Are you a blogger and a twitterer?

The folks at twitterfeed.com are providing an automated service that captures your blog's Atom or RSS output at regular intervals and posts up to 140 characters of each blog post to Twitter. You can post under your existing Twitter ID, or set up a new one for the blog. It's free and in beta test status at this time.

For a ridiculous example of how this can work, see I Can Has Cheezburger, which is the twitterfeed-powered version of the infamous "LOL" bad-grammar cats macro-meme explosion that has been amusing (or irritating) everyone all over the "intertubes."

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Offbeat news roundup - May 25, 2007

1389 doesn't feel like being serious today.

• Snakes on a plane - 700 of them!
• Pet rooster's gone -- and eatery wants it back
• Parks try to flush out toilet thieves
• Fort Lauderdale resident pleads for help with quickly multiplying iguanas
• 17-year cicada invasion coming to Illinois
  Update: Zoo animals enjoying 17-year cicada feast
• Physical attraction is about more than just body shape, as this article at ScienceDaily.com reveals
• Canada bans illegal alien strippers
• Amorous alligator trapped at Kennedy Space Center workshop

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Cute Knut: Berlin's Baby Polar Bear

Here's the latest on Berlin's lovable mascot:

• Dutch zoo director warns about Knut: Is Berlin zoo spoiling its animals?
• More Spiegel stories about Cute Knut
• Zoo Berlin: Young Animals: Ice-Bear Knut
  (complete with photo gallery, videos, downloadable wallpaper)
• Rhapsody in Zoo (Video in Vanity Fair)

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Learn the fascinating secrets of storm-tracking, extreme weather, and wildfire fighting

Ever wanted a behind-the-scenes view of how professionals approach hurricanes, tornados, dust storms, wildfires, and other dangerous but exciting phenomena? Here you are:

• Wildfires are an ongoing problem. Wildfires at Jacksonville.com offers an entire section of up-to-date information.
• The U.S. National Interagency Fire Center offers wildland fire maps and firefighting information.
• The Weather Channel blog offers the personal experiences of the weather forecasters themselves, as well as the scientific background explained in layman's terms.
• For storms in the U.S., check out the NOAA Storm Prediction Center.
• The MODIS Rapid Response System offers new satellite views of extreme weather and fire events worldwide, including some spectacular photos of smoke from the recent Florida wildfires.
• TheStormTrack.com offers updated satellite views and current information on hurricanes and tropical storms worldwide.
• For information about winter storms, snow and ice, avalanches, and cold-climate regions, check out National Snow and Ice Data Center.
• For those of you who live Down Under, there's Australia Severe Weather.
• For storm-chasing buffs, Stormtrack.org offers a library of storm-chasing information, including maps of recent severe weather phenomena.
• Professional storm chaser Warren Faidley's Stormchaser.com offers data, links, and media information about severe weather and storm chasing, along with some truly wild photos.

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Astro the Sea Lion needs a home

Astro, an orphaned Steller's sea lion, was bottle-fed and became too accustomed to humans. So much so, in fact, that Astro joined an elementary-school walkathon and completed an entire lap. It's no use taking Astro back out to sea - he keeps returning because he gets lonely for human companionship.

Here's a video.

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Humor: A blog with funny cat and kitten photos

Rippin' Kitten is another Blogger blog. As the name implies, this one is all about cats.

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