You've read about crazy Japanese pizzas, but the rest of the world has distinctive preferences, too. In Brazil, you can get hard-boiled eggs and peas on your pizza! In Germany, you can order a pizza topped with asparagus. Lots more international pizza toppings are listed at Rue the Day! Link -Thanks, Jill!

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We posted about Australian blogger Olive Riley last year. She was 107 years old when she started her blog, The Life of Riley. Olive was 108 when she died Saturday in a nursing home. Link to story. http://www.allaboutolive.com.au to blog. -via Geek Like Me

Olive Returns to Broken Hill

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In this excerpt from the film All About Olive, a documentary by Mike Rubbo about the life of Olive Riley, she recounts a childhood fight and shows us she can still dance at age 104.

Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss tests your memory of Joel, Mike, the Bots, and the movies of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I loved the show, but was still surprised that I scored as high as 70%. Can you beat that? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16097

This game features Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs, using light sabers, icons, and trash talk! Pick your favorite geek and go to battle. Link -Thanks, Jim!

Leah Evans creates textile artwork using imagery from the natural world, including satellite photography!

My current work combines aerial photography, maps, and satellite imagery. I also find myself drawn to the more minute systems of the microbial world. I enjoy the play in scale between magnified microbial life forms and remote sensing images of huge tracts of land. Both scales deal with the translation of scientific information into a visual form. At times these separate bodies of work merge. The overlap is seen in vessel-like arteries of water, tundra pools that look cellular, and microbes that swim through topographic lines.

The gallery has quilted wall hangings made by piecing, applique, needle felt technique, and a variety of embroidery stitches. Link -Thanks, Troy Cummings!

I went to this list thinking I'd for sure know the top ten. But I was down in the 70s range before I found one I didn't know! Advertising sticks with us more than we think. The top ten most effective taglines are:

1. Got milk? (1993)
2. Don’t leave home without it. (1975)
3. Just do it. (1988)
4. Where’s the beef? (1984)
5. You’re in good hands with Allstate. (1956)
6. Think different. (1998)
7. We try harder. (1962)
8. Tastes great, less filling. (1974)
9. Melts in your mouth, not in your hands. (1954)
10. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. (1956)

The top 100 (according to the 2005 survey) along with the advertisers are listed at Tagline Guru. Link -via Euba

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Magic words or gestures won't open the refrigerator, but this cat isn't going to give up! -via Arbroath

Let’s face it, sometimes there is a need to launch your lunch or defend your dinner, and this is the perfect utensil to do it with. It’s easy to use; simply load up a particularly mushy pea or corn niblet, aim, pull back the spring-loaded handle and watch your food take flight.

http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=42832&Category_Code=1023000&Product_Count=37 -via Everlasting Blort

SEVERAL years ago, I built a robot whose sole purpose in life was to create an even smaller robot just like himself... So much like himself, that this robot endeavoured to create yet another tiny robot, ad infinitum. This continued for a while until an extremely tiny speck of robot tried to endow purpose upon a cloud of molecules with ruinous result.

It's really a virtual art project that you can manipulate. Try it out yourself! http://screamyguy.net/fractal/index.htm -via Dump Trumpet

Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos is a blog documenting tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. There are a lot of tattoos inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut, J.K. Rowling, and Dr. Seuss. Link -via Look at This

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A performance on the Russian Bar, recorded for Chinese television at the Circus Festival of Monte Carlo. The final stunt is unbelievable! -via Cynical-C

It's Lovely! I'll Take It! is a blog with "A collection of poorly chosen photos from real estate listings. With love." Each post is linked to the real estate ad the picture came from. The particular location pictured here is listed at over half a million dollars. For that kind of money, they could have moved the junk pile before taking the picture! I decided against using the picture in another item where the seller neglected to flush the toilet. Link -via Metafilter

Alex posted a picture of the Idea Machine the other day, and now we know who's behind it! Jake Bronstein of Zoomdoggle planted the Fun-O-Meter (also known as the Robofun, the Fun Idea Machine, or Funulator).

I hadn’t planned on posting the details this early, but as some other sites somehow got wind of the project early (I’m not mad, I should’ve figured, I watched dozens of people photograph it), the time is now.

Jake has taken the Fun-O-Meter to many locations around New York City. And it's more of a bargain than you thought -for 50 cents, you get an idea, a standard coin-machine toy, a 25 cent rebate, AND a lucky penny you can leave for someone else to find! Zoomdoggle has more pictures. You'll also find some "free ideas" in the sidebar. Link -Thanks, Jake!

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A Peruvian Rescue and rehabilitation team trains sea lions to reentry into the wild using unique methods. This video shows the astonishing bond that can develop between man and animal.

From BlueVoice.org, an organization dedicated to saving whales and dolphins, co-founded by Ted Danson. Link -via Arbroath

Flowing Data has a map showing the spread of Wal*Mart stores from 1964 to the present (but only in the United States). You can zoom in or out while the video runs. The burst of new locations at the very end is for proposed sites. Link -via the Presurfer