What [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33614391"]a silly punt[/URL]!

[url]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/ftc-accuses-id-protection-service-lifelock-of-scamming-customers-again/[/url]

[QUOTE]This is the same company whose chief executive, Todd Davis, had displayed his Social Security number in online advertising as a testament to the company's ID protection services. His identity, however, was reportedly stolen more than a dozen times.[/QUOTE]

We take a lot of pictures of weird bugs. It seems like Arkansas has a lot of them!

To identify them we use Google's image search, but sometimes this method fails us.

We photographed this bug tonight. Google failed to identify it. Any ideas?

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;406282]We take a lot of pictures of weird bugs. It seems like Arkansas has a lot of them!

To identify them we use Google's image search, but sometimes this method fails us.

We photographed this bug tonight. Google failed to identify it. Any ideas?

:mike:[/QUOTE]

Looks like the lesser of two weevils.

The famous Arkansas flying crawdad?

[QUOTE=xilman;406288]Looks like the lesser of two weevils.[/QUOTE]

Patrick O'Brian just smiled from the hereafter.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;406282]We take a lot of pictures of weird bugs. It seems like Arkansas has a lot of them!

To identify them we use Google's image search, but sometimes this method fails us.

We photographed this bug tonight. Google failed to identify it. Any ideas?

:mike:[/QUOTE]

From [url]http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-search-results.asp?display=form&Color1=Gray&Color2=Black&Legs=Insecta&Territory=Arkansas&Category=True+Bug&Action=Bugfinder[/url]

Looks like [url]http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Wheel-Bug[/url]

[QUOTE=axn;406297]Looks like [URL]http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Wheel-Bug[/URL][/QUOTE]Very cool! And scary!

:tu:

You find the strangest things at Amazon.com...
 

...When you're just poking around in random "related items" links while looking for that one extra thing-you-can-use which will push you over the $35 free shipping threshold, or get you to the "15% discount for 5 items or more" in your Subscribe & Save order. Like [url=http://www.amazon.com/Socks-Attitude-Suck-Dick-Size/dp/B0052ZC67S/ref=sr_1_10?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1437548570&sr=1-10]these men's socks[/url], for instance.

LOL @ the user reviews. But c'mon, I was hoping for at least one 1-star "these didn't work for me" review.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;406303]Very cool! And scary!

:tu:[/QUOTE]

The reference to the painful bite is accurate. As soon as I saw your picture of this dastardly bug, I immediately recalled being bitten by those as a little kid, but couldn't remember the actual name. Other than the names I and my siblings called them....which are not suitable for a prestigious forum such as this.

Norm

[url=http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm]Web Design - The First 100 Years[/url] [using aviation to illustrate]

Witheringly funny stuff.