If you ever need someone to photograph your pets then try Jill Greenberg over at Manipulator. Then again, not many of us have ligers or baboons running around in the backyard. Although I did see some dogs and Arnold Schwarzenegger on her website.

My wife doesn’t know it yet, but I’m getting this bike. Don’t worry baby, there’s room on the back!

This is how I plan to warm up my bike every morning.

This is a freakin’ bug. Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton, a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata; a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, one to three simple eyes (”ocelli“) and three sets of variously modified appendages that form the mouthparts. The thorax has six segmented legs (one pair each for the prothorax, mesothorax and the metathorax segments making up the thorax) and two or four wings (if present in the species). The abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may be reduced or fused) has most of the digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive internal structures.

Because I think she would like this one.