MetaFilter posts tagged with Penguins

Expeditions to the Polar Regions

netbros — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:49 -0800

The Polar Discovery team has documented science in action from pole to pole during the historic 2007-2009 International Polar Year, and covered five scientific expeditions. The science projects explored a range of topics from climate change and glaciers, to Earth’s geology, biology, ocean chemistry, circulation, and technology at the icy ends of the earth. Through photo essays and other multimedia, they explain how scientists collected data and what they discovered about the rapidly changing polar regions. From the awesome folks at WHOI.

Suck my exhaust, "Happy Feet"!

Decimask — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:35:41 -0800

Saturday Flash Hangover: Help a penguin Learn to Fly and scratch "flighless bird" from that stupid wikipedia article. The comments thread has spoilers, so I'll add [via RockPaperShotgun] below the fold. One of the commentors at RPS linked to the bittersweet animated short Kiwi! [previously] [previouslier], which is an extra helping of *sniffle* on an extra-blue day on the Blue, so you may want to skip that.

Sometimes the present is just like the future was supposed to be

Kattullus — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:30:09 -0800

Robot penguins of the water and air are manufactured by German robotics manufacturer Festo, as well as aquatic and airborn rays (as in the fish). Here's another aquapenguin video from Festo's YouTube channel. These videos are so futuristic they don't seem real. [via, fittingly enough, William Gibson's Twitterfeed]

Antarctica: It's a Cool Place!

Kattullus — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:39:56 -0800

Cool Antarctica is a site dedicated to all things Antarctic. There are pictures (penguins), videos (including, among much else, an old documentary about Edmund Hillary's and Vivian Fuchs' Transantarctic Expedition), a history section focusing on the famous explorers (e.g. Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton, Charcot and de Gerlache) and a fact file, which includes what may be my favorite section, an Antarctic slang dictionary (degomble: removing snow that's stuck to clothing before going inside - monk-on: a term for being in a bad, usually introspective mood, "he's got a monk-on" - poppy: alcoholic beverage that is chilled with natural Antarctic ice). All this is but a taster of what's on the website.

Antarctic Fox

mathowie — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:47:41 -0800

Antarctica travel blog, done Big Picture style. Kevin Fox, formerly a designer at Yahoo and Google (who wrote a great response to Doug Bowman's design-by-metrics post) took a trip to Antarctica a couple months back and has been slowly updating a mini-site, exhaustively describing and showing photos from each part of each day he was down there. There are icebergs. There are penguins. There is swimming. There is drinking. It's all done in a wonderful large image Big Picture style that makes me drop everything whenever the feed updates. Start at the top and read the whole way through.

Photographs of polar explorations 1845-1960

Lanark — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:52:04 -0800

Freeze Frame a new collection of over 20,000 photographs of British and international polar explorations from 1845-1960, from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. A few favourites: Bear cub, Penguins, Mooring on the ice, Glaciers, Icebergs, Caves, Ice Floe, Ranulph Fiennes, Sled dogs, BiPlane - related book, more: coloured icebergs, PictureAustralia.org [Previously]

Penguins in Santa outfits playing in the snow!

hermitosis — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:39:19 -0800

Penguins in Santa outfits playing in the snow!

Plenty Butter! Plenty Syrup! Very Good!

not_on_display — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:28 -0800

YouTubing this clip of Smedley serving Chilly Willy a tall stack of pancakes [More butter? More butter! More syrup? More syrup! Nice? Very nice!] led me to Chilly's Video Den at Chilly Willy's Sub-Arctic World. [Warning: Comic Sans font and a whole cold-butt-load of .wmv's] Chilly Willy was the creation of Walter Lantz (1900-1994), who also gave us Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. Hachoo!

Penguins can fly!

bigskyguy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:13:21 -0800

Penguins can fly. And a very happy Poisson d'Avril to you and yours.

Pigloo just wants to get to the beach

Stynxno — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:12:24 -0800

Ca Plane Pour Pigloo [youtube]

Fun With Pingu

Stynxno — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:15:09 -0800

Arise ye criminals of want... [all youtube]

Every lady loves a sharp dressed man

Stynxno — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:09:57 -0800

GIANT PENGUINS! The discovery in 2005 of fossils in Peru is challenging previous views about the evolution of penguins. They were tall, fast, and enjoyed being smacked by cavemen*.

* may not be true

Penguins of love

imperium — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:40:23 -0800

Penguins. Famed for their romantic bonding (? & ?), their defiance of stereotypes, their passion, and their parenting skills, they're now helping us out with our love lifes. (previously 1, 2, 3 etc)

Do penguins fly?

homunculus — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:54:13 -0800

Planktoon 3D Animation. [Via Monkey Filter via Ample Sanity.]

Precipitous Penguin Populations

stbalbach — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:34:14 -0800

Unhappy Feet. Penguin populations around the world are crashing. Biologists are mystified but suspect warmer oceans caused by global warming is reducing available food.

Penguins With Angst

jonson — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:13:41 -0800

Penguins With Angst is the visual tale of a group of hoodlum penguins who vandalize a grain silo & threaten the life of Santa Claus. Easter Sacrifice is a photostory of the kidnapping of the Easter Bunny & his eventual decapitation by the Dove of Peace. Both art projects courtesy of Exclusionary, the online gallery of Jasper Thomas' work.

Penguins

hard rain — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:34:57 -0800

Penguins offer evidence of global warming another indicator of climate change.

You spell 'honor' like a Brit!

Serial Killer Slumber Party — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:12:54 -0800

Spinner Disk A flash site with Einstein, penguins, ninjas, narwhals and a dinosaur. What more could one want?

Geek Life, Illustrated

yankeefog — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:23:36 -0800

Mike Russell's CulturePulp is a rare example of journalism through comics. Driven by a love of obsessive, slightly geeky subcultures, the Portland-based reporter/cartoonist offers probing answers to such vital questions as Are pirates the new ninjas? What would Tom Jones do? How do you feed a penguin? And which donut shop is best-suited for a voodoo-themed wedding

"Speaks strange language? Check. Ethnic-style dress? Check. Very suspicious".

matteo — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:36:10 -0800

Terrorists from Antarctica. Two Seaworld penguins flying out of San Diego airport are sent walking through the metal detector. Better safe than sorry. via BoingBoing, via Schneier

from gape-jawed neophyte to crusty codger

breezeway — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:16:08 -0800

Images of Antarctica: "some of them are mundane, some are fantastic, and some are, frankly, crappy." Don't miss the art page.

Headlines you thought you'd never see #6,413

kcds — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:14:03 -0800

Gay outrage over penguin sex test BBC News is reporting that gay rights activists are protesting the plans of a zoo in northern Germany to test the sexual orientation of "six male penguins which have displayed homosexual traits". Omitted from the BBC article is a summary of what the protesters are actually concerned about, but The Scotsman is there.

Friday Fun - early

sparky — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:22:49 -0800

Friday Fun Might as well be Friday, really, especially in Texas where we're shutting down the state due to snow. Here's a fun, free online game where you can make penguins dive all day long without getting tired (you OR them). Highly reminiscent of playing too hard for too long doing the same thing over and over when you were a kid, except you don't have to wait for your turn. Or come home in wet, cold clothes crying. You're Everypenguin.

This flash friday, it is still fun?

garethspor — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:51:31 -0800

ai pengo: flash friday goodness
based on the arcade classic: Pengo.

a penguin love story

digaman — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:29:04 -0800

Birds do it, bees do it... homosexual attachment and lovemaking are widespread in the animal kingdom, say biologists like Bruce Bagemihl, author of "Biological Exuberance." [For a longer, better-edited version of the same article, go here, but NYT reg. required.] Not everyone agrees, particularly those apt to quote the Bible to justify claims of a "natural revulsion to perverse sex."