My older brother spent the moon landing jumping out of his cot and giving himself concussion. You could say he got caught up in the moment.

One clumsy bounce for babykind...

Tiny Dwarf Goat Surfs On The Back Of A Sheep (VIDEO)

Beware of the blob, Kristin and Drew!

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities

Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.

Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing.

Nobody knows for sure what the gunk is, but Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer says the Coast Guard is sure what it is not.

"It's certainly biological," Hasenauer said. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter.

"It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism."

Something else: No one in Barrow or Wainwright can remember seeing anything like this before, Brower said.

"That's one of the reasons we went out, because in recent history I don't think we've seen anything like this," he said. "Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...

"If it was something we'd seen before, we'd be able to say something about it. But we haven't ...which prompted concerns from the local hunters and whaling captains."

The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, Brower said.

"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department.

"It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it," he said.

EWWW.

I ated too much.

msbelle, that post just caught someone's attention!

Homemade oatmeal stout and Heath Bar ice cream

Oh brave new world, that has such snack foods in't!

Ha ha ha. I showed my co-worker the story on The Blob, and she said, "It's still a UFO, huh?"

"It's not flying," I said.

She replied, "It's floating!"

Huge collection of Star Trek memorabilia for sale: [link]

This is one of the older (and more expensive) items: 1967 Hasbro Star Trek Paint by Numbers-MINT Sealed!!

Price: US $1,799.99

Have we discussed the Roller-Saking Babies here? [link] I feel like I ought to think it's horrifying, but instead I find it charming and kind of love it.

Have we discussed the Roller-Saking Babies here?

Yeah, I linked to it a while back....