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Friday, October 05, 2007

Going Home From Work on Friday



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Kalanchoe daigremontiana looks like a plant lobster:


(image credit: Fernando Arias)
an addition to our "Strange Plants" post



(original unknown)
an addition to our "Gas Mask Fashion" page



an addition to our Funny Sports page


Mixed fresh links for today:

Cassette Tape Culture - [design]
How Adidas makes soccer balls - [interesting]
10 Brilliant Complete Movies Online - [list]
Interesting Elevators - [fascinating]
Kadykchan: Abandoned Russian City - [photos]
CD Zapping - [tech art]
Bike Saddles! - [weird]
Single-frame Polaroid animation - [art video]
Bugatti Veyron vs. BMW M3 - [car video]



Strange Skull on Flickr:


(image credit: cyberbiscottato)

Speaking of skulls, here is a site dedicated to "a skull a day"...
and a church full of bones:

Church of Bones
Kostnice Ossuary in Sedlec, Kutna Hora, Prague (Czech Republic).









This site has an info, and some professional photography of this church.

Some cute skeleton "kitty" T-shirt design:


(image credit: Exler)


A real sign:


(original unknown)

An acquired taste:



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    We will include some in the next post on this subject.

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