Now, about the second photo. You know I love cats. In fact, I have a peaceful coexistence agreement with a cat in my, er, his house. But as a member of People Against Unethical Treatment of Vegetables, Plants and Pebbles (littlepebble, that’s my potter name), I must protest this barbarity: a blade of grass was being chewed to death while still alive. And like I told those viscious vegetarians, put yourself in a vegetable’s position and imagine what a horrible death it is to suffer…to die like that – chewed to death in some human’s or some cat’s mouth. And lest someone doubt me, I refer them to that wonderful book, The Autobiography Of A Yogi, where some guy who once won a Nobel prize in physics, which by the way should be abolished, but that’s for another post…in any case, where was I, oh, some guy named Bose demonstrated that plants have feelings too. I mean, if you have ever watched that movie, “What the Bloop Is This All About…” you’d know that even water and ice have feelings too.

So, in any case, I have to say that the second photo, as much as I adore cats, went beyond the boundaries of decency.

Via Science Daily, new studies show these little guys stress out over newborn infants because that’s when predators usually attack. See Lemurs: Secret Social Drama Among Humanity’s Distant Cousins. Kind of like how I stress out whenever a new bailout is born, it’s an invitation for the predators to attack.

I don’t know how it’d be done (coding-wise, or if there is an existing method), but it seems like there must be an easy way to create a field (similar to a comment/contact field on any website), which would help you keep a tally of LINKS submitted for consideration. Basically, a comment field like this one, with extra inputs for “Submitter’s Name, Article Title, Source/Publisher, url link, Submitter’s brief comment.” The field title’s could be tinkered with to automatically not appear (submitter comments) and/or be relabeled (hat tips.)

As administrator, you’d be able to browse and launch from this ‘private’ list, and have the option to select a ‘box’ beside each worthy link, making it visible to the public. If there isn’t an easily way to make this altered comment forum into a regular post with a little click, you could always just copy/paste the html text (usually viewable/accessible at the edit/preview stage of posting) of the vetted links into a new blog post.

That sounds a bit more difficult than I bet it’d be, certainly easier than filtering through emails and comments, then hunting again to assign hat tips.

A better worded explanation (or visual mock-up/sketch) might be worth briefly posting, to see if any html/rss-savvy readers can cook something up, or at least point you in the right direction.