It looks like a duck, but... Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) - official maximum card from Australia Post

Did you think that your domestic partner (or wild partner), spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend

http://www.zazzle.com/whatever_postage-172753759423326509?rf=238693463283865848

is the ONLY venomous mammal in the world?

You're wrong.

" It is one of the few venomous mammals; the male Platypus has a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans."

"The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species have been found in the fossil record."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

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Apps are displacing the WWW from your time and focus.You HAVE to read this: The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.

You already know that the world wide web (WWW) is just a part of the Internet. But do you realize that the apps are displacing the WWW from your time and focus? All those applications you run from your smartphone, TV, etc.? Read carefully this VERY interesting duplex article from WIRED magazine.

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

While we focus on Information Technology updates in this blogpost, here's a very rare and cool item: a space-theme cover, with a Technology Day Station pictorial postmark from 2006.

I never met an extraterrestrial [ :) ], but I did meet people who have been in Cosmos.

First I met cosmonaut Dumitru "Dorin" Prunariu (Romania). My mother is his former biology teacher in elementary school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumitru_Prunariu.
http://www.spacefacts.de/more/international/page/english/prunariu_dumitru.htm
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/prunariu_dumitru.htm

Then I met astronaut Henry "Hank" Hartsfield Jr. (USA)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hartsfield.

We shook hands and he autographed this space cover for me (COSMOS3b, in my photobucket.com album "dorincard").