Today's links, featuring Spangles the cross-eyed cat getting ready for Talk Like A Pirate Day and a Shiba Inu puppy attacking a watermelon.

‘Workaholics’ Caption Contest: We’d Like To Give You Guys T-Shirts And Season One DVDs.

Another example of questionable food industry practices in China was reported by The Guardian in an article which opens with:The flying pips, shattered shells and wet shrapnel still haunt farmer Liu Mingsuo [Guardian]Settle down, Guardian, the watermelons didn't molest him.

Researchers at the USDA in Oklahoma are coming up with new ideas for producing biofuel from discarded crops, specifically watermelons.