Earth From Above: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html

Today, for the first time in my life since I hit puberty, I was able to look in the mirror and see my real face. Not the cute!me, not the ugly!me - just me.

P.S. The face in my photo is a bit of a pretty-face, though. It's for you ;)

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See, this is why I prefer to read slash (as in, fanfiction with gay sex) rather than het (same with straight sex):

Greta Christina asks her readers how to avoid becoming a crank, and receives some great replies! Very recommended for overcritical nitpicky spoilsports like me ;) http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/on-not-being-a-crank.html

Cute: http://mycro.media.mit.edu/

Free textbooks!
Article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story
Discussion: http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/08/19/1316227.shtml
Example: http://www.lightandmatter.com/books.html

On a related note, SiSU looks interesting: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/
As you might know, I love the flexibility of HTML+CSS(+JS). I'm also a wannabe fan of S5 (file format), Leo (text editor) and the LaTeX class beamer. If you know of any other one-source-many-uses projects, let me know :)

We were talking in the forums, and I remembered about The Eatpoo Guide for Art desperados, which is a pretty good intro for newbie (and maybe not-so-new) artists: http://eatpoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=27

Is animal sacrifice good for law enforcement? http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/csi-deuteronomy.html

Apple love-hate for developers: http://stevenf.com/archive/on-the-app-store.php

What all parents should do for their children: http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=557

Religiously irreverent lyrics contest - winner gets a sexy book! (Non-poetic people also take a look ;) http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/this-one-should-be-fun-in-fact-i-think-we-can-make-it-into-a-game--------let-us-worship-like-the-druids--running-naked-thr.html

A small study finds that female relatives of gay/bi men have more children than those of straight men. They come up with a theory to explain it, but I'm not convinced: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14543-bisexuality-passed-on-by-hyperheterosexuals-.html

Eugenics!
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/list3.pl
http://www.dnai.org/e/

Apple is doing well, the stock market believes; nerds discuss why: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/14/0257244

And, apparently, being pretty has measurable benefits (imagine that!): http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/mg19926694.600-humans-are-biased-towards-the-beautiful.html

A discussion about allowing doping in sports: http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/08/13/1957200.shtml
As one commenter says, "sportmanship is hard to find in professional sports, but it exists at other levels." I think it's a natural result of athletics turning from a discipline into an entertainment industry too popular for its own good. We, as a society, have lost perspective somewhere along the way :/

And in other news, we have... robots with braaains! (well, almost) http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926696.100-rise-of-the-ratbrained-robots.html

Time tracking with Lego: http://jexp.de/blog/archives/16-On-LEGO-Powered-Time-Tracking;-My-Daily-Column.html

How do you run without legs? Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPPbn19UkQ

Eee rocks, but Asus doesn't know what to do with it, says Eric Sink: http://www.ericsink.com/entries/eee.html

Birds! Art! Yay! http://lunaroca.blogspot.com/

Perhaps a bit too peppy, but oh well... http://www.girleffect.org/

Evidently, beauty is not all about sunshine and butterflies: http://community.livejournal.com/feminist/3157649.html http://guyaneseterror.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-aint-pretty.html

And now, for something completely different...

Textual pacman: http://pac-txt.com/
Solitaire: http://worldofsolitaire.com/?source=games
"Chat": http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1059

Greta Christina insists that living for the moment and spending every day as if it were your last is unwise, and suggests living in the moment and spending your life as if it were your last instead: http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2008/08/living-each-day-as-if-it-were-your-last.html

Awwwwww! *melts* Not work-safe: http://www.metalandmagic.com/modules.php?set_albumName=oddities&id=bluewangs&;op=modload&amp;name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php