The Cool Hunter has some neat photos of a whimsically designed bookstore for kids in Beijing, China called Kids Republic:
No longer just the world’s ‘workroom’, China is rapidly becoming an international hot spot with a growing middle class hungry for western luxuries and comforts. Beijing kids are the latest to be treated to some western style indulgence with Kids Republic, a children’s bookstore that transports it’s pint sized customers into a delightful fairytale world full of color and fantasy – complete with massive story telling screens and play areas. It’s haven for little imaginations in the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world.
Posted by Alex in Sports on August 9, 2006 at 2:29 pm
The Library of Congress has one massive collection of nearly 2,100 vintage baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. This one above is of Ty Cobb stealing third base from Hugh Jennings for Detroit.
This collection presents a Library of Congress treasure — 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston, and pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly, and Christy Mathewson.
Cigarette card collector Benjamin K. Edwards preserved these baseball cards in albums with more than 12,000 other cards on many subjects. After his death, Edwards’ daughter gave the albums to noted poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, who donated them to the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division in 1954.
Finnegan the squirrel was found injured and malnourished in the Seattle area in September 2005, when he was only a few days old. He was brought to Debby Cantlon, who had a reputation for taking in sick and injured animals. Ms. Cantlon reported that her pregnant Papillon dog, Mademoiselle Giselle, repeatedly dragged the kennel in which Finnegan was being cared for across the house and deposited it next to her own doggie bed. After Mademoiselle Giselle gave birth to her pups, she continued to care for Finnegan, even allowing him to nurse with her own.
Lots more strange (interspecies) animal friends: Link – via Bits & Pieces
Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on August 9, 2006 at 2:26 pm
From the website:
If I didn’t know it already, I wouldn’t discern that the gallery below is made up of drawings. Yes! They are NOT photographs. Vector drawings using gradient mesh to be specific. Except for Bert Monroy, all of the vector art displayed here are 100% made from Adobe Illustrator.
These are very talented graphic artists, that’s for sure! Link (some images NFSW) – Thanks Jim Perry!
Mike Harrison got tired of having to grope the back of his PC plugging and unplugging things all the time, so he made a backwards PC case mod!
I’m sure there must be plenty of tecchie types out there like me, who are forever plugging things in and out of their PCs and don’t want to be groping around the back all the time. For a long time, I’ve been frustrated by how essentially identical most PC cases there are, and that nobody to my knowledge has ever made a case which has all the drives, IO connectors and PCI slots on the same side. (There may be a few industrial cases, but these are usually very expensive.)
As I like to have things the way I want, I’ve had to resort to metal-bashing to produce a case thet meets my needs.
The SMS Guerilla Projector is a home made, fully functioning device that enables the user to project text based SMS messages in public spaces, in streets, onto people, inside cinemas, shops, houses…
This is the device:
If you think that laser pointer is annoying, wait till the neighborhood kids get a hold of this thingy!
Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on August 9, 2006 at 5:35 am
Sebastien Gaucher has cool tutorials on matte painting or digital manipulation of images using Photoshop, with step-by-step instructions on how to change a cheerful, suburban home into a haunted house, changing summer into winter, sunshine into rain …
A giant panda in China gave birth to a baby panda cub – the largest one ever born in captivity!
The cub weighed just 218 grams (half a pound), but was still the heaviest panda ever born in captivity, where most cubs are born at between 83 and 190 grams, Xinhua said.
"It is very rare for them to be even near 200 grams," it said in a report late on Monday.
But the size and the fact that it was Zhang Ka’s first meant a "painstaking and eventful" birth for the mother, who was born in the wild.
"The whole process lasted about 34 hours and was the longest in the history of panda reproduction," Xinhua quoted Zhang Hemin, head of the Wolong center, as saying.
If you think your job sucks, imagine working for this bar in China:
A new bar in eastern China is offering customers an unusual outlet for anger – by allowing them to use the staff as punching bags, state media said today.
In addition to getting a drink, customers at the "Rising Sun Anger Release Bar" in Nanjing city are able to pay money to beat up staff, smash glasses, shout and scream, the China Daily said.
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