Modified from http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/03/19/funny-pictures-joy-elephant/

Tags: cool, funny, gip, happiness

I keep thinking I've seen the ultimate lolcat spinoff.

I keep being wrong.

http://community.livejournal.com/lolgaimans/

Tags: cats, gip, memesheepage

Rushes to be the five millionth person to make a Baby Dumbo Octopus LJ icon...

(Pic recently seen in Cute Overload. Photo from The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian, via a New York Times review, free registration required. And if you go to the NYT review, be sure to look at the additional photos for the Ping Pong Tree Sponge.)

Tags: gip

Via suzimoses, I learn that scientists have created mouse-human hybrids...well OK, the only hybrid part is a set of genes coding for human-type trichromatic color vision, otherwise they are mice.

Carl Zimmer's blog The Loom (syndicated at carlzimmer) contains an interesting discussion of the result - the mice's brains can actually interpret what they are seeing, even though their brains aren't specifically designed to interpret the extra color information.

http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/03/22/said_the_mouse_to_the_other_mo.php

Also it contains an image I couldn't resist iconifying.

Tags: cool, gip, science