The Tyranny of Surfaces: OOPAs & Cute Overload

< Get "Fish Problems" by Damozel | At THE FLATLAND CHRONICLES. a series of postings relating to obsessions with things and the appearance of things. 

Exhibit 1:  Random Link O' the Day that I forgot to upload yesterday (so it's really yesterday bit of randomness): Random Link[s] O' the Day:  The World's 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts/"Out of Place Artifacts".  These are discoveries that either appear to be anomalous or genuinely are, depending on whom you believe.

Exhibit 2:  The Eminent Cuteologist Meg Frost argues that the long-eared jerboa doesn't really qualify as "cute," citing the "rules of cuteness" and raising pressing philosophical issues about the true meaning of "cute."  (Cute Overload:  Long-Eared Jerboas ("Part Moth") Don't Make the Cuteness Cut; Admitted to CO on a Technicality!)