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Have you ever heard of the expression “mad as a March hare”? And if you haven’t, why not? Well, trust me — there’s an expression that goes “mad as a March hare”. I heard it used a lot in England (although I’m not sure if it was referring to me.) No month of looking at madness would be complete without looking at March hares and why they have such a reputation for being completely bonkers.

Growing up in America, I’d assumed that hares were just large rabbits. Nope. There are quite a few differences.

Hares have longer legs, longer ears and nastier attitudes. Although rabbits have been successfully domesticated, hares are still wild and free. Rabbit babies are born naked and helpless, while hares hit the ground running (so to speak). There are various species of hares, including the jackrabbit of America, the European Hare (which look like small deer with big ears) that I got to know in England and the Arctic Hare in — well, in the Arctic.

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Recently, I haven’t been able to post as often as I should here on YouTube Digger due to wind problems — no, not problems with intestinal gas, but the thing that blows around outside. The wind plays heck with the cable broadband and keeps knocking out my Internet. One day I may be able to afford wireless, but where’s the fun in that?

This got me thinking about how powerful the wind is, whether it’s a Force 5 tornado or a means to fly kites. And we better get used to the wind, as with climate change, things will get a wee bit windy in many areas that have previously known a distinct lack of movement in the air. So, let’s take a look at the power of the wind in the glory that is YouTube.

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Peace in the Middle East happening anytime before either the planet dissolves or our species becomes extinct seems like a lost cause. The roots of hate are so deep between all of the peoples in the Middle East that just when you think logic might settle in, they draw up some more hate to revitatilze the fight.

What could it possibly take to bring together such cultures with a tradition with a tradition of hating other cultures?

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If you want to know what’s wrong with this world, the answer is staring at you in the face — human overpopulation. There are just too many people and not enough land, food, water, jobs or parking spaces for all of us. So, we managed to push a few thousand species of plants and animals into extinction in order to make room for ourselves. And still, the birth rate keeps on rising and the suffering rate keeps on rising, too. Take care of the kids already on the ground by not having anymore kids.

But then again, that logic is too simple for most people. This gets into the area of hurting the economy. “Who will take care of you when you’re old and pay the taxes?” Well, quite frankly, the last man on earth will be bitching about the economy. It’s kinda stupid to place fears about lack of money over the facts of the soon-to-be lack of a planet.
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Please Note: The following is not intended to be in any way insulting to sea cucumbers.

Alaska goveneror Sarah Palin is the rising star of the Republican party, even after bringing disaster to John McCain’s Presidential campaign. Although the Presidential campaign ended over two months ago, Palin still seems to exert a magnetic pull on the nation’s short attention span. She certainly is beloved by liberal-leaning reporters, including MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who has recently described Sarah Palin as the “all-you-can-eat buffet of polictical scandal, nay — the endless wedge of Velveeta of political scandal.”

Why is she so popular? It can’t be just because America is fascinated by train wrecks. It could be that instead of being human, Sarah Palin is, in fact, an undiscovered species of sea cucucmber that actually masquerades as being human.

Shocking Similarities
Sea cucumbers are found all over the world, and Sarah Palin seems to be found all over the world. And somewhere, surely, is a sea cucumber who can see Russia from it’s house.
A sea cucumber is a creature without a backbone. Sarah Palin is also a creature without a backbone. When provoked, a sea cucumber reacts in self-defence by spewing parts of its digestive system out of its anus to thwart the attacker:

When provoked, Sarah Palin also spills her guts:

They also wave their tentacles in a similar fashion. First up, one moment that makes me so proud that I’m from the Philly area:

In comparison, let’s watch this pink sea cucumber also waving to background music:

So, there’s the evidence. Is Sarah Palin really a sea cucumber? Only time will tell!

I share my bed with my dog. Last night and early this morning, while listening to my dog snore, I started thinking about animals that don’t snore. And then I thought of sting rays. And I mean the critter — not the car or the TV show with marionetttes.

There are many critters that nature documentaries don’t feature (where are all of the guinea pig documentaries, for example?) But there are oceans of clips onYouTube to help fill in the sting ray gap. And remember, don’t get sting rays as an impulsive Christmas gift, because you’ll only wind up having to surrender the sting ray to a local animal shelter.

Here we go. First up is a film about feeding very hungry sting rays by hand at Kemah Aquarium:

This next one is entitled “Sting Ray Ballet” was posted by a Jill Garnet, filmed in Hawaii. No — I don’t know who did the music or if sting rays are particularly fond of techno. Sting rays have had such a bad rap since Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin was killed by one in a freak accident. Sting rays are pacifists, really:

And, finally, what could be cuter than baby stingray feet?

Hope you’ve enjoyed this look at sting rays.

I think it is terribly sad that even though we know there are so many healing plants and the possibility of finding even more is almost definite, the rainforests are still being cut down at a massively fast rate.

In this National Geographic video, a respected shaman in Paraguay (which has one of the highest deforestation rates) leads researchers to different places to find certain medicinal plants. One in particular they go to find is of interest to scientists as part of cancer research.

Call me a tree hugger if you like, but the cutting down of rain forests makes me so mad. They keep cutting even though we know there are amazing forms of life in there and possible cures to some of the worst human diseases.

And yet they keep cutting.

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This animated video features a song that will easily get stuck in your head, some adult content, and a statement about the human influence on nature.

I love it. It takes you through being amused, to giggling a bit over some ‘naughty’ things, and just when you’re paying the most attention, BAM! It makes a statement you won’t quite forget. Yeah, you’ll probably go back and giggle a bit more over it, but it’s the ending that makes this video complete.

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I hate this advert, well I hate the original, I love this spoof version if I’m honest. One added scene and it can make a crappy advert, dubbed in to English featuring a kid on the toilet, the best thing since sliced bread. Just watch it, and see if you can spot the extra scene….
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I’ve never been a fan of interspecies sex. Wow, what a statement that is, but let me explain. There are a species of animal called ligers, basically the offspring of a lion mating with a tiger. I don’t know if this occurs naturally in the wild, or if scientists get the lion to take the tiger out on a series of dates, then after a romantic film at the cinema, they both get drunk, one thing leads to another and hey presto, we have a liger. But I digress, watch this clip from YouTube and see for yourselves…
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This video is bizarre and slightly disturbing, as it tells the story of an English mother who still breastfeeds her daughter at 8… yes Eight years old. Now that is a bit strange, and makes me feel slightly nauseous. I was breastfed, not that I can remember but my mum informs me I was, and that’s fine, I think breastfeeding a baby is perfectly natural and normal. I don’t even shirk or look away when a new mother does it in public, and actually think it’s quite beautiful. But, that’s for babies, not 8 year olds who are at school, and have friends and lives of their own, isn’t that just a bit sick?!?
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Taken from the BazzaRoberts1’s Description of the video, and the scene it depicts… “The view from the summit is awesome and stretches 100 miles where the horizon is curved. This panorama was filmed at about 8.10am after spending 30 mins on the summit and then descending 1800m to the relative safety of Camp 1 at 7100m. You can just see 3 climbers from the south col route about 100m below, approaching the summmit at the end of the clip.”
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This is bizarre but oh so cool. Now I know it’s in Japanese so most of you readers/viewers (myself included) can’t understand what’s going on but seeing is believing… yes, that really is some goldfish living inside a deep fat fryer.
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Oh my god, would you look at the size of that! That is the biggest bit of hail I have ever seen in my life and surely the biggest you have too. The poster says the storm happened in Woodson, Texas, so that’s one place I won’t ever be visiting if stuff like that falls from the sky. As one of the commenters said, why on earth did these fools get out of the car! Ice of that size falling from the sky can surely kill a man. And if you watch the clip through to the end, you can see the damage it can do to a car.

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On March 3rd of this year 2007, there was a full lunar eclipse visible from the UK, and Northern Europe. This video shows the process of the moon being first covered and then revealed into full sunlight again. It was pretty spectacular and this guy has done a very good job of taking the video footage and editing it down to a short 3 minute YouTube clip. The whole thing started at about 10:30pm and went on until about 3am the next morning. (more…)