Peddling Zoroastrian Swatters Since 738
I have a huge bug up my butt. (Space Nakji, do NOT click that link. I'm warning you.) I feel a powerful urge to totally and completely redesign this site, including getting the fuck off of blogger. Mostly this means that I will be ripping off dooce.com, but still. This thing is getting stale.
I recently received certification as a Certified Usability Analyst, and I've always enjoyed graphic design and tinkering with code, so I think it's time I got off my ass and made something a little nicer than what you're looking at now. We're talking changing mastheads, categories for posts, photo galleries, and maybe even a plugin that lets you remotely shoot Brian Peppers with a tranquilizer dart.
In other news (it's two for one day!), a researcher at Cornell named Daniel Riskin recently discovered that vampire bats are excellent runners. How did he determine this? He put them on treadmills, of course. Not just vampire bats, though - he gave several flavors of bats equal time on the treadmill... sometimes with sort of sad results:
The least effective of them "just smack their wings against the ground and freak out," never successfully taking a step, he says.
Other species can shuffle. "The typical bat can get from A to B, but it looks really clumsy while it does it," Riskin says.
In contrast, he ranks the ground-traversing skills of vampire bats as "off-the-scale good." The 8-centimeter-long animals move nimbly in any direction, easily making the transition from ground to air movement. They can jump into flight from a standing start in some 30 milliseconds. "
Moral of the story? Don't fuck with vampire bats.
I recently received certification as a Certified Usability Analyst, and I've always enjoyed graphic design and tinkering with code, so I think it's time I got off my ass and made something a little nicer than what you're looking at now. We're talking changing mastheads, categories for posts, photo galleries, and maybe even a plugin that lets you remotely shoot Brian Peppers with a tranquilizer dart.
In other news (it's two for one day!), a researcher at Cornell named Daniel Riskin recently discovered that vampire bats are excellent runners. How did he determine this? He put them on treadmills, of course. Not just vampire bats, though - he gave several flavors of bats equal time on the treadmill... sometimes with sort of sad results:
The least effective of them "just smack their wings against the ground and freak out," never successfully taking a step, he says.
Other species can shuffle. "The typical bat can get from A to B, but it looks really clumsy while it does it," Riskin says.
In contrast, he ranks the ground-traversing skills of vampire bats as "off-the-scale good." The 8-centimeter-long animals move nimbly in any direction, easily making the transition from ground to air movement. They can jump into flight from a standing start in some 30 milliseconds. "
Moral of the story? Don't fuck with vampire bats.
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