It turns out that chameleons’ tongues give them a natural advantage over other lizards.

Their tongues work roughly like a cross between a catapult and an collapsable fishing pole. This means that they don’t use their muscles to launch the tongue, but they use them when reeling it back in.

This is significant because lizards are slow and sluggish when cold because their muscles are less effective. Not the chameleons tongue though, so he can get a late or early snack just as easily as at noon.

You can read the full article here:
www.newscientist.com

And here’s more on the workings of the tongue:
www.nationalgeographic.com

Cheers!
//The Dude

There’s something HUGE going down! For the first time in our blogging history, we’re having a COMPETITION. Yeah, it’s true. A competition. What can you win? A super-nerdy classy LED wristwatch from Runns webshop (that they so sweetly named “The Singularity”). This competition goes on for 3 weeks (from the 8th of March to the 29th of March). What do you need to do to be able to win this price? Ah, our dear apprentice, here’s the instructions:

1. Go to FaceBook and join this page: “Runns Webshop – www.Runns.se” (just make a search in the search field on FaceBook to find the page). If you do not join this page, you will automatcally be disqualified from the competition.
2. Answer this question: How many binary numerals are there in total?
3. Go to the following webpage (the answer can be found in the product description): http://tinyurl.com/y99czb7
4. E-mail your name, surname, adress, postal code, city, country, and telephone number together with your answer to: geekscorner@madeinmalmo.se
5. The winner will be notified on the 30th of March, and can expect to receive their price within 2 weeks from Runns webshop.

LED - The Singularity

LED - The Singularity

May the force be with you!
//The Dude and Dudette
PS: Don’t forget to invite your friends to this competition; the more, the merrier! DS.

So I got an invitation on all our truly beloved FaceBook to “The International Day of Awesomness” featuring approxiamately 5321 guests from around the globe. How awesome isin’t that? Anywho. To celebrate this severely cool day, all you need is to strut your stuff as if you were the most awesome thing walking around (I know I am, so I will).

For those with difficulties figuring out their awesomeness, you should check out this periodic table. It’ll definitely rise your awesome-factor! I can’t help but ask… Awesome, isin’t it? Just click on the picture or follow the source below to be able to check out all the sweet details.

Table of Awesomenents

Source: http://pixelbits.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/tblofawesome.jpg

//The Dudette

There’s cosplay, and there’s this. It’s insane…

Link: iheartchaos.com

//The Dude

…while being eaten by a snake!

It’s cute too! At least I think so

He looks a bit hissy, showing off those colorful stripes on his chins. I guess he don’t like being messed with, hehe!

“A new species of chameleon, measuring just 6 inches from snout to tail, has been discovered in east Tanzania’s mountains.”

Read More at Wired Science

//The Dude

That’s it…

No more Jolt Cola.

Ever.

Thanks to some investment firm driving them into the ground so that they could buy them out on the cheap.

So here’s a hearty f**k you to corporate scum!

Link: Democrat and Chronicle

//The Dude is mad

We’re trying to make our blog a better place to be. What more, we’re also trying to make it easier for all our readers out there to share nerdisms with friends, foes, and those who are something in between. Just click the headline of the article you find interesting. What else? Well, at the end of each article you’ll find loads of buttons to clicketi-click on.

Let the sharing commence – spread the nerdisms!

//The Dudette

…For all your contributions in the field of music.

Jazz guitar virtuoso and prolific inventor, Les Paul has passed away at the age of 94.
I’m going to go home today and squeeze my eponymous guitar

//The Dude

Read more at The Register