Yesterday was Tibetan Independence Day. Shepard (that iconic Obama poster) Fairey created this gorgeous print of the Dalai Lama in recognition of that fact. If I’d had a spare $60 and had got there before they sold out, I would have totally bought one.

[Found on Boing Boing]

You can see every novelty Google logo ever here, although the Popeye one is still the best. I think the 'novelty' logos are waaay overused now - it used to be a surprise to get something different, kind of like the worlds largest in-joke that you were in on, but now it seems pretty rare to get the normal logo. →

Excited about some potential conservation planning work in Timor-Leste...

I'm a big fan of Boston.com's "The Big Picture". I love this photo from the latest instalment of their series of photographs from Afghanistan. I'm a sucker for swallows.

Last month I spent a week up at Lizard Island Research Station, helping a friend to establish some permanent transects to measure juvenile coral growth. My job was to drive the boat, hammer metal stakes into the (non-living) substrate, stretch a tape measure between them (so that Lucie could map out the locations of juvenile coral colonies) and try not →