A koala that cheated death after being hit by a car at about 60 mph and dragged with his head jammed through the vehicle grille for about 7 miles is being dubbed Australia’s luckiest marsupial.

The eight-year-old male koala, named “Ely ‘Lucky’ Grills” by rescuers, was struck by an unwitting motorist north of Brisbane and found only when the car stopped after being flagged down by another vehicle.

Koala survives 60-mph hit, 7 miles in grille - Animal weirdness- msnbc.com

Florida kitten has eight lives left

A little kitty in Miami saw the light of day thanks to some firefighters. They worked for hours in the hot sun to free a kitten that had gotten stuck in a pipe.

Power tools had to be brought in to do the job.

The hard work paid off, though, as the kitten was pulled to safety and given oxygen.

(via WFIE news)

(Aside: they have most ad-filled news page I have ever seen. It’s 90% ads. But 10% kittens!)

For just $40 a year, believers can arrange for up to 62 people to get a final message exactly six days after the Rapture, that day when — according to Christian end times dogma — Christians will be swept up to heaven, while doubters are left behind to suffer seven years of Tribulation under a global government headed by the Antichrist.

“You’ve Been Left Behind gives you one last opportunity to reach your lost family and friends for Christ,” reads the website, which is purportedly run “by Christians, for Christians.” The domain name is registered through an anonymous proxy service, presumably to protect the proprietors from the Forces of Darkness, and not because they’re up to anything shady

The e-mails will be triggered when three of the site’s five Christian staffers “scattered around the U.S.” fail to log in for six days in a row — a system that incorporates a nice margin of safety, should two of the proprietors turn out to be unrepentant sinners or atheists.

Via Wired

“I think I was put on this earth to instill self-esteem in young girls”

-Tyra Banks (via NYTimes)