To promote the movie, the producers of Dune (1984) released a set of children's coloring and activity books. Coilhouse has scanned several pages from them, many of which are shockingly and hilariously inappropriate for children.

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Previously: Goodnight Dune

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The Sesame Street version of Katy Perry's song "Hot N Cold" isn't bad, but the song is best understood as a classic polka. Hoop-De-Do, Hoop-De-Do/ I hear a polka and my troubles are through.

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Artist Ed Chapman made this mosaic of Hendrix out of 5,000 Fender guitar picks. He auctioned it for £23,000 (US $37,352) to benefit cancer research. You can view a gallery of his other mosaics at his website, most of which are made from ceramic fragments.

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Charts Bin presents an interactive map showing the distribution of passenger cars throughout the world. Iceland leads the world with 668 per 1,000 people. At the link, you can hover over each country to view more details.

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Samuel Granados created two LEGO maps of the Americas, one one each side of a vertical surface, and used stacks of varying levels to indicate immigration patterns:

His project is very funny: a 3D cartogram about emigration and inmigration between american countries. But in true 3D: made with Lego pieces, as he explains, "to seize the space of the exhibition" and "allow you to watch teh cartogram from different perspectives".
One side of the map show the emigrants of each zone, the opposite shows the inmigrants (both represented by the volume of the pieces).

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Web celebrity cat Maru is considering changing his hairstyle. Not seen: reverse mohawk. Which do you think suits him best?

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Phil Hart captured this amazing long-exposure shot of the movement of stars over and bioluminescent algae in Gippsland Lakes, Australia:

The photography was highly addictive and I spent many late nights waiting for the moon to set, capturing as many images as I could, trying different lenses and exposures. I spent one memorable evening trying to photograph the luminescence in gentle waves lapping at Cooinda’s front beach. I kept bringing the camera closer to the water to get the best result. Eventually I threw caution to the wind and stuck the tripod down where the waves washed over the legs.

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Last year, to mark the 50th anniversary of the debut of Barbie, Mattel had a house redecorated to resemble the doll's Malibu Dream House:

The 3,500 square foot house in Malibu was designed by “Happy Chic” interior designer Jonathan Adler and features a chandelier made of Barbie hair, a closet filled with thousands of shoes and a sunburst mirror made from 65 Barbie dolls.

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Lauren Milroy, a mechanical engineer with a background in the aerospace industry, recently completed a master's program in design. She made these shoes out of colored pencils.

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Depending on who you talk to, this sculpture can or can't be used as a hookah. What is more certain is that it was made by glass artist Kevin Murray of Milwaukie, Oregon.

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Max Eddy of Geekosystem rounded up pictures and information about unusual and macabre chess sets, such as the above set inspired by the Alien movie franchise. Facehuggers make appropriate pawns.

You know what would be good to see? A chess set inspired by the chess episode of Lexx.

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Jen of Epbot attended the Miami Comic-Con and took this picture of a little girl in a Cinderella costume reading to R2D2, who chirped and beeped in response. It was only after she started processing the pictures that Jen noticed that Denise Crosby, the actress who played Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was in the background of the shot.

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Do you come across as insufficiently creepy to your friends and coworkers? Then start transporting your data with this severed finger flash drive by Etsy seller jasonscreations.

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Since it is Dr. Seuss' 107th birthday, there's no better time to dig into the green eggs and ham. These, however, are not edible, as they are a crocheted sculpture. Craftster user The Izz writes:

I will crochet them in a box.
I will crochet them with a fox.
I will crochet them in a house.
I will crochet them with a mouse.
I will crochet them here or there.
I do like them anywhere.
I will crochet green eggs and ham.
For I do love that Seussy man.

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Previously: Shakespearean Green Eggs and Ham

Kyle Bean made a sculpture of a chicken out of eggshells. It's called "Which Came First?" Although, at first, I thought that this was a digital image, the last photo in the set at the link shows Bean assembling the sculpture.

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Previously by Kyle Bean: Nesting Cell Phones