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Wisconsin Corpse Plant To Bloom Again

Posted by Zonk on from the wisconsin-has-the-best-stuff dept.

V_IL_Len writes "The University of Wisconsin's original Amorphophallus titanum, or 'corpse plant' known as Big Bucky is ready to bloom and emit its intensely malodorous stench. The plant only blooms a few times in its 40 year life span and each bloom lasts only 2-3 days. Its stench attracts carrion beetles and flesh flies to pollinate it. See this link for photos and live stream of the bloom."

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  1. Re:Wisconsin Does Have The Best Stuff! by SeventyBang · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But it doesn't have people who use "it's" instead of "its"!

  2. Lordy... streaming video... help! by philovivero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have this problem with every "streaming" video site. You click the link, and download it. It's a XML file with a URL for the actual content. You wget that, and you end up with a 4k file with lots of ASCII-encoded binary garbage. You have no way to watch the video.

    I've got mplayer set up with all the right plugins to watch just about any sort of media file, but I can never figure out how to get the file *OFF* their servers and *ONTO* my desktop.

    Is this just one of those ways I'm being punished for choosing Linux as my desktop operating system?

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  3. Re:oh. my. god. by Inda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I grow a plant called Scardy Cat (Coleus canina) in my garden. It's supposed to smell like Lion dung but having never smelt Lion dung I can't comfirm it. It does keep the cats away though.

    http://www.scardy-cat.com/

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    This post contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.