Harold Hedd creator Rand Holmes retrospective art show trailer

Rand Holmes was Canadas most revolutionary artist in his heyday, the star cartoonist at the Georgia Straight newspaper in British Columbia during the 1970s. He spent his last 20 years on a remote island in the Straits of Georgia where he lived out his dreams of pioneering and homesteading. He died in March 2002 from Hodgkins lymphoma and a retrospective exhibition of his original work was held five years later at the Lasqueti Island community hall. LINK: Youtube

Patrick Rosenkranz, author of a great history of underground comics called Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, sent this trailer for his Rand Holmes Retrospective film. LINK: Boingboing

Raw Video: Footage of Sugar Plant Blast Released

Surveillance video has been released of the Feb. 2008 explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia. The blast killed 14 people and injured dozens more. (Sept. 24th). LINK: Youtube

New Salamander Discovered

"Discovered near Georgia busy road."

A newly discovered salamander, which is the second-smallest salamander species in the U.S. and one of the smallest in the world at just two inches long, could change what scientists know about some amphibians, the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources said today.

The new salamander is so distinct that it belongs in its own genus (a grouping of related species), according to Carlos Camp, Piedmont College professor who first recognized it as a news species. "It represents the first new genus of four-footed creature discovered in the United States in 50 years." LINK