hobolinks :: September :: 2007

Among them a white-lipped snake and a leafless, fungal orchid. Are all orchids fungus? Weird…

Mostly for myself: a nice script that displays all of Google’s map icons. They’ve added some nice ones.

My discovery today is a site with some nice little hits of climbing video to get you through that after-lunch craving: Momentum Video Magazine. There’s a feature on Vedauwoo night bouldering in the current issue…

Jason of Expedition 360 is nearing the end of his 15-year saga, and has posted some of his reactions. I know from much smaller journeys that the end is like a taste of death, and I’m feeling sympathy for him.

Tom Dilts has illustrated beyond a doubt where the best places in the US for climbing are. Now we need them for each season!

(Via GOBlog)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many is this worth?

Would I post a link to Men’s Journal here? No, I just can’t. But their adventure quiz is too hilarious to resist, so take a quick side visit to The Adventure Blog to find it.

This must be a sign of our incredible trend toward monocultures in worldwide agriculture – the first global survey of livestock breeds reports that one goes extinct every month. That’s more extinctions by far than I’ve seen reported anywhere else.

I found an account of a homeless person who was apparently well-liked in his neighborhood and employed, but he committed the crime of camping on public land, was raided by the police, and disappeared.