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A female sacculina begins life as a tiny free-floating slug in the sea, drifting around until she encounters a crab. When that fateful day arrives, she finds a chink in the crab’s armor (usually an elbow or leg joint) and thrusts a kind of hollow dagger into its body. After that, she (how to put this?) ‘injects’ herself into the crab, sluicing through the dagger and leaving behind a husk. Once inside, the jellylike sacculina starts to take over. She grows ‘roots’ that extend to every part of the crab’s body — wrapping around its eyestalks and deep into its legs and arms. The female feeds and grows until eventually she pops out of the top of the crab, and from this knobby protrusion, she will steer the Good Ship Unlucky Crab for the rest of their co-mingled life. Link(Thanks, Frank!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

I’m bringing sexy bark!: “Xeni Jardin:
That’s what Justin Timberlake might say if he were responsible for these suggestive images from nature. But he’s not. I’m not sure who shot them, but they’re blogged with Japanese text by someone named Hiro. Here’s what Hiro says, in babelfish botglish:

‘Sexy which can be made natural it is photograph collection of the thing.
It makes good.’

I’m pretty sure they are unretouched. Even the hot carrot, which makes good. Link (Thanks, Seth Abramovitch)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

When mannequins attack: “David Pescovitz:
A woman is suing JC Penney Co. after a mannequin’s arm snapped off and knocked her in the head, cutting her scalp, cracking a tooth, and causing other injuries. The incident occurred when a salesperson at the Westiminster Mall store attempted to remove the mannequin’s shirt which the plaintiff wanted to purchase. Apparently, mannequins can be quite dangerous…Link(Thanks, Paul Saffo!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)