Links for 14 May 2006: Special Wee Beastie Edition.

That dang Internet just keeps making more stuff to read:

• Schrödinger's cat is so last millenium. Quantum puppies have entered the light cone.
• Origins of the Black Death: In defense of gerbils.
  
• Emergent behavior: Cockroaches act democratically.
• Some remarkable pictures among the winners of the National Wildlife Magazine photo contest (Google cache version is here, in case the NWM site failure is persistent).
• Schneier's got a wicked squid thing going.