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The movie Blue Velvet was creepy and sexy and intriguing and uncomfortable, but it ain't got nothing on Isabella Rossellini's roles as various sorts of horny insects and other small creatures. In the bizarre Green Porno series, she explains their reproductive habits, complete with lurid close-ups, costumes, moans and first-person narratives. Here she is as a bee, snail, earthworm, spider and dragonfly.

Fans of the series will be overjoyed to hear that Green Porno 2 is on its way. According to Ms. Rossellini, upcoming episodes deal with sea creatures, so hopefully we'll get some more on the joys of squid sex. And think how pretty she'd be as a one of the newly found rainbow jellyfish! I have no idea how jellyfish reproduce, so I'd watch that episode. "The animals that live in the ocean are so different than us. In their sexual behavior, marine creatures are even more scandalous than bugs," she says.

Also in today's links: more animal sex, chimps seeking honey, and a science minister who tried to dodge the evolution question.

Imagine life in a cardboard box -- but without the smell of urine and stale body odor of a bum's home, and with a whole lot more accoutrements. A Dutch ad agency works in an office where all the furniture is made of cardboard. People are encouraged to doodle but, presumably, asked to be very, very careful about spilt coffee. And if you're wondering how much joy they can get from the employees get from their surroundings, just ask your cat to explain the sublime pleasure of, say, hiding in a box, to say nothing of shredding those corrugated scratching posts.

Also in today's links: explaining chimp attacks, preventing terrorist attacks, attacking illicit duck love and more.