Zooillogix, one of the large fact-farm which is ScienceBlogs, publishes a weekly readers’ poll of favorite animals

. It’s bad enough to ask science types what they think – always bound to start trouble. But to ask them what they like? Here are some of the recent submissions. Res ipsa loquitur.

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See the rest here at Zooillogix.

For those of you complaining that this is off-topic – you’re right. Sue me.

Aaron Henderson, formerly a dancer with the Streb Laboratory for Action Mechanics, and its video production designer (and wearer, I believe, of several other hats there), has decamped for Chicago, getting an MFA at the Art Institute – and he’s got a great website:

AaronHenderson.Com

Just came across the very clever blog, Brad’s Sketchpad,  which is not  connected to the  excellent  actor Brad Dourif, the funny Brad Garrett , or the city Brad, which is located in Romania.

It belongs to Brad Stone, a technology writer for the Times, my hometown paper. And he seems to be channeling Gary Larsen, the Far Side cartoonist. Or so it appears; my understanding was that the Times had a rule against cartoonists appearing in the newsroom, often misunderstood simply as a reluctance to publish Doonesbury or other cartoons. So maybe he’s just swiped the real Brad Stone’s identity. If so, watch the Times’ tech blog, Bits , for an interesting series on identity theft.

Not me, though. If I were going to be impersonating someone at the Times – and I could pull it off – Maureen Dowd. The Popular Logistics Board of Estimates has concluded that she’s probably having more fun than anyone else there. Like Rosalind Russell but without the hats.