Plant Cellular Anatomy

I won't for a second pretend I know anything about plant tissues, other than they are beautiful.

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Pick of PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.




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Naoya Hatakeyama

Pictures taken from a Google "Uber Alles" Image search.

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One war I wouldn't mind fighting in...

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Maps

In 1930, Boston architect Chester Lindsay Churchill was commissioned to design the new Christian Science Publishing Society headquarters. As part of the design, Churchill suggested including a completely unique element: a three-story spherical globe room that would allow visitors to view a map of the world from inside the center.

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On the subject of maps, this wikipedia page contains links to satellite pictures of famous locations around the world, courtesy of Big Brother Google. I particularly like this picture of La Tour Eiffel.

Fantasy Wings

From the website:

Sometimes I think the most interesting airplanes are the ones that never got built. Some of these were schemes that were too visionary, some are found in fiction, and some were practical aircraft that lost out somewhere between blue sky and finished prototype.

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Easily Mispronounced Domain Names

Grupthink provides a growing list of domain names which can be read in different ways to those originally intended.

A sample:

powergenitalia.com
therapistfinder.com
molestationnursery.com
whorepresents.com
mp3shits.com

And one you need to know Spanish to understand:

mywebos.com

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There are no mini disasters

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Reality Check

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Food for Thought

Vegetable Music
Biscuit City
Food Scupture
Melting Faces

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Volcano National Park - Mauna Loa

Great pictures taken by Bryan Williams Jones at the Volcano National Park. Soon I will devote a whole post to pictures of Ferns. They are crazy little things...

More pictures and diary of the trip here.

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Examination Art

Supposedly real exam paper submitted for grading.
Better seen large.
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Tugboat

Do not try this at home. Remember, this is a professional captain.

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Click on image to enlarge. Recommended.

The atheist's nightmare... the banana!

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And no, this is not from a comedy show, it's for real.

Chindogu

From Wikipedia:

Chindōgu (珍道具) is the not-so-ancient Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, Chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions, would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever. Thus, Chindōgu are sometimes described as 'unuseless' - that is, they cannot be regarded as 'useless' in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called 'useful'.

the noodle eater’s hair guard

hay fever hat

umbrella head band

portable office tie

360 degree panoramic camera

ten-in-one gardening tool

personal rain saver

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Reed Danziger

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The Erotic Colouring Book

This is dedicated to my mate FunkFow.

More here.

The Kleptones

I haven't posted any music for a while. That's because I hadn't quite found anything that truly knocked my socks off lately, but thanks to Reevo from Ektopia, all that has changed.

Enter The Kleptones.

Kings of the Mashup.

Using an insane amount of samples.

Downloads.

Recomended:

A night at the HipHopera: Queen vs. Hip Hop.
24H: Genius.

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

We know what happens to Spiders when they drop acid... but what about British soldiers?

Martti Mykkänen

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Disney Clones

Someone has been cheating.

Street Art

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Microwaves

Are Evil.

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Architectural Challenge courtesy of Pruned.

What is the function of this concrete protrusion on the plains of the Negev Desert in southern Israel?

is it...

a) An ancient observatory for equatorial auroras
b) A twenty-first century 10,000-square-meter “contemplative space” used by horny teens and meth junkies.
c) A twentieth century freedom sculpture commemorating an Israeli war victory.
d) A future astronomical viewing platform for the coming galactic collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies.
e) All of the above.

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