Wow.



Using the same principle as an ink-jet printer, experts are able to take skin cells from a patient's body, multiply them, then print out a tailor-made strip of skin, ready to sew on to the body. The wound's dimensions are entered into the printer to ensure a perfect fit.



Tailor-made skin from 'ink' printer

This may come in handy at some point.



Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports

"I'd like to thank -- I mean, slap -- The Academy..."



Hardly-breaking news: I'm an Oscar geek. I admit it. I love the Oscars. The schmaltz. The glamor. The tradition. The excess. So I must ask (as lovingly as a mother with an errant child) -- why, oh, why can't they cough up a few grand from their squillion dollar budget for a decent Oscar poster? Every year, it's a celebration of bad graphic design. This year they appear to have given the design honors to an accounting intern who thought it might be cool to "do something a little iPod-y."



Oscars.com :: This Year's Poster

It just figures.



And me without a valentine this year...



ShitBitchBear::home

Feed me, Seymour.



Maybe I'm just paranoid, but this little plant looks like it has Little Shop of Horrors written all over it. (Not literally, of course.)



BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan bean plants sprout messages

Man. Some days I'd love to be rich.



Just so I could buy myself a cool pied-à-terre spacepod.



Compact [Design] Living - urbanSPY

Feeling a bit too chipper these days?



Feeling like you're out of touch with your inner manic-depressive? This should fix you up, right quick.



Oy.



compact-impact.com :: Archimedes

The new Visual Thesaurus.



Congratulations, Tina! It's beautiful... :)



Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Um. Okay.



A children's book about weed. Yes, THAT weed.



It's Just a Plant

When 404 messages develop a personality...



darwin awards :: error

I'm SUCH a sucker for homely toys.



Thanks to swissmiss for the excellent tip.



sleepycow.com :: consequences

Lovely things make life easier.



I've had this hanging in my bathroom for the past month. Every morning, as I get out of the shower, I read it. Those that know me know I'm averse to poetry that rhymes. But there's something about the simplicity of this that makes me feel...peaceful. And hopeful.



For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.



Algernon Charles Swinburne  (1837–1909)

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)



Poets' Corner :: Charles Algernon Swinburne

The perfect protest.



Might as well try for something worthy and achievable.



Inaugural Protest 2005

A sweet little animated movie.



A bit moody, but fun.

Plug in your headphones and enjoy.



froghat studios :: superman

I'm sure Hallmark is already on this.



MSNBC - Jan. 24 called worst day of the year

Dog Judo, Episodes 3 & 4



A few days late, but, alas, I was in New York and got snowed in, well away from my computer.



p.s. If you ever get snowed in, make sure it's in NY. SO much more fun than being at home.



DOGJUDO

It's all about chindogu, man.



Thanks for the tip, Claire. How's that velcro baby carrier coming along?



history of useless inventions: chindogu

Speaking of Czeltic Girl...



This entry has made me laugh every morning while listening to our local NPR station.



Czeltic Girl » Stupidity, thy name is morning radio shows

An excellent tip from my co-worker and bud, Czeltic Girl.



Incredible and unsettling photography of Hong Kong high-rises.



MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG

poetryinternational.org



This week's "poem of the week" is very sweet.



MOVING LANDSCAPES :: Luis Vidales

I love science.



Even faux.



toothpaste for dinner drawing archives: autumn 2004

Rather lovely photoblog.



cornershots: absolutWrap48

Interesting...



According to Trendcentral.com:



Pay phones may be on their way to extinction, but phone booths are making a come back. Restaurants and libraries are installing phone booths so that patrons may use their mobile phones in private.



I'd be very happy with that.

Interesting tidbits.



BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year

It's so tiny!



I want one!



Apple - Mac mini

Need a plushie of your latest illness?



Look no further. Collect all six.



GIANTmicrobes | Health

I only hope they look like QRIOs.



Toyota to employ robots

Wow.



This isn't at ALL unsettling.



CoolBusinessIdeas.com: Stressed? Try the Screambody

The series is entitled 'Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle.'"



Damn. I wish our company could come up with a campaign name like that. And keep a straight face.



Sadly, however, this means North Korea will not celebrate "Mustache March" -- an alternate campaign that a few of my co-workers thought was an excellent idea after two hours of open bar at our company holiday party.



BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | N Korea wages war on long hair: "N Korea wages war on long hair"

Beautiful mixed media pieces.



I ran across this this morning -- I'm a sucker for mixed media and typography. Lovely.



:::: Rodney White ::::