This will hurt me...

Grass. Geilston Bay. July 2012. This Sunday, my top five is one of a more personal nature. Yes, My Top Five Pertinent Numbers That Occur In My RSS Feeds! From my 219 Google Reader RSS subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,238 items and clicked 716 items. Since November 2008 I have read a total of 84,289 items. And, would you believe it, not ONE LOL cat amongst them!

I’m not going to lie to you, I like penguins. I especially like it when they gather in large groups.

I was browsing Flickr and came across a photo that I like very much, taken this winter in Skegness (in the UK). Apparently the duck was skating across the ice. I guess this isn't such a big deal if you're from somewhere really cold, but we don't get much of this in Hobart.

One of my new favourite websites is the always magnificent English Russia . The motto of the good people behind the website is "just because something cool happens daily on one sixth of the Earth surface". The other day, no doubt inspired by election fever in Russia , they posted some posters from Russian elections held in the 1990s, but mainly from Presidential Elections. One picture appealed to me in particular: I am told that the banner reads: Youth choose Zyuganov Now, for those of you wondering, the honey in the poster is Gennady Zyuganov, who has occupied the somewhat incongruous position as leader of the new Communist Party of the Russian Federation in post-communist Russia. You can see why the kids would all be rushing out to support Zyuganov; because he really is one cool looking cat! FYI, in the first round of the 1996 Presidential election –an election that I best associate with ' Mad Vlad' Zhirinovsky – Zyuganov finished second with 32%, trailing only Y...

Go on, have a guess at what this is a picture of:   For the answer, visit this link . I think that this is very cool indeed.

Here is what I think is a rather cool picture of a vessel battling through heavy seas. Dark Roasted Blend has posted this pic and a whole lot more in their "Ships versus Waves Spectacular" .