Pink is still the colour where little girls are concerned, no matter where they grow up – some think propensity for pink is hardwired into girls. For a stark depiction of how many pink things a five-year-old could possibly own, a Korean photographer photographed boys and girls with their possessions arranged according to colour.

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So, you have some old books lying around you don’t read and that you’re
pretty sure no one else will ever read because they have pages missing
or they’re hopelessly outdated technical manuals or they never should
have been published in the first place. What to do? As always, crafting
is an option. You can make a wrist cuff, or a purse. Book covers can be made into clocks, or photo frames, or photo and card stands. They can become CD and DVD cases, or a hiding place for valuables or necessary contraband, Shawshank Redemption-style.

You can make yourself a diary, notecards, envelopes, or gift tags. If you’re feeling more artistic than practical, some people use the pages from a book as a canvas. Artist Su Blackwell brings scenes from her books to life: check out Alice’s Tea Party, or this scene from The Snow Queen. Personally I feel strangely drawn to this piece. Noriko Ambe sculpts with his books; Stefano Arienti created this installation, and Brian Dettmer took a scalpel to his and did some “Book Autopsies”. There are more ideas for things to be done with books to be found here and here.

And will you die-hard book lovers kindly stop screaming. It’s not like I wrote a post on how to craft with your mother. Yet.

Dede, aka “Tree Man”, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears.

After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts that have baffled local doctors and medical experts for over 20 years. .

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Has man really set foot on the moon? There have certainly been a lot of
claims that the whole Apollo missions were one giant hoax. Adam and Jamie at Mythbusters examine the claims of the Hoax Believers one by one. Did they use a wire rig or slow down the film to simulate the 1/6 moon gravity? What would it look like in real 1/6 G? Would a footprint in the lunar regolith have maintained it’s shape even if there was no moisture to keep the material together? Why was the flag waving so much if there was no wind on the moon? Why are the shadows on the moon not parallel
if they are coming from a single light source? Why can we see the
astronauts when they are in shadows if there isn’t a second light
source? To finish it all off they shoot a laser at the moon to see if the reflector they supposedly left there is actually there.

What a month for Google Earth. Its breathtaking updated 3D New York City skyline features textured photos of hundreds of buildings. It has doubled its US coverage and expanded Street View imagery by 22 times. But it also became the subject of a failed legal petition in India demanding it blur sensitive areas in the country. Supposedly, it had agreed to do this nearly two years before the Mumbai attack. Despite the bad timing, an Indian rival plans to sharpen the competition. Google Maps and Earth allegedly blur sensitive sites and a few questionably sensitive landmarks. However, as yet undeterred by security and privacy controversy, Google is adding GeoEye’s satellite imagery to Google Earth next month.

Who’s laughing now!

Unlike robots with no emotions
I was always pissed when ever that dog popped up from behind that bush.
Every duck you missed there he was mocking you. Every duck you shot
there he was taking the credit, but now I can finally get revenge on that damn dog!

The Cliche-o-Matic: Never be at a loss for banal words again!

Poppy For Medicine. “America’s drug war in Afghanistan has been a miserable failure. So why not legalize opium production and let Afghanistan become the Saudi Arabia of morphine?”

In 1986, most gamers who were lucky enough to own a new video game system at home were playing the original Nintendo. It’s launch in 1985, a year before the Sega Master System was launched in the states, allowed it plenty of time become the most popular console in the market, and the game Super Mario Bros. quickly became the best-selling video game of all time (a title it continues to hold, having sold over 40 million copies to date). However, even though Nintendo commanded 95% of the North American video game market at the time and the CEO of Sega made little effort to promote and market it, some people still bought and gave the Sega Master System a chance. Perhaps it was the 3-D glasses or it’s unique ability to read multiple media inputs… or perhaps that the original version of the system had a secret game built right into it (and it was unbeatable!).

Although the system was an underdog, it underwent several redesigns and mascot changes, ranging from Alex Kidd to, finally, Sonic
in the end. When the system was redesigned around 1990, Sega finally
tried to market it aggressively, but it was too late. By 1992, sales
were nearly non-existent in North America (although it should be noted
the console was very popular in Europe and several other countries where Nintendo did not sell consoles). Which is all too bad, because there were many brilliant, brilliant games for the SMS.

For those of us lucky enough to have owned a SMS, we can delight in the
nostalgia brought about by the mere mention of games such as Zillion, Alex the Kid in Miracle World, Choplifter, Ys, After Burner, Altered Beast, Phantasy Star, Hang On/Safari Hunt, and Shinobi.