As the latest wave of comments with Russian URLs sweeps over this blog, I can’t help but feeling slightly & irrationally flattered - especially when the comments are as poetic as this one:
“Thanks for poem, I entirely much liked your newest post. I muse on you should despatch more time, you without a doubt father natural skill as a remedy for blogging!”
I’ll keep my blog moderated, though.
Keeping my transmedia literacies steady and surfing the web I just browsed the San Diego Zoo website for a visit tomorrow. So I stumbled via the San Diego Zoo over koalas to this picture, embedded in a Japanese newsletter for the Cairn Zoo in Australia.
After I readily set the photo as my new desktop picture (too cute!), it occurred to me that this photo could be faked (too cute, right?). So I went back to the Japanese site and tried to get some context. Just one problem: all in Japanese. Not with: google translate.
I copied the capture above the picture:
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and it translates to:
Parents can be found at Corner House koala koala park.
When you shoot a baby koala, so flash is prohibited, please take precautions.
Seems authentic to me 
Was worth the search. And because Japanese websites are just full of cuties, here’s another one:
The TV-show Castle, Season 1 Episode 5 (”Little Girl Lost”) is about the kidnapping of an 8 year old girl. The ransom delivery is taking place at foyer of a business complex. The 75′000 dollars were requested to be dropped in a specified gray-yellow backpack to the corner of a shoe polish stand (in the picture: Castle delivering the ransom).
The kidnapper disguised his pick-up with an ImprovEverywhere-like performance art stunt. He had placed an ad on Craiglist for a performance art piece for YouTube, asking people to gather at the lobby wearing the same backpack. Of course the police fell for the game.
I am much looking forward to study @LOST University this winter.
I’m a bit concerned about ABC putting extra/early content out for Season 5 blue-ray disk buyers (an information that I stumbled upon AFTER I signed in to the game). Player segregation is something I wasn’t fond of before playing Purity Towers and much less since then.