bunrab | Words go past my eyes all day

and now they go past yours via Twitter:

16:12 headline: In Beijing, world leaders pledge broad reform of financial system (oh yeah, totalitarian communist capital is the place for that) #
16:25 headline: Cellphones drive jump in 911 use/ sidebar; McCain's brother quits campaign activities & apologizes for cursing in a 911 call... #
16:45 sign on portable storage pod: 1-800-PACKRAT #
16:47 (even in the rain, the maple trees are beautiful) #
21:03 illustration caption: White-winged vampire bat snuggles up to a hen's brood patch, a region rich in surface blood vessels that functions... #
21:04 ... to warm eggs or chicks. By mimicking chick behavior, the bat lulls the bird into a relaxed state, then feeds on the hen's blood. #
21:24 book excerpt in Natural History_Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures_ by Bill Schutt #
21:33 of possible interest to Biker Skum: _The Paradise of All These Parts; A Natural History of Boston_ by John Hanson Mitchell #
22:51 "Cattle probably gave rise to the measles and tuberculosis. Smallpox is likely to have come from camels, biologists say." #