The h2g2 Post 12.08.24

Created Jul 2, 2024 | Updated 6 Weeks Ago

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Posted: 12^th August 2024

This week's title is Vantage Points. Clockwise from upper left: Closeup of a grasshopper, long shot of a nearly-empty mall, closeup of swann in water grooming, a field of purple flax, a wet, happy, black dog on a rock, the front steps and ornate entry facade of the Brookville, Pennsylvania newspaper office, a historic building, and a male zebra finch sitting on eggs in his nest.

The other night, I was watching a relatively old movie (from the 1990s) about a bunch of New York City newspaper people. They broke a big story and ran down to the press room.

'Go ahead!' said one of them to the other. 'Go ahead and say it. Admit it: you've wanted to say it all your life.'

'Okay,' says Michael Keaton. 'STOP THE PRESSES!'

I was just about to sit down to this editorial introduction when I got a 'stop-press' story.

Stopping the presses isn't nearly as much fun when you're the presses – but hey, it's easier online. And this is a good story. And it involves New York City.

So please read FWR's report, called 'The Kindness of Strangers'. And if anybody knows anybody who was on that ferry, please pass on this piece of good news.

Now back to the regularly-scheduled mayhem.

Galaxy Babe has gorgeous swan photos. Swans are at one and the same time spectacularly beautiful creatures and ferocious menaces that will take a bite out of you as soon as look at you. The nightmare birds of all dachshunds. The cassowaries of Europe. Go enjoy the pretty pictures.

I report from bustling Hooverville and environs. Marvel at the local mall, which would be a good place to stage a meditation marathon. Study the recruiting posters. Then over to Brookville to appreciate some architecture.

Tavaron has a home bird report: she's got some rare budgies. Also, her zebra finches obviously believe in gender equality. You saw it here, folks.

Paigetheoracle shares spectacular views from Scottish waters. He also has a tongue-in-cheek meteorological report, plus other things of interest.

There's cinema, a quiz, some more comical comics stuff, and the usual nonsense from me.

Please read, view, comment, share. And don't forget to send Stuff so we know where you've been, whom you've met, and what you've seen, heard, and done! (Unless it violated international law.)

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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Quote of the Week:
There's 135,000 humpback whales in the wild, up from just 5,000 in the 1960s. entire rivers like the Thames have sprung back to life after being declared 'biologically dead.' Life has a remarkable power to heal and grow if we stop destroying it.

James Palmer