Flickr user Richard- took this amazing aerial photo 10 miles north of the town of Grady, eastern New Mexico. The caption of the photo says:

These fields seem to be (look like they are) slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like this and it's one of the reasons I find flying so enjoyable.

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Sala at Aharef.info wrote this HTML DOM Vizualizer Applet that allows you to see your website as graphs:

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

This one above is Neatorama, of course. See what your website looks like: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

Storm chaer Eric Nguyen took this amazing photo of a tornado descending from a dark storm cloud and a rainbow in Kansas (of all places - is that Dorothy's house?).

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Yeah, baby, yeah! The ultimate 70s style, found at Omodern.

Margaux Lange made very chic brooches, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and rings out of Barbie and Ken doll parts!

See the entire collection: Link

Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and colleagues in MIT's material science and engineering department have a new, odd plastic material that can both attract and repel water.

Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and colleagues started by assembling a nano-structured film made of alternating layers of positively and negatively charged polymers and silica nanoparticles. The film's structure and a coating of waxy fluorinated silane cause water to bead on it, forming near-perfect spheres that easily roll off. To add the superhydrophilic regions (to which water droplets cling), the researchers applied a naturally hydrophilic polymer to selected areas.

In dry regions of the world, without easy access to clean water, such a material could be used for collecting water. In this application, the hydrophilic areas of the material would attract moisture in the air, collecting water drops that accumulate, until they spill over into the hydrophobic regions and roll into a collecting channel. Currently, in countries with limited access to clean water, the inhabitants typically use large polypropylene fiber meshes to harvest water from fog. ...

Rubner's lab is also taking the technique further. "When we harvest water, we have chemistry built into the hydrophilic area so that it has an antibacterial agent to kill off bacteria and other things that cause harm," Rubner says. This decontaminates the water as it accumulates so that the collected water is safe for use. Applying this technique, the researchers have been able to kill common harmful bacteria in four minutes, he says.

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Q: Do you get hassled by the police?A: Nope. They have left me alone so far. As long as I obey traffic laws, I am not doing anything illegal. There aren't any laws against decorating a car or designing your own car. as long as you comply with vehicle codes, use common sense, and drive consciously. I have met many officers who just want to look, take pictures, or ask questions. It's almost as if they forget for a moment that they are police and they become little kids again...but there's probably gonna be that one cop out there who's gonna try to get me for something. They have to realize that I would be stupid to try and get away with anything illegal in that car...I mean, come on. I can just hear it over the police radio: "....the suspects are heading west bound goin about 60 mph....a little faster on the downhill...be on the lookout for a.......black ...1971 gothic cathedral...I repeat....1971.... gothic cathedral....the suspects are thought to be armed with a welder and a caulking gun..."

Awesome replica of the Delorean Time machine as seen in Back fo the Future movie. The car comes complete with "working" flux capacitor, programmable time circuit, interior details using casting from actual movie prop, movie-accurate Plutonium reactor, etc.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4644351427 (Thanks Yayo!)

Scott Blake uses a unique medium for his artwork: barcodes! This one is, as you can tell, Bill Gates made entirely from barcodes.

http://www.barcodeart.com/index.html

Ikea and Deutsch teamed together to make "everyday fabulous" for New Yorker in this guerilla marketing blitz in preparation for Design Week in New York City. They put together over 600 installations: living rooms in bus stops, oven mitts in subway trains, pens in ATM machines (until they were all stolen anyhow!)

See more pictures: http://blog.insnet.de/2006/ikea-outdoor-guerillia-aktion/

British and South African doctors discovered that you can actually rouse semi-comatose patients by giving them sleeping pills!

British and South African doctors have reported the cases of three semi-comatose patients who were revived for several hours at a time by zolpidem, marketed to millions of insomniacs under the brand name Ambien. The drug allows the semi-comatose patients to talk with friends and family for several hours before the effect wears off ...

"The effect is amazing to say the least," says Ralf Clauss of the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, UK, who discovered it along with his colleague Wally Nel of the Family Practice in Pollack Park, Springs, South Africa. "They can interact, make jokes and speak on the phone." One of them even mastered catching a baseball.

The treatment was a chance discovery, Clauss says. He recalls that one of the vegitative patients was experiencing restless movements, and that Nel was trying to calm them with the use of a sleeping pill. "Lo and behold, he woke up 15 minutes later," says Clauss. "And so now we're using a sleeping drug to wake people up in the morning."

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/060522-9.html

The Cloud Appreciation Society has a neat collection of clouds that looks like things. The photo above was taken by Angelo Storari in Ancona, Italy.

Link | Cloud Gallery

Peter Callesen made this very cool paperworks out of a regular A4 paper and glue. See his other creations: Link

Found at Bits & Pieces.

Marky Cutkosky and colleagues at Stanford University created this gecko-like robot with sticky feet that can scamper up a wall.

Stickybot, developed by Mark Cutkosky and his team at Stanford University in California, has feet with synthetic setae made of an elastomer. These tiny polymer pads ensure a large area of contact between the feet and the wall, maximising the van der Waals stickiness.

And of course:

The Pentagon is interested in developing gecko-inspired climbing gloves and shoes. Cutkosky says a Stickybot-type robot would also make an adept planetary rover or rescue bot.

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/mg19025526.500