Wow. Now there’s a cute little penguin shaped USB flash drive. It has a flip-top head to expose the USB connector. If this little guy wasn’t ridiculously priced at $63, I’d want to jump all over it and order one. Novelty is one thing but still.
[via GeekStuff4U]
Entries from January 2008
January 23, 2008
Penguiny USB Flash Drive
January 20, 2008
Penguin Awareness Day
Staying in line with my post last year, I’d like to say, “Happy Penguin Awareness Day!” It’s that time of year again to learn about things of the spheniscidae (pronounced sven-is-ki-di) nature.
Wear penguin-y colors. Maybe black pants with a white shirt?
If you can, go see some penguins. This may be at [...]
January 17, 2008
Antarctica’s penguin poo sleuths
LOUISE Emmerson has spent the past five years in a Hobart laboratory preoccupied with understanding the lives of Antarctic Adelie penguins. But it was only a few days ago that she finally saw the real thing waddle into view across the ice. It was love.
Perched quietly amid the Antarctic equivalent of chattering suburbia, a crowded [...]
January 16, 2008
New Gentoo Chicks at Newport Aquarium
The Newport Aquarium in northern Kentucky has announced that two Gentoo chicks were hatched last month, one on December 3rd and another on December 24th. Both are awesome additions to my favorite part of the aquarium. I’ll be sure to tell my 5 year old daughter that one of the chicks shares her birthday (12/24). [...]
January 11, 2008
London Zoo penguin head count
The Telegraph has pictures of the London Zoo’s bird keeper taking a head count of their 40 African penguins and 4 Rockhoppers. Each of them have names but that doesn’t make it any easier, I bet. I’m sure they use a system of descriptions and pictures to sort them all out along with the bands [...]
January 7, 2008
Penguins in Black & White
David Vaynor Evans of Antarctic Diary took some really nice black & white shots using an old fashioned manual camera (read not DSLR). Check out the rest of the pictures on their site. They are phenomenal shots with no Photoshop touch-ups.
