lacking color, limbs, or time?

some miscellaneous miscellany encountered in the past few days - -


one hundred 'n' thirty some cats- The short video here makes me think of what I'd imagine a cat mosh pit looking like. I might have to try to download the clip somehows and put that bit to some crazy music. Happily, despite the crowded conditions, the cats in the video look remarkably healthy, happy, and clean as does the flat. It seems plausible they are better off there than roaming the streets of whatever Russian city this is in?



d.i.y. prosthetics! - "the Open Prosthetics Project" - I've only glanced a bit over this site but it looks quite interesting, and I think what they are doing is awesome. The point is to share innovations in prosthetics for free, because "prosthetics shouldn't cost an arm and a leg". And even for those of us with no need for a prosthetic, it is interesting simply in the way of looking at ways mechanized whatnot can be made to imitate human movements/functions, if you're interested in taht sort of thing, or maybe just into neat gadgets and gizmos in general. Or if you happened to be someone into making any sort of robotic or such thing and wanted it to have human-like functions/movements
it seems like this could be a pretty useful resource for you.



"the Worst Album Covers of All Time!" - I don't agree with all the site user's choices and comments but there are some pretty funny/weird/interesting covers posted here, worth a browsing.



Wikipedia page collecting "unusual articles" - this is rad! links to all sorts of wikipedia entries on odd places/things/topics collected on one page!



"the best pictures always lack color" - big database 'o' black and white photos which you can bring up at random if you'd like, and also you can rate them if you'd like. Seems to have a lot of cool photos.



compendium of user-designed and contributed icons, avatars, and emoticons, also away msg suggestions for instant msgngrs.



a couple things I happened across by chance that I haven't heard of before and really want to read:

Momo by Michael Ende - about a young girl that saves the world from time thieves, by the guy responsible for "the Neverending Story" which I previously hadn't realized was based on a book, nor did I know
whom the originator of the story was.


the Shadow Children Sequence by Margaret Peterson Haddix - A series of 7 books following the life of a "shadow child", a third child in a world where population is rigidly controlled and families are allowed no more than two offspring- if they have more, the child/children are killed if discovered.

Here is a review of
the first two books, from sci-fi author Orson Scott Card's "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything" column, which is also seemingly a worthwhile read in general(this is my first encounter with it).



This is it for now, being as I must wash-up and scamper hurriedly to work. Thanks for stopping by.
Planning on some major editing of this site soon as many of the pictures and links in the olden posts are null or too damn big and some elements of the site appear to be a total mess in my browser. So keep an eye on us! :)