Giant Pandas Are No Longer Endangered! (Buzzfeed, via Andrew Y.)
Italy quake: Dog survives nine days in Amatrice rubble (BBC, via Paul P.)
Just added! Little Bird Gets Tiny ‘Snowshoes’ To Fix Her Problem Feet (TheDodo, via Faye)
And now, here’s Super Mario World recreated with dominoes, from Andrew Y.
“Ugh, these pandas are such troublemaking rock stars. They’re always trashing their hotel room. Can’t they just eat shoots and leave these leaves alone?”
“If this was all the stress I had at work, life would be grand!” says Sara H.
Shout-out to Gloom Raider for making the tip jar a little less gloomy, thank you! (Not that it was all that gloomy to start with, just to be clear.)
Reader ffleur2 wrote to tell me that there weren’t enough pandas on this site, and by golly, she’s right! Let’s have a look at some buddy-buddy cuddling in China:
A little closer to home, here’s Tian Tian taking a bubble bath at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo:
Shout-out to Teresa and new subscriber Anne for gracing the tip jar! Thank you! This makes me so happy I could roll down a hill!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVhpsfxbMA&rel=0
Oh, what I’d give for some bowling pins, Maureen.