"About six weeks ago at a zoo in Sochi, Russia, an Amur tiger - one of the rarest tigers on the planet - gave birth to a pair of cubs. The zoo, of course, was thrilled, but its joy soon faded - the mother wouldn't feed her babies. Fortunately, the zoo found a woman, Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei Cleopatra had recently had a litter of puppies. Cleopatra immediately accepted the tiger cubs as her own, and began nursing them.
Now the Amur cubs, dubbed Clyopa and Plyusha, think they're dogs."
posted by davidjmcgee
on Jul 10, 2012 -
116 comments
Haw Par Villa, also known as
Tiger Balm Gardens, was quite possibly the
weirdest theme park on the planet. The first park was built in Hong Kong in the 30s, soon followed by another in Singapore. Built by brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par, who made their fortunes selling
Tiger Balm, the park was really a sculpture garden devoted to all aspects of
Chinese mythology. Weirdest and most surreal of all was the section of the park which depicted the the
10 levels of
Buddhist hell, featuring demons
dismembering sinners, and is best described as "if Heironymus Bosch built a putt putt course."
posted by puny human
on Jun 20, 2011 -
30 comments
David Wu will cut you, with his claws. Representative David Wu (D-OR) sends out pictures of himself in a tiger costume, his staffers wonder about his mental state; he denies any issues claiming he feels
GRRRRREAT! (scroll down on the MSNBC page for tigery picture goodness).
[more inside]
posted by aloiv2
on Feb 23, 2011 -
62 comments
Amari's
video for their song Tiger is a voyage through some vintage 80's scifi.
posted by euphorb
on May 14, 2010 -
22 comments
Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf today, teeing off at the
Masters at 1:42 EDT today. ESPN will carry the tee shot live, then begin full coverage at 3 PM. Last time Tiger returned from a long break due to surgery, Nike's ad was
lighthearted. This time, things are very different, and the
new ad released yesterday definitely has a different tone, invoking the words of Tiger's late father, Earl Woods. Of course, some in the media are going to keep teeing off on Tiger's scandalous affairs, including this
new revelation of a tryst with a neighbor's 21-year-old daughter.
posted by msacheson
on Apr 8, 2010 -
119 comments
Today's the day for
Mac OS X Tiger (10.4). Operating systems have
come a long way,
baby (what about the
future?), and Tiger presents a couple of features that are worthy of mention because of their design approach. The approach is to let
"tiny-scale developers," developers that might not be able to write an entire application, even a small one, develop plug-ins and extensions for core system functionality.
Dashboard has a budding user community (check
dashboard exposed,
apple's official gallery) as does
Spotlight (and not just a way to add filetypes, check
this out!) and
Automator. It's interesting to note that the most hyped features of the new operating system will all have
end-user-submitted extensions and additions making them even more essential.
posted by zpousman
on Apr 30, 2005 -
44 comments
If it didn't happen on national television [wmv] (
mirror [wmv]) you would have thought it was faked like that
LeBron ad.
Well if
Wieden+Kennedy isn't already working on it, they surely
will be shortly. "... they have a
Nike-sponsored golfer wearing a Nike shirt, a Nike hat, Nike golf shoes, using Nike clubs, held in hands covered by Nike gloves, hitting a Nike prototype golf ball that was chipped onto the green, rolled, turned, rolled some more, then teetered on the edge of the cup with that Nike "Swoosh" turning and facing the television cameras for a full 1.5 seconds."
posted by pwb503
on Apr 12, 2005 -
59 comments
The
lion shall lay down with the lamb. But
first, it shall lay down with the tiger, the leopard, and the jaguar. And
then smaller cats will lay down with different smaller cats, and
then there are those gazelles and bears that were always hard enough to tell apart anyway, well, now we can't seem to keep them apart. Long live the
anomalous felids!
posted by breezeway
on Mar 3, 2005 -
17 comments
20 years ago (the year I moved to Detroit), the
Tigers won the World Series. What should have been a proud moment for a city such as Motown quickly deteriorated, culminating in
this photograph of fan
Bubba Helms, which came to symbolize the riots that ensued (he later died of an overdose, following a failed suicide, broken marriage, mental illness, and addiction). Having a tradition of arson (
Devil's Night), (
1), (
2), during which some residents have
burned houses while others
protected,
bustin' caps to celebrate the New Year, and uneasy
race relations may have contributed, though sports psychologists point to
deindividuation (and
booze) when seeking to explain
hooliganism over the home team's victory.
posted by adampsyche
on Oct 11, 2004 -
12 comments
There has been a
sharp rise in interest in exotic pets nationwide. Some people get exotic animals because they think it will be cool or because they saw one on Animal Planet. "I think there's more
tigers in the U.S than there are in India or Russia."
posted by stbalbach
on Oct 6, 2003 -
10 comments
