This is a fun thing. Turn the text content of your blog, website or other RSS-source into graphic art…
Tags: Wordle, graphic, text, website, blog, RSS

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As described by Tim the Enchanter.  …But with more yarn. (Courtesy of AntiCraft)
(ETA: The Rabbit of Caerbannog has its own Wikipedia page. With lots of citations. Who knew?)
 
 
 
Tags: Monty+Python+and+the+Holy+Grail, death, rabbit, Tim+the+Enchanter, bunny

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The Star Trek MMORPG is finally moving forward.
Yay!
Tags: Star+Trek, MMORPG

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I love these.
 
Tags: Moon, images

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Yeeeeuuurrrrrrrrgh. What was this cake designer thinking of???
If I found myself at a party where that was sitting on the buffet or whatever, I would seriously consider leaving.
(shudder)
(Whereas this one merely looks like it wants to land at Area 51 or something.)
Tags: cake, strange, repellent, bizarre, ick

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Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog —
TotoroForestProject.com

Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much-loved character “Totoro”.
Over 200 top international artists from […]

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Lou Romano has a blog.
Wow!

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While working on something else, I just caught a teaser on Euronews about this exhibition marking the reopening of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan.
I’m a sucker for antique porcelain, and this stuff is sublime.
(BTW, Gung hei fat choi, everybody. It’s the Year of the Fire Pig, which is supposed to be good for us […]

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But only because it’s too late for us to endanger mammoths much.
Fossilized mammoth ivory scrimshawed bracelets, $800 each.
Technorati Tags: scrimshaw, mammoth, ivory, bracelet

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The coasters. The crockery (don’t miss the mushroom shelves). And the cards. (Beware, a bit naughty at the language end….)
Technorati Tags: design, art, coaster, crockery, cup, shelf, cards

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hanukit01
Originally uploaded by designsponge.
…Though I imagine you’d have to say the blessing real fast on the eighth night…Technorati Tags: minimalism, minimalist, Hanukkah, Chanukah

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I am a big fan of Benvenuto Cellini’s. Okay, maybe it sounds a little strange to say that, at this end of time: but the man’s personality is an endless fascination to me. He was an exquisitely talented painter and sculptor who worked for popes and kings, a contemporary and acquaintance of Michaelangelo and […]

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