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When we last left this matchup, we were deadlocked at 1 to 1 as the moderator cited the need for “further tests… to determine the range, power, and accuracy of Unicorn horn lightning bolts.”

After painstaking research, the matchup resumes thanks to this rare and telling photograph.

It seems that it is rainbows and not lightning bolts that unicorns shoot out of their horns. From this photo, we can also determine that the trajectory of the beam is straight and true (if one assumes that Robocop’s computer-guided targeting is accurate and, of course, we do).

As for the effects of this beam, the photo does not give evidence.  However, we may infer that the unicorn’s position beside Robocop indicates a partnership between the two (note that the Unicorn, or UniCop, is protecting Robocop’s exposed backside from counter attack).   Robocop’s acceptance of this arrangement suggests that Robocop values the unicorn’s effectiveness in battle: no small endorsement coming from such a decorated police officer.

The lions have charged that the photo tells another story: that the unicorn’s rainbow is a passive rather than aggressive spell, and the unicorn is protecting the object(s) of Robocop’s unwavering justice from harm and/or healing their wounds.

Both interpretations could be possible where it not for further evidence of the Robocop/Unicop partnership, captured by an amateur wildlife photographer equipped with a Nikon Watercolor2000 with a 15x zoom lens.

The moderator therefore declares that the category “One on One Battle” go to the Unicorns, making the final score: Unicorns 2, Lions 1. 

Congratulations, Unicorns, you move on to Round 2… just as soon as we break the tie between Dinosaurs and Princesses.  

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In the last decade there have been less then 10 cases of a mountain lion attacking a human in Wyoming.  It’s unusual as mountain lions tend to shy away from humans.

Dustin Britton was camping in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, gathering and cutting some firewood for his camp when he noticed the mountain lion stalking him.  He tried to back away but the lion attacked him.  He defended himself with the only thing he had with him of any size, his chainsaw.

Dustin said it was like a full grown man had tried to tackle him.  The chainsaw apparently grazed the lion in the shoulder laying open a wound.  It retreated after being injured.

Dustin only suffered a small puncture on his arm, other than that he was fine.  Dustin, a former marine, is lucky to escape with such minor injuries.

Authorities killed the lion after it killed one of the dogs that tracked it down.  Authorities said the lion was only 4 or 5 years old and was in a state of severe starvation.

Dustin. buddy…you get my vote for the Chuck Norris Award of the Year.

Are you watching wynflete's winsome and heart warming Nerd Fighter: Australia videos featuring John and Hank Green's secret niece and nephew, Natalie and Calvin? Debbie is so creative. Her videos sneak up on you, take your hand and make you want to go skipping down the street.

She took John Green's Nerdfighter song and embellished it to become: "Nerdfighter Live." My family falls into almost every category of nerdfighter she (and John) thought of. Also, do not miss Nerdfighter Storytime.




...and thanks to Arthur Slade, I've discovered a new (to me) musical group, Arrogant Worms. Their song "It's Great to be a Nerd" also tracks our entwood rather precisely.

I found clips from the forthcoming documentary Rock & Roll Mamas, which promises to showcase "the struggles and triumphs of both emerging and established rock stars who are also mothers" via a link at Babble.com. You can view clips on YouTube of notable female rock luminaries such as Suzanne Vega, Corin Tucker (ex of Sleater-Kinney), Zia McCabe (of the Dandy Warhols) and Kristen Hersh (ex of Throwing Muses).

As of the filmmaker's most recent blog post, there are only 5 minutes of edited footage, so it's not as though this is a movie coming to a theater near you in the next month or so. Still, it's worth noting for a few reasons:

• This is a documentary which will appeal to lots of new, youngish parents. The musicians whose interviews are showcased on YouTube are perhaps not famous in a Beatlemania sort of way, but they are very well known in their own way. Does your library hold CDs by these artists? If so, you can cross-promote two collections at once when the DVD comes out.
• This is a project you can replicate, cheaply & easily, at your own library with a video camera, a USB or firewire cable, and some editing software, in about 15 minutes after storytime. Call it Your Town Mamas, and post your videos as responses to the videos already hosted at YouTube! Who knows, maybe you have the next YouTube star singing along with "The Wheels on the Bus." She's so money, and she doesn't even know it.
• This is just one more entry in the endless parade of examples you can file under DIY for the nanotech age. This is what our present era is about: people creating their own content and using it to make connections with others. On a broader scale, look at what John & Hank Green and their devoted Nerdfighters are doing for microfinanciers kiva.org, through their Brotherhood 2.0 project. This is amazing, world-transforming stuff! I'm not saying that Rock & Roll Mamas rises to the level of transforming the world at the macro level, but I think it will at a micro level ("Hey, having a baby will change my life, but I'll still be myself!"), and I bet Your Town Mamas would have a similar effect. Consider it a kaffeeklatsch for the digital age.
  

So. I've been a Nerdfighter since the very beginning of the calendar year, when John Green and his brother Hank Green formed Brotherhood 2.0, a videoblog based on their mutual decision to forego textual conversation for the year of 2007.

Those of us who are fans and have been following along have been called Nerdfighters ever since February 17, 2007 when John posted this video, during which he sang the Nerdfighter's theme song. Other verses have since been written by various and sundry Nerdfighters, including yours truly.

Back in March, the Green brothers formed the Foundation to Decrease WorldSuck, which collects monetary donations from folks, then uses the funds to make the world a better place. But recently, after a family vacation in the Dominican Republic, the Greens got the Nerdfighters all fired about being microfinanciers, through Kiva.org.

And, as of today, John has figured out the Law of Compound Nerdfighting, which means that NERDFIGHTERS NEED YOU! To enlist as Nerdfighters or at least to help with the Kiva sponsorships going on over at B2.0.

Nerdfighters! Hoo-ah!