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BREAKING SURF North Korea has announced that it has nuclear weapons. Nobody really knows for sure if the country has a working nuclear bomb, but the ruling regime has been working towards one for some time. A Web page from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) points to numerous resources related to North Korea's nuclear weapons program. It links to items like a 2002 CIA assessment of the program, accounts of trips to North Korean research facilities by US scientists, and think-tank studies of North Korean nuclear and missile programs. As long as we're talking about North Korea, we might as well point you to AreaStudies.org's nice collection of North Korean propaganda art. Much of it is in the usual manner of communist propaganda, but the material stands out as an example of a particular genre. Note that the propaganda Web site is having bandwidth problems - you may have to wait a few weeks to see the pictures.FAS: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/ AreaStudies.org: http://www.areastudies.org/documents/nkpics/picgal.html Brit Released from Guantanamo Tells Story The Observer reports in compelling fashion on Martin Mubanga, a Zambian-born Brit who went on holiday to Zambia and ended up with a 33-month-long holiday at Guantanamo Bay, courtesy of MI6 and Zambian and US intelligence agencies. It appears that this was all due to a set of identity papers he lost in Afghanistan. There is no way to verify his account but at the same time there's no reason to discount it - and Mubanga is now free and clear. This discussion will leave you with many questions, few answers, and thoughts to ponder.http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1406987,00.html By way of a review of three new books about Europe and the US, the New York Review of Books has given us a fine essay about the tensions between the two economic and political giants. Many American commentators regard Europe as old hat, passe, even doomed, and argue that the future belongs to the US. T.R. Reid's "The United States of Europe", Jeremy Rifkin's "The European Dream", and Timothy Garton Ash's "Free World" all counter this simplistic notion and present arguments that it's the US that's endangered and Europe that represents the model of the future. American characteristics like staggering disparities in wealth, higher infant mortality, and aggressive patriotism find little echo in Europe. As well, it may surprise you to learn that labor productivity per hour has become significantly higher in Europe. None of the books are without their blind spots, and this review is not a spotless paean to the European way. It points out the most amusing error of regarding the EU as the product of deliberate and clever design rather than the result of a mostly accidental process of cobbling together something that works. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17726 Top Ten Humanitarian Tragedies You've Never Heard of We're sure you've heard of a tsunami recently. Any other humanitarian disasters come to mind? Doctors without Borders reports on ten of the most underreported humanitarian stories of 2004; obviously, the tsunami didn't make this list. In northern Uganda, war's been going on for 18 years. The Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped thousands of children, forcing boys into combat while using girls for sexual gratification. They also take the time to hack off hands, lips, and ears. Elsewhere in Africa, a decade-long conflict in the Congo has cost some three million lives and destroyed the country's infrastructure. On the other side of the world in Colombia, meanwhile, millions more have been displaced and/or murdered. And if you thought tuberculosis was a thing of the past, think again. It's coming back, and it currently kills one person every 15 seconds. The organization's list is a sobering eye-opener.http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2005/top10.html Google Maps Gets Clever with Browser Code The latest beta offering from Google is a mapping service similar to the better known Yahoo Maps and MapQuest sites. Since this is Google, its implementation has several noteworthy technical twists. Joel Webber takes an in-depth look at how Google makes your browser jump through hoops to create its nifty, smooth scrolling, and zoomable maps. Much like with the Gmail service, Google programmers are using advanced techniques to push the display intelligence out to the edge of the network and your browser. Their methods are not supported in every browser, which means that if you try to use Google Maps from something like Safari, you'll be out of luck. Read Webber's technical analysis of Google's code to find out why. This is of great interest to all web designers.Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/ Webber: http://jgwebber.blogspot.com/2005/02/mapping-google.html The Stanford/Google CityBlock Project Speaking of Google and maps, the company is funding a research program at Stanford that aims to map urban spaces through photography. This kind of effort already exists, for example at A9's Yellow Pages Block View, which allows you to browse location photos of the businesses you search for (see NSD 11.05). Producing such images is not as straightforward as strapping a camera to a car and driving down a street. To do it perfectly, technicians have to negotiate many complexities, such as avoiding distortion in the raw images. A paper available on the Stanford CityBlock Project Web site explores the details. It's not inconceivable that similar research will automatically generate virtually-walkable 3-D environments of outdoor spaces at some point, though the challenge of 3-D mapping is an order of magnitude (or dimension) greater than that of flat 2-D pictures.CityBlock: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/cityblock/ NSD 11.05: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v11/nsd.11.05.html#BS3 A9: http://www.a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp Newsburst is yet another RSS feed aggregator, from the great big online news source CNET. (We told you this was catching on....) Newsburst greets you with what at first seems to be a typical online news site, with a number of links to news stories "selected by editors". The real story lies behind the scenes - the whole thing is powered by RSS feeds from a plethora of Web sites. You can personalize Newsburst to your liking by signing up for an account and choosing RSS channels you want to regularly subscribe to. You can even subscribe to things like MSN search results, which MSN provides as an RSS feed on its recently redesigned search engine. Newsburst is not particularly innovative, since much of this kind of service is already available from sites like the pioneering Web-based news reader Bloglines. CNET clearly wants a piece of the news-feed audience - more to the point, it wants the ability to expose them to advertising. Incidentally, Bloglines was recently acquired by Ask Jeeves for an undisclosed amount, which may make Newsburst a good financial investment for CNET if an acquisition market for such sites develops among the big media players. Newsburst: http://www.newsburst.com/ Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ Ask Jeeves: http://www.irconnect.com/askjinc/pages/news_releases.html?d=72257 LokiTorrent Shuts Despite Legal Defense Fundraising Drive Last December, the MPAA launched a wave of lawsuits at a number of prominent centralized BitTorrent torrent-tracking sites and nearly all shut down as a result. LokiTorrent defied Hollywood, however, and pledged to fight back. The site initiated a fundraising drive to raise money for legal defense. Alas, it was not to be. Loki Torrent raised more than $30,000, but this week finally gave up the fight - the MPAA now owns the domain. If you visit, you'll be greeted with a warning which says "You can click but you can't hide." Edward Webber, who operated LokiTorrent, agreed to pay a settlement to the MPAA and is under court order to turn over user logs. CNET reports that visitors downloaded an estimated 800,000 torrents from the site in October 2004. A P2pnet.net story claims the user logs don't have much value to the MPAA, and the same outfit provides a list of torrent-tracking alternatives.LokiTorrent: http://www.lokitorrent.com/index.php CNET: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5571782.html P2pnet.net story: http://p2pnet.net/story/3870 P2pnet.net list: http://p2pnet.net/story/3861 At its heart, the iPod shuffle is basically a small storage device. In theory, nothing prevents a clever hacker from turning several of them into a reliable storage device known as a RAID array. RAID arrays usually consist of a bunch of cheap disk drives arranged to record data redundantly. If one disk goes, just pop a replacement in - the data lives on. AC&NC has a nice tutorial that can teach you how this works. Now, since an iPod shuffle can act just like a hard disk, if you plug four of them into a USB hub and configure them with Apple's disk utility - bingo! You have a very small RAID array. Jim at Wright This Way did it. Why would you want to spend over $400 to do this? Mostly, because you're a geek and you can. Maybe that's why we're impressed by the idea. AC&NC: http://www.acnc.com/04_00.html Wright This Way: http://www.wrightthisway.com/Articles/000154.html A homograph is a word with one spelling but two pronunciations and/or meanings, like lead (e.g. I will lead the way to the lead mine; a homonym is similar, but just applies to words with the same spelling). The word has been appropriated to describe a Web-site phishing attack made possible through support for international domain names in Web browsers. Internet standards organizations realized quite some time ago that people would want to create domain names in character sets other than English ASCII. The International Domain Name (IDN) standard evolved to standardize how browsers display and look up domain names in non-English fonts like Arabic or Cyrillic. Bad guys can carefully craft a domain name in the IDN standard that will trick a browser, and the user, into believing that they've connected to, say, a bank, when they've actually surfed to a spoof site. There are several ways to do this without IDNs, but up-to-date browsers can by and large defend against those - not so for the IDN hack, which analysts have hypothesized since at least 2001. The problem hasn't actually existed until now, when modern browsers fully support IDN and Internet registrars like VeriSign allow you to register such domain names. Schmoo.com has a technical write-up of how it works, with a demo. Mark Brader has a list of homographs (from 1994!). Schmoo.com: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Brader: http://tinyurl.com/4d79c Sharing Photos and the Flickr Phenomenon In an interview with Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Flickr, the increasingly popular photo-sharing community site, O'Reilly's Richard Koman neatly explores the seemingly bizarre phenomenon of photo sharing. Flickr burst into the online social networking scene last year (see NSD 10.07) and has since been attracting users, and commentators, like flies. Flickr defies the odds in mysterious ways, and goes against what purists might consider appropriate. Consider tagging. Any old fool cataloguer knows that control and consistency are vital for effective retrieval of information. Flickr provides neither - but then, neither do many other popular online applications. Users shrug - so there's noise in the system, that's part of the fun. Butterfield reveals how letting other developers in on the spoils reaps rewards by reinforcing and extending the original application. If Flickr's a mystery to you, this insightful interview will explain clearly what's going on, and if you already get it - well, you'll get it even more.O'Reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/5607 NSD 10.07: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v10/nsd.10.07.html#BS16 Never mess with science-fiction and fantasy authors. PublishAmerica, a vanity press that claims high standards, commented on its Web site that SF authors were incapable of writing high-quality literature. Over a long holiday weekend last year, a group of published SF authors put together their own mediocre book, "Atlanta Nights" which they credited to Travis Tea (get it - travesty?). Each participant wrote at least one chapter. The manuscript was submitted to PublishAmerica and the vanity press promptly accepted it despite the amazingly atrocious quality of the thing. We're talking bad in every way - spelling, punctuation, plot, dialogue, you name it. When the writers revealed their plan, PublishAmerica changed its mind and rejected the book, but the damage was done. From the brief sample we read at Lulu, we can tell you that this is a really, really bad book. Masochists can download a PDF of the whole thing at co-author Andrew Burt's page. PRWeb has the writers' press release, and Making Light has links to more. PublishAmerica: http://publishamerica.com/ "Atlanta Nights": http://www.lulu.com/content/102550 Burt: http://critters.critique.org/sting/ PRWeb: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb202277.htm Making Light: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006041.html Timex celebrated its 150th anniversary with a design competition for the watch of 2154. The Future of Time contest attracted over 640 entries in three categories: wearable; wrist-based; and conceptual. The wearable winner was cool: sticker watches that come on a roll, each with timer, clock, and calendar. Tear one off and stick it anywhere. The wrist-based winner was Time-aid, which envisages using satellites and a tiny video display to program the watch to show any clock face the wearer wants anywhere in the world. While the winners are certainly ingenious, the runners up are equally fascinating and imaginative. Among them is a watch worn like a contact lens that flashes the time fast enough to register only subliminally. The wearer just knows what time it is. Another entry features a tiny watch that fits in the ear and whispers the time, transparent when worn but brightly colored when not. Others are a bracelet that projects delicate beams of light to display time and a band that surrounds but never touches the wearer's wrist, with its time display always positioned towards the eyes. The Timex contest is a lot of fun and a timely reminder of how many clever people are out there. http://www.core77.com/timex/winners/default.asp The British National Space Centre has released the report of the European Space Agency and the UK's Commission of Inquiry into the failure of the Beagle 2 Mars probe. In addition to a summary, the center provides the full report as a PDF. Beagle 2 was designed to land and explore the surface of Mars, but it didn't work out. The report attempts to detail exactly why the Beagle 2 went astray. It's also a good look at government at work. At least this failure can't be blamed on a failure to convert metric to Imperial measurements. http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/default.aspx?nid=4900 AnandTech Reviews the Mac Mini Lusting after a Mac mini? If so, you might want to read AnandTech's thoughtful review of the newest Mac, especially the part about memory. Don't try to run OS X without 512 MB of RAM, no matter how inexpensive the machine. This review is an odd duck, in a way - the target audience for the Mac mini isn't composed of people who visit AnandTech. The review will most help out computer-tech enthusiasts who are looking to buy a Mac mini for their non-techie relatives. The non-techies will never get the message that they need to upgrade the RAM or that the video output is best left at 1280x960 resolution or less. Nevertheless, Anandtech gives the Mac mini an extremely positive review, and it can't help harping on how small it is.AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2328 Did you forget to watch the commercials during the Super Bowl? Were you actually cheering the Eagles on? Do you live in a protectionist nation that won't let American ads cross the 49th parallel? Wondering what all the fuss was about the Go Daddy ad? SuperBowl-Ads.com, friend to globalization, offers links to all the Super Bowl ads, which are actually hosted at Ifilm (along with the unaired version of the Go Daddy ad) - SuperBowl-Ads.com adds some fluff. CNET has compiled a list of links to reviews of the various ads. Personally, we liked the ads with all the chimps, but that's just us. SuperBowl-Ads.com: http://www.superbowl-ads.com/2005/index.html Ifilm: http://dyn.ifilm.com/superbowlads/ CNET: http://news.com.com/2070-1009_3-5564136.html ONLINE CULTURE Stupid Banking Interface Tricks When you sign up for a bank account at Citibank UK, apparently a process akin to pulling teeth without anesthetic, you are given the privilege of accessing your account through the Web. That's all well and good, even though it does create certain security problems. Alas, Citibank UK has chosen to deal with them in a particularly silly way. In order to log in to your online account, you must enter your password by clicking on the image of a keyboard that Citibank opens for you in an annoying pop-up window. You are not allowed to use your own physical keyboard. It's powered by DHTML behind the scenes and is supposed to prevent some hacker's keyloggers from capturing your keystrokes. Nice of Citibank to think of this, but the process is incredibly awkward to use and introduces other security issues. Cory Doctorow recently had to use Citibank's interface and details what's wrong with it, not only from a usability standpoint but from the point of view of security - which we suspect is only dependant on ever-popular and ever-ineffective obscurity.http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/12/citibank_uk_banking_.html
SURFING SITES Paul Graham is a tech guru and essayist who once upon a time was invited to speak to high school students. School authorities torpedoed his speech, but the text lives on at his Web site and contains advice he wished he'd had access to when he was a high-school student himself. He wants young students to avoid designing their lives solely to gain college admission. Instead, students should explore their skills and desires via active curiosity. They should take advantage of the freedom they have to answer grand questions and undertake secret projects. He neatly avoids grandiose words of inspiration, and the sort of advice most often heard from well-meaning maiden aunts. If you want to inspire a high-school student you have in your life, send them here. Curious, active young adults are a valuable commodity.http://paulgraham.com/hs.html Big Box Reuse documents an inspiring trend in American commercial recycling. "Big box" is the generic term for the supersized stores that sell huge amounts of merchandise at lower prices than anyone else around. They tend to dominate and decimate other retail merchants in their immediate area. If they prove too big for the local market, if the market dries up or moves away, or if the parent company goes belly up, these big boxes tend to be abandoned. If a small store closes, another can open in the same space - that's not so easy with big boxes and the result is often a huge relic that blights a whole area. Big Box Reuse documents how some groups recycle abandoned big boxes and put the buildings to many creative uses. It's eye-opening and heartwarming. Be sure to put your cursor on Minnesota and check out the new Spam (the food!) Museum in Austin. http://www.bigboxreuse.com/ You don't have to look far on the Net to find someone with a valid claim on the rank of number-one Star Wars fan in the world. Jeff Tweiten's claim is a particularly strong one: he is camping out on the sidewalk outside the Pacific Science Center Imax theater in Seattle, waiting in line for the opening of "Star Wars III: The Revenge of the Sith". He started camping in January, initially at a different theater - before the cops encouraged him to move on. The movie opens May 19, meaning Tweiten plans to be out on the street for 139 days, which is an impressive length of time even compared to his two previous sidewalk vigils for Star Wars episodes I and II. He's keeping a blog of his experience but, as you might expect given his accommodations, he rarely has Net access. His posts contain links to newspaper articles about his exploits and a video explaining how he manages to go to the bathroom, and you can send him e-mails of support. We just hope for his sake that the movie is worth the wait. George Lucas is no Samuel Beckett. http://waitingforstarwars.blogspot.com/ Remember that Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch in which Michael Palin's Mr. Anchovy goes to see a vocational guidance counselor played by John Cleese to say that he is bored with his job as an accountant? The counselor tells him that accountancy is the perfect career for him because he is "an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humor, and irrepressibly drab and awful.... In most professions, these would be considered drawbacks. In accountancy, they are a positive boon." Well, it seems the accountants are hitting back, and extreme Accounting welcomes you to the white-knuckle adrenaline rush that is Extreme accounting. According to the extreme sport's history, since the dawn of time when balance sheets were drawn up on cave walls, accountants have been taking things to the limits. Check out the gallery for photographs of these double-entry daredevils in action, and if you think you have what it takes you can submit a picture of your own. Sketch: http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/lion.html Extreme Accounting: http://www.extreme-accounting.com/ Nostalgia is almost compulsory these days, so it should come as no surprise that a list of the 100 best toys from 20 to 30 years ago would find its way to the Web. What did surprise us was how many of these toys are still going strong, in one guise or another, with kids today, and how warm and fuzzy the list made us feel. So go ahead, pour yourself a glass of milk and settle down to reminiscing about Fuzzy Felt, Rubik's Cube, and Connect 4. TV Cream polled its readers, and after it tallied all votes from adults everywhere who recalled their favorite playthings, as well as those they never owned but lusted for across the playground, what was the number one toy all wanted back in the '70s and '80s? A bicycle. Yep, simple but true. If it was good enough for ET, it was good enough for us. http://tv.cream.org/extras/toys/index.html Is this the house coffee at the Enterprise Institute? Or perhaps the White House? Here's your chance to "start your day right", as their slogan has it, with coffee grown by former anti-communist guerillas. That's right, Contra Cafe is coffee grown by former Nicaraguan Contras, who waged war against the Sandinista regime in the 1980s, aided and abetted by the Reagan administration in general and the CIA in particular. Given the large number of "progressive" products on the market today - Ben & Jerry's anyone? - this was probably inevitable. Are the growers exploited? According to Contra Cafe, it pays the growers more than the Fair Trade rate, so you don't have to worry about rapacious Yankee coffee merchants screwing former allies. Is the coffee good? It's "100% Arabica coffee... shadegrown in the highlands of Nicaragua's Jinotega region." You tell us. The site includes information on the Contras and tells how some of the former fighters have become small-holding coffee farmers. http://www.contracafe.com/home.htm Photo Booths in Life and the Movies Photo booths are a staple of North American culture. These camera cubicles can still be found in just about every kind of public establishment, be it shopping center, diner, or post office. Doubleperf.com seeks to catalogue the photo booths of the US, as well as those photo booths seen in the movies. At the site, you can browse through movie screenshots of photo booths in such films as "Superman 3", "The Karate Kid", and "The Replacement Killers" (not to mention "Amelie"). Also available are visitor submitted images of photo booths found throughout the US. In addition to pictures of a visitor-submitted photo booth, you'll often also see a sample of photography taken by the booth.http://www.doubleperf.com/photobooth/ The Biggest Private Collection of Nikes The first sentence of this look at Corgishoe does a pretty good job of summing up the collection: "There's a fine line between obsession and appreciation...." The Corgishoe collection showcases thousands of Nikes - about 2,100 of them - and the fine folks who design the Hundreds gear took a look at it. While a collection of shoes isn't uncommon, there are a few details that make this collection stand out. First, these shoes have been collected by a guy and stereotypes would have us believe that shoe-shopping is a female-dominated pastime. Secondly, Corgishoe collects only Nikes, with his collection including every style and color produced by the company since about 1997. Lastly, the shoe collector never wears the shoes he buys. A visit to this site will greet you with a short introduction, followed by a FAQ page and then the grand collection of Nikes. We're not convinced this isn't all just some clever marketing, but we don't much care one way or the other.http://www.thehundreds.com/chronicles/corgishoe/ The Bold and the Beautiful in Cell-Tower Trees Arborists have long sought to create the perfect tree. They've done a pretty good job. Even Mother Nature has entered the act with some gorgeous specimens of her own. But now the prize can be awarded. It goes to the cellphone companies and their ever-growing evergreen forest of camouflaged cell towers. This is not one size fits all environments. The cellphone-tower tree that's a beautiful pine in Pennsylvania is recast as a perfect palm in Arizona - same electronics, different disguise. Early in this craft, fake fronds stuck out, but the latest blend right in - usually. Their height and straightness often give them away. FraudFrond.com is a gallery of the best and some of the worst of America's new forest.http://www.fraudfrond.com/ The Fake Funk Jump Project gives people a reason to jump for joy. At the site, you'll discover a collection of photos that depict people in mid-jump. Jumpers are showcased from all over the globe. The purveyor of this site is a self-proclaimed hyperactive jumper whose quirky inclination is catching on, it seems. The evidence is found in the many photo galleries of people jumping in front of famous landmarks such as Stonehenge and the Statue of Liberty. Browse through the 14 photo albums with over 350 images and if you're inclined you can submit your own jump photo to this growing collection. http://www.fakefunk.com/ You've got a bunch of personal digital photos which you really like. Wouldn't it be nice if you could turn a collage of the photos into a wall poster? Mike Matas can show you how to do it in roughly 20 minutes. Before you get too excited, make sure you have the prerequisites - you'll need a Mac, iPhoto, PhotoShop, and about $29 for the final print from Kodak. Some of the commentary at Matas's blog implies that you can get along fine without PhotoShop, or the Mac for that matter, but they don't go into much detail. Then again, maybe this is just another good reason to get a Mac mini. Whatever the route, this is one of those cool ideas that are worth knowing how to do, particularly since, as Matas says, these kinds of posters make great gifts. http://www.mikematas.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-make-life-poster.html Bill Cosby once observed, "I got little tiny hairs! Poking out my face!" If you've never liked them teeny-tiny hairs that poke up from time to time or that mole on the side of your face, here's a place to fix things, at least digitally. Face Transformer Image Upload lets you morph facial images to the nth degree. Load an image of your own mug, and see how you look in other venues - with or without little hairs poking out your face. Check yourself out as a Caucasian, an African, or whatever. No plastic surgery or drugs needed. http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/index.html FLOTSAM & JETSAM Take one religious book for kids, complete with "saccharine, pastel artwork depicting cold-eyed androids", mix with a little alien menace, and you arrive at a hilarious primer for the nefarious plans of the evil Zogg, who have already conquered 48.729% of the known Universe.http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/zogg/zogg1.html Everybody knows the rules of power-wielding like "Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit" and "Crush your enemy totally." But who knew "Stir up waters to catch fish" and "Use bait if necessary"? Sounds fishy to us. http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Cgt/Courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm The Onion presents a Valentine's Day collection of what we might call real-world love coupons. Example: "One awkward, emotionally chilly hug that, viewed from the side resembles a capital 'A'". Short but sweet. Or at least disturbing. http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4106&n=9 "Paperback Writer"/"I'm A Believer" Mark Vidler doesn't expect to make a living mashing together songs and sometimes videos, and he came to our attention for his "Paperback Believer" mash of the Beatles and the Monkees. He has so much more to offer. How about the Cult and Freeez? Devo and Destiny's Child? Go crazy.http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/ When computer-game tech meets porcelain, you end up with You're in Control (urine control, ha ha), which lets urinal users play games during business. The inventors even came up with a handy device that lets women take a whack. These guys are definitely on to, or just on, something. http://www.monzy.org/urinecontrol/ Anyone who has tried to make yellow snow will know that the human bladder does not have the capacity to allow you to do anything really creative. You can try it online though, letting your imagination run wild, and even e-mail your virtual oeuvres to a friend. http://www.pee-mail.com/ Anyone longing for real snow this winter ought to pop over to Make-a-Flake, where they may use the mouse-controlled app to cut out their own snowflakes out of digital paper. There's absolutely no artistic talent required. http://snowflake.lookandfeel.com/ If you're looking for an enduring fashion statement, look no further than the Grey Sweatsuit Revolution. This experiment in personal and social expression is sweeping the globe. http://www.thegreysweatsuitrevolution.com/ |
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