unique and interesting: May 2007

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Kromofons

Lee Freedman has waited a long time, but he thinks the moment is finally right to spring on the world the color alphabet he invented as a 19-year-old at Mardi Gras in 1972. For 35 years, Freedman has been working on Kromofons - an innovative alphabet in which the 26 English letters are represented solely by individual colors - waiting for technology to catch up with him.

And now, thanks to the Internet, the ubiquity of color monitors, Microsoft Word plug-ins and his being able to launch a Kromofons-based e-mail system, Freedman thinks he is finally ready.

It may seem confusing, but it's actually very simple, in concept at least. The letter 'a' is represented by a bright yellow, 'b' is a light blue, 'c' a pale pink, 'd'is grey, 'e' is orange and so on. Freedman pointed out that for the entire history of the written word, humans have been reading in black and white. Now, with Kromofons, he argued, people will begin to read in color, both in static words and animated phrases.

A 'then and now' of Star Wars characters.

Japanese company Sangaria has been marketing non-alcoholic beverages to kids for years - as beers, wines, and cocktails in a variety of flavors and packages.

Sangaria's kodomo no nomimono is just one line of Japanese non-alcoholic beers - wine and sake are also available - marketed directly at children. It sounds unbelievable but I understand it is part of Japanese culture.

(via Neatorama)

I've been linking to Bart Bonte's games before.
His latest game is called 'Loose the Moose.' It's an 'escape the room' kind of game where you find yourself dropped in a strange room. Are you smart enough to open the door?

WikiDumper

WikiDumper, or the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump, is the Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects. 'One man's trash is another man's treasure.

WikiDumper is edited by Cliff Pickover of Reality Carnival.

Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of residential properties in the USA that allows you to see when neighborhoods and cities were built. Slider controls allow you to view a specific time range or drag through the timeline. You can also search for specific properties, areas or cities through the search box.

To get started with Trulia Hindsight, choose a point of interest from the map, browse around for yourself or use the search tool to get straight to what you're interested in. In addition to dragging and zooming, you can use slider controls to animate a specific time range, scroll through the years or adjust the brightness of the underlying map.

The Corona-Matic is a typewriter turned into a waffle iron. It makes keyboard shaped waffles. There's and integrated stand for holding four jars of syrup. The Corona-Matic is a design by Chris Dimino.

(via Beancounters)

What's the right way to draw a head?

A free class from the Academy of Art.

Click on getting started.

How to draw a head.

(via Information Junk)

Google Maps Street View

Google launched 'Street View' photography. Street View shows a panorama photo for certain locations on Google Maps. By clicking on the arrows on the panorama you can go to that direction. Take a look at this preview page and click on 'Street View.' Then click on a camera and you are asked to zoom in. Follow the instructions.

Currently Google Maps Street View only shows some regions in North America but other locations will added soon.

Dazzle camouflage was a camouflage paint scheme used on ships. It consisted of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other. At first glance it seems like an unlikely form of camouflage, drawing attention to the ship rather than hiding it.

Dazzle camouflage had a very specific purpose, however, which was to make it difficult to estimate the target ship's speed and heading and so disrupt the performance of the visual rangefinders used for naval artillery at the time. In other words, its purpose was confusion, rather than concealment.

(thanks Borse)

411-SONG

How many times have you heard a song and wished you knew who it was or wished you could get it before you forget it? Now you can! Whenever you hear a song you love, call (866) 411-SONG. Wait for the beep and hold your cell near the music for just 15 seconds.

411 SONG will identify the song and send you a text with all the song info (artist and song name) and a link to get it. There is no charge for your first ID. Subsequent IDs are $0.99. Or, get unlimited ID's for $3.99 a month.

Underwater sculptures by English artist Jason Taylor.

(via Dark Roasted Blend)

Linkdump

Drive Like a Cop

301 Useless Facts

Very Weird Amusement Parks

52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity

Balloon Creations

Heinz Ketchup Fountains

A commercial for the Heinz Top This TV challenge. This hasn't been done in one take which you can see by the obvious cuts. That's probably because they ran out of ketchup.

Theme Park Insider

Planning a trip to Orlando to visit Walt Disney World or Universal Studios? Thinking about a trip to Southern California's theme parks? Looking for insider advice on getting the most from an amusement park trip?

Theme Park Insider is a consumers' guide to the world's most popular theme and amusement parks, written by consumers themselves.

The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth.

Take a trip around the world on the Doing Business Map to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 175 countries. Click on green, yellow or red placemarks to learn more about each country.

Dance Sister Dance

Wanna star in a new Scissor Sisters' video? Simply upload your best full-on head, and that of a friend. Then choose a sexy body, outfit and wig, and get down!

I created this video with two of the presidential candidates, Hillary and Barack.

Create your own dance video.

An Ames room is a distorted room that is used to create an optical illusion. It was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames in 1946 based on a concept by Hermann Helmholtz.

An Ames room is constructed so that from the front it appears to be an ordinary cubic-shaped room, with a back wall and two side walls perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the horizontally level floor and ceiling. However, this is a trick of perspective and the true shape of the room is trapezoidal.

As a result of the optical illusion, a person standing in one corner appears to the observer to be a giant, while a person standing in the other corner appears to be a dwarf. The illusion is convincing enough that a person walking back and forth from the left corner to the right corner appears to grow or shrink.

Here's a video of an Ames Room.

Show mom you remember where you came from. Reconnect with your mom in a whole new way with the first after-market umbilical reconnection system. Nothing says 'I love you, Mom' quite like the MaternaCord umbilical reconnection system.

Made of durable, high elasticity material, the MaternaCord helps you recreate that conduit of love between you and your mom. It can even improve or strengthen your step-mom bond! MaternaCord - it's like being in the womb, but without the space issues.

Does Wi-Fi Kill?

Wi-Fi (WIreless-FIdelity)) is the popular term for a high-frequency wireless local area network and the consumer-friendly name for the 802.11b engineering standard. It lets home and office users create wireless local networks, which connect two or more computers to each other and a faster Internet line.

The BBC program Panorama warned last week that Wi-Fi may pose a health risk. The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels in some schools are up to three times the level found in the main beam of intensity from mobile phone masts.

On the other hand scientists have said there is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of Wi-Fi and damage to health.

A piechart where each sector is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag. Click on an image to reveal the flag.

Pictured here are the flags of the Netherlands, the USA, and the flag with the most colors, Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Like viruses, spam has become a scourge on the Internet as billions of unwanted messages are transmitted daily to almost every e-mail recipient. In 2006, there were an estimated 183 billion spam messages per day in 2006 or 70% of all e-mail traffic.

Eighty procent of spam can be traced via aliases and addresses, redirects, hosting locations of sites and domains, to a hard-core group of around 200 known spam operations. The Register of Known Spam Operations database collates information and evidence on known professional spam operations.
Find out who are sending you this garbage.

Women In Film

Last Friday I posted 'Women In Art,' a morphing video about 500 years of female portraits in western art. From the same author comes 'Women in Film.' 80 Years of female portraits in cinema.

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know

Bowdlerize, soliloquy, gerrymander, moiety, ziggurat. These are some of the words the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries recommend every High School graduate should know.

They have compiled a list of 100 words not meant to be exhaustive but to be a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language.

The A-Z Of Modern Etiquette

Modern etiquette is all about hoodies, emails, religion and My Space. Here's an example:

M is for MySpace
The seven laws of MySpace:

1. Never join MySpace unless you are in a band and deluded enough to think that you might be discovered without a major record label building your page for you.
2. Never befriend anyone on MySpace that you would be embarrassed to send an (omega) email to in 'real' life.
3. Except for Tom.
4. 'Thanks for the Add' messages are not necessary.
5. Never accept invitations from girls you don't know with names like 'Nikkee' or 'Alexxxa.' They're not who they seem.
6. Never befriend defunct bands, or those featuring dead members, or both - such as Joy Division.
Chances are their pages were set up by someone else.
7. Lily Allen is not really your friend.

The A-Z Of Modern Etiquette.

(via Nag on the Lake)

37 Sources Of Inspiration

Did you ever feel lost in space, trying to gather your thoughts, get motivated to write for your blog, design a website, come up with logo ideas, find a perfect object for your photo shoot, simply be inspired to live your life to its fullest?

Here is your one in a lifetime chance to swim in the ocean of inspiration filled from 37 sources.

6 billion Others is a project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, author of Earth from Above. The project collects testimonies of people from all over the world where they speak about what moves them. In 2008 you will be able to listen to the thousands of testimonies, and add your own testimony to the site.

The idea came to me while we were taking the shots for 'Earth from Above' in Mali. I was waiting in a little village where I started to have a discussion with someone.

In the evening, by the fireside, the man I'd been talking to told me his entire life, his desires, his wishes, his ambitions - they could be summed up in four words - 'to feed my family.' That meeting changed me, it changed the whole way I see the world.

(via Ursi's Blog)

10 Disturbing Trends In Subliminal Advertising

Some of the biggest advertisers are taking their advertising away from full page ads and television spots and spending up on hidden persuasion. You won't find these secret messages in ice cubes or flickering film footage like they were in the sixties.

Subliminal advertising has gone mainstream - fake news, mind control scripts, propaganda and stealth voicemail are in wide use by corporations, government bodies, and industry groups. Have you spotted any of these?

Home Schooled

Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson.
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.

Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.

Title: What's 525,600 Minutes Times 2?

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The Circus in America: 1793 - 1940

The first American circus was presented on April 3, 1793 in Philadelphia, PA. President George Washington saw the show twice. John Bill Ricketts organized the first show, which included horses, an acrobat, a clown and a rope-walker. The first circus tent was used in America in 1825. Until then, the word 'circus' didn't mean the show. It meant the temporary wood and canvas building where the show took place.

The Circus in America: 1793-1940 surveys the history of the American circus over a 150-year period. It promotes serious scholarly research of the significant role the circus played in the growth of American society and popular culture.

The width of neckties has always seemed to change with the fashion of the moment. However, traditional style lends itself to neckties which are in balance with the size of the jacket lapels.

A necktie should be tied so that there is no collar space showing at the knot. The tip of the tie should end at the belt, and not above it.

Flickr Color Selectr allows you to search for images on Flickr based on the primary color within the image.
All photos are Creative Commons licensed.

Disclose TV

Disclose TV is a new and fast growing video and photo sharing community dedicated to the mysteries, secrets, anomalies, conspiracies and other alternative or unexplained topics of this world.

Many of the videos uploaded on Disclose TV have been banned from TV because of their controversial and mind-boggling nature, and that can only mean one thing: Hours and hours of rare research footage that many do not want you to see!

Pistol Shrimp

The pistol shrimp snaps a specialized claw shut to create a cavitation wave that generates noise in excess of 200 decibels and is capable of killing small fish. This sea creature blasts bubbles at over 60 mph with a temperature comparable to that of the sun.

Everything you ever wanted to know about butterflies and moths. The latest stories concerning butterflies and moths on the World Wide Web, a searchable dictionary of terms used in lepidopterology.

A virtual museum with photos and drawings of real butterfly and moth specimens, interesting facts, library catalogue, butterfly and other bug icons, wallpapers, free butterfly greeting cards, poetry, online games, butterfly and moth books, field guides, faunas, taxonomic revisions, monographs, encyclopedias, etc.

The Dome of Peace is a synthesis of the arts by the Austrian artist DE ES, an alias of Dieter Schwertberger. It is a house of inspiration in the service of the realisation of the dreams of humanity: worldunity, worldpeace and worldculture.

The Dome of Peace is an exhibition and performance center, as well as a hall of contemplation, congregation and celebration, dedicated to all planetary citizens.

(via Jaf Project)

Smile, Though Your Heart Is Breaking

What's that, officer? I'm being arrested?
Wow, that's great!

Not everyone looks glum when they pose for a mug shot. In fact, some arrestees are actually beaming when the sheriff's deputy says 'cheese.' The men and women pictured here were photographed over the past few weeks in police stations nationwide.

An ekranoplan is a vehicle resembling an aircraft but that operates solely on the principle of ground effect. Ground effect vehicles fly above any flat surface, with the height above ground dependent upon the size of the vehicle. Ekranoplan design was conceived by revolutionary Soviet engineer Rostislav Alexeev.

During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the Caspian Sea as huge, fast-moving objects. Some ekranoplans were over 330 ft long, 540 tonnes fully loaded, and could travel over 250 miles per hour, mere meters above the surface of the water.

(via Neatorama)

Linkdump

How to Photograph Silhouettes in 8 Easy Steps

Sleep Adjustment - Gain 10 Days per Year

10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It

Illusions Gallery

An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

If the claims are accurate, Jamison Stone's trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.

The Sarcasm Society

Sarcasm is sneering, jesting, or mocking a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to insult or wound. Use of sarcasm is sometimes viewed as an expression of concealed anger or annoyance.

(via Miss Cellania)

Here's how to take your left over Marshmallow Peeps, add a few components, and make them into pimped-out peepmobiles.

(via Everlasting Blort)

500 Years Of Women In Art

500 Years of female portraits in western art.
Great morphing video.

The US government mistakenly listed Bangladeshi-born American Hasan Elahi - a 35-year-old artist and Rutgers professor - on its terrorist watch list. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others.

He posts pictures on his website, sometimes a hundred a day. The rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images stretching back several years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.

Hasan Elahi's website.

Drum Machine

Jet Plane Birdstrike

A ThomsonFly jet hit a bird during take-off from Manchester Ringway International Airport. One of the engines appears to injest the bird and the whole thing was filmed by a plane spotter. The crew and air-traffic controllers dealt with the situation in a calm and professional way.

How To Catch A Lion In The Sahara Desert

I think I'll go for the 'magneto-optical method.'

We plant a large, lense shaped field with cat mint such that its axis is parallel to the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field. We put the cage in one of the field's foci. Throughout the desert we distribute large amounts of magnetized spinach which has, as everybody knows, a high iron content.

The spinach is eaten by vegetarian desert inhabitants which in turn are eaten by the lions. Afterwards the lions are oriented parallel to the earth's magnetic field and the resulting lion beam is focussed on the cage by the cat mint lense.

LOLMaps by Nikolas Schiller combines various historic maps and Nikolas' art, with popular image macro phonetics popularized by LOLcats.

It also combines some of the 'All your base…' text as well as some Latin words used in old maps. There are currently 49 LOLmaps with 143 different backgrounds which gives LOLmaps 7,007 different viewing combinations.

(thanks Sarah)

Jay Jacobs is the original user and creator of the mypetfat program. Once morbidly obese, Jay has struggled with his weight for more than 15 years. While at his top weight of 380lbs, he committed to finding a way to get control once and for all.

He found something that has done more than help him lose 115lbs. He found a way to stay motivated and make those 'lifestyle changes' easy. He wants to share what he has created with everyone who wants help to make the diet that they are on now, be their most successful one.

Interesting and amazing houses from around the world.

Slow Wave

Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw.

An Inconsolable Octopus.
Written by Deanna Molinaro and illustrations by Aaron Thedford.

Regular readers of this website know that I'm a big fan of car racing. Whether it's Formula One, NASCAR, Champ Cars or IRL, I love them all. This Sunday, with Formula One in the streets of Monaco followed by the Indy 500, it'll feel like I'm in heaven.

Especially now that the Indianapolis 500 will be broadcasted live here in the Netherlands. I'm a big fan of Danica Patrick. While becoming one of the country's most recognizable female athletes, Danica also had to deal with sexist remarks from fellow racers, who feel that auto racing is a man's sport.

Well, Danica Patrick is back at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with something she hasn't had since she rocked the racing world by almost winning the Indy 500 as a rookie in 2005. A chance to win!

94 Ways To Keep Kids Busy For The Work At Home Parent

The good news? You can run a business from home no matter what age your children are. The bad news? The smaller your children are, the smaller your business To Do list should be. Plain and simple, until your kids are 3-4 years old, don't expect yourself to be super-mom. Kids this young just need too much attention and the business will have to fit in between nap times and play dates.

Home Business Productivity tips for all ages.

Few medieval people saw lions, panthers or elephants. To know what these looked like, they had to rely on descriptions and illustrations. Centuries ago, no one had cameras, cell phones, or an associated press service. But sometimes, scientists - the ones doing the descriptions and illustrations - goofed up big time.

Here is a collection of mistakes made by early scientists and artists when trying to represent extinct (and sometimes living) organisms.

Greetings! I am Anubis, the god of embalming. The ancient Egyptians believed that the body of the deceased needed to be preserved so that the soul could recognize it after death. Follow my instructions to prepare Seneb for his journey to the Afterlife. I will tell you how to embalm the body.

It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest USA after spending 17 years underground. The red-eyed, shrimp-sized, flying insects don't bite or sting. But they are known for mating calls that produce a din that can overpower ringing telephones, lawn mowers and power tools.

Brood XIII is expected across northern Illinois, and in parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. Cicadas live only about 30 days as adults, and their main goal is mating. They don't harm humans, although they are clumsy and might fly into people.

Battle At Kruger National Park

This is one of the most amazing wild life videos I have ever seen. It's a battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

There's one thing I want to take away before you look at this video. The buffalo calf survives.

Fifteen exercises performed by Kermit.
Click on each exercise to learn more.

Click on the can of Heinz Baked Beans.
See what happens and then click on the beans.

Linkdump

How to Improve your Voice and Speech

Undergrounds of Odessa

The Canonical List of Weird Band Names

9 Little Known Ways to Sleep

Post-apocalyptic Beetles

How to Deal with Negative People

The 100 Best Products of 2007

A German zoo has hired a clown to stop its monkeys getting bored. Berlin Zoo bosses got local entertainer Christina Peter to act the fool after vets said the chimps, baboons, gorillas and orang-utans in zoo cages were more often sick or aggressive when they grew bored.

Christina said she keeps the animals amused by making games and puzzles for them, using footballs, plastic bags, cardboard boxes or blocks of wood among other things. She said: 'And they seem to be enjoying it. They go wild when they see me coming because they know they're going to have some fun.'

The clown pictured here is not Christina Peter and the monkey is not a real monkey.

(via Nothing To Do With Arbroath)

Frank Sinatra - Free Singing Grammar

Frank Sinatra's voice and his clear diction are perfect ingredients for practising English, so this section provides wide possibilities for ESL students and teachers. Here you will find 50 best lyrics, together with audios, some videos, glossaries and explanations.

(via Grow-A-Brain)

A look at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper, 106,000 aluminum cans, and so on.

The images representing these quantities have a different effect than the raw numbers alone. This project visually examines the vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

(via Reality Carnival)

The Gyros Experience

Gyros signs - the hand-painted pictures found at hot dog stands, pizza parlors and Greek fast-food joints - are modern-day icons, literally: devotional images produced by anonymous artisans to bring the faithful into communion with the object of their fervor.

Gyros signs are among Chicago's best street art. They come in many shapes and sizes, but the best display a loving devotion to one of the city's most intense fast-food experiences.
The Gyros Signs of Chicago.

Jellyfish Lake

Jellyfish Lake is a well-known dive site in the Pacific island of Palau. It is completely isolated, but in the distant past it had an outlet to the ocean. The outlet was closed off and the high jellyfish population started to feed on quickly-reproducing algae.

Over millions of years, it became an advantage for the jellyfish to lose their stinging cells, or nematocysts. Today, the very high jellyfish population are stingless, and tourists can enjoy swimming with them much closer than would be possible anywhere else.

Here is a novel illusion that is as striking as it is simple. The two images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa are identical, yet one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle. The reason for this is because the visual system treats the two images as if part of a single scene.

This illusion was the winner of the 2007 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest.

(via Ursi's Blog)

Mesmerized

For the first time ever you can actually become a fully functional timepiece. Your body will be realistically positioned between your arms which will never get tired of telling you what time it is.

Your own arms and body become the timepiece. More than just three-dimensional, you portray the time in a perfectly layered, anatomically correct, functional piece of art.

(thanks Jim)

retroCRUSH has a great article about the worst cover songs ever. Some of these covers were sincere attempts to make good songs, others are so inexplicably awful that you don't know what the hell they were thinking. Others are clearly meant to be jokes, but it doesn't make them sound any better.

Smile - You're On Candid Camera

(via Everlasting Blort)

The Surprising Truth Behind The Construction Of The Great Pyramids

Almost everyone in the scientific world embraces the theory that the pyramids were crafted of carved-out giant limestone blocks that workers carried up ramps.

Professor Michel Barsoum, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, and colleagues have found scientific evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete, debunking an age old myth that they were built using only cut limestone blocks.

000 Text

Sometimes you come across a very weird web site. 000 Text is one of the weirdest I've ever seen. I don't know what it means, I don't know what its purpose is, it's just plain weird.

Foot binding, also known as kack put, was a custom practiced on young females for approximately one thousand years in China, beginning in the 10th century and ending in the early 20th century. In Chinese foot binding, young girls' feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches.

As the girl reached adulthood, her feet would remain small and dysfunctional, prone to infection, paralysis, and muscular atrophy. This was initially a common practice only in the wealthiest parts of China, particularly in North China. However, by the late Qing Dynasty, foot binding had become popular among people of all social classes except the poorest of peasants, who needed able-bodied women to work the fields. Today, it is a prominent cause of disability among elderly Chinese women.

Know Your Rights

Think you know your rights during police encounters?
Do officers have to read you your rights when you're arrested? Can you be arrested for refusing to identify yourself to a police officer? Do undercover officers have to admit they're police when you ask?

Answer 8 short questions, and see how prepared you are.

Rabbit

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

Sitting too close to the TV will damage your vision. Reading in the dark will weaken your eyesight. Eating carrots will improve your vision. These were some of the things we learned when we were young. And even now some people believe these are true.

Knowing how to take good care of your eyes is the first step to protecting your sight for a lifetime. Here's the lowdown on some eyesight myths.

Michael Moore Rescues His Harshest Critic

Filmmaker Michael Moore has come to the rescue of his harshest critic. For several years now, Jim Kenefick has been railing against the Oscar-winning director on Moorewatch.com. Recently, Kenefick wrote about the difficulty he was having paying his wife's medical bills.

Someone emailed him and asked if an 'anonymous' benefactor could offer to pay his first year's premiums of $12,000.
Kenefick found out that his secret benefactor is none other than Michael Moore himself. Still, he doesn't sound especially grateful.

Home Schooled

Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson.
Co-writing by Silas Jackson.
The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson.

Home Schooled is more or less a reflection of the wacky and occasionally interesting adventures of the artist, Ash Jackson, himself, with the aid of his friends, family, and other cohorts.

Title: One Damn Dolla'.

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Carlos Diez Diez

Carlos Diez Diez from Bilbao, Spain, is a fashion designer. When I think of a fashion designer (which I sometimes do, really!) I immediately think of fashion shows, the catwalk, the models.

Ah yes, the models. Why they walk so funny. Why they always look so miserable. Why they are wearing animal masks. Huh? Animal Masks?

(via Everlasting Blort)

By the way, I do know why the models always look so miserable.
Read this article and you know it too.

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