O Christmas ... Bamboo?!

Well, I already have a couple of bamboos around the living room, I don't have room for a large tree, and I don't want a miniature. So, here's to applying a little Christmas creativity.

Hardcover Book Clock

Now that's creativity.

from http://www.walyou.com/blog/2009/04/02/hardcover-book-clock/

Indian Ethos Taliban get "Pantsed" on V-Day ... Ha Ha Ha

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100624625

... a posse of hard-line Hindu activists barged into a pub in the south Indian city of Mangalore last month and roughed up young women clients who were enjoying a quiet drink. ...

Susan, a 29-year-old journalist, decided to counterattack.

With several associates, she launched a group on the social networking Web site, Facebook. They called it the "Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women." And they unveiled a plan to dispatch piles of pink knickers to the leader of Sri Ram Sena in a nonviolent gesture of defiance.

The women chose Valentine's Day. This day particularly rankles right-wing Hindu extremists, who consider it an immoral commercialized Western import....

In other news,

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5729126.ece

Young secular Indians are organising their own vigilante groups - some armed with Taekwondo moves, others with pepper spray - to protect unmarried couples from Hindu radicals looking to disrupt Valentine's Day celebrations.

For the first time, several secular groups have organised patrols across the country to combat the Hindu nationalist organisations which they accuse of trying to "Talebanise" India. The secular groups decided to act after television coverage showed activists from the Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) attacking women in a pub in the southern college town of Mangalore last month.

Garb for Geeks. Nyeh-heh-heh!

http://www.thinkgeek.com

If you are a geek to any degree, you will grin ear-to-ear browsing through this site. The designers of these products go beyond mere stereotypes, having creatively come up with stuff that embodies the essences of true geek cultures. Some of my favorites:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/724a/ : The geek love poem. For the non-geeks, #FF0000 and #0000FF are red and blue in hex color code, and All Your Base Are Belong To Us is a well-known geek meme.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats-ties/9352/ : Now if only I had an 8-bit suit to go with it.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5d6a/ : 127.0.0.1 is the IP address that represents the universal home, or local host, address

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/illuminated/8e31/ : Hey, nobody seems to be winning.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/popculture/78c6/ : Scaryyyyyy!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6a17/ : On the bright side, it's far more robust than your regular LCD watch.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/sciencemath/8953/ : Not quite the popular definition of heavy metal, but technically quite accurate

If you haven't had your fill of geekiness, here's a little bonus: http://www.ducttapefashion.com/

 

Toonatomy

Have you ever wondered what the skeletal structures of your familiar cartoon characters would look like had they been real life species. Well, thanks to this imaginative osteo-artist, you can now see how the bone structures of Felis Hello, Homo Powerpuffensis, and Canaria Tweetus might appear if they actually existed.

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/