Eric Rodenbeck and Cassidy Curtis have created a masterful timelapse photographic collage of various San Francisco graffiti sites to show how these urban canvases have changed over the last five years. It's a design tour de force. Link

Great Amazon.com boner with the cover of Lolita! Link (Thanks, Dr. Mazoola and Jeff Zeldman!)

Amazing gallery of spectacular origami. Link (Thanks, Kate!)

Funny site warns parents not to disappoint P2P savvy kids by giving them shiny discs for xmas.

Kids today are so good at downloading music from the internet that most of them already have all the music they like on their computer, or if they don't have it yet they can get it in 10 minutes. And remember: if your family turns off "sharing" downloading songs is 100% safe..

Link (thanks, Marc!)

Tom sez, "Just in time for the Norwegian Christmas rush: Clay Shirky's 1994 epic, 'Ode to Lutefisk'. 'Lutefisk' is an infamous Norwegian dish composed of fish soaked in lye. Clay's take on it: 'You need to drink enough aquavit so you can't tell the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat with your eyes open'. My take: I never understood how Jesus fed 5,000 people with just 5 fish, until I had lutefisk." Link (Thanks, Tom!)

"Organ humanizing" is the process of injecting your stem cells into an animal foetus, so that when it is born, its organs' cells will be similar enough to your own that they can be used for spare parts.

The human cells must be injected around halfway through gestation - before the fetus's immune system has learned the difference between its own and foreign cells, so that the animal does not reject them, but after the body plan has formed.

That ensures that the resulting animals look like normal sheep rather than strange hybrids like the "geep", created by fusing the embryos of a sheep and goat.

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Supply this website with a photo, choose a body, pay $39.95, and they will knock out a custom, one-off bobble-head doll of you or a loved-one. Link (Thanks, Tom!)

The GasBGon is a "flatulence filter" that you put on your chair-seat, so that when you fart, it doesn't smell. Available in many designer patterns.

Q: What is a GasMedic flatulence filter seat cushion?
A: The clinical version of the GasBGon cushion with an impregnated carbon filter based on technology used to develop military chemical defense garments and a specially produced polyurethane foam with improved feel, height and shape retention.

Q: Why use a GasBGon or GasMedic flatulence filter-seat cushion?
A: Today's health conscious population is concerned about eating the right foods and the trend has been towards a high fiber diet. This fact coupled with various illnesses, produce intestinal gas discharges, commonly know as flatulence, crepitating, breaking wind, cutting the cheese, or farting.

Link (Thanks, Amanda!)

A poster on Farber's IP list sez:

The Salem cigarette brand is marketing itself by paying attractive young men and women to give away its product. To keep these employees from making mass donations to their friends they've been given digital cameras. They're asked to photograph a unique driver license for every 3 packs given away. I witnessed this at my first visit to Dee's Cafe on the south side. It's a favorite hangout of Pittsburgh bike messengers, hep cats, artists, and smokers. About 30 packs were given away in the hour that I was there.

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Lisa Rein has begun to post the recordings from her musical showcase. Her first track, "In the Spirit," is up now. It's her first anti-war song. Link

The President of Blockbuster has called for an end to region-coding in DVDs:

"I believe, in addition to the elimination of two-tier pricing, the studios should also make another significant strike against piracy with the elimination of regional coding," he said. "The extra time on windows created by regional coding is an opportunity that pirates exploit."

His reasoning is a little mealy-mouthed. This isn't "pirates exploiting opportunities," it's more like "customers routing around market-failures," as when the product they demand isn't offered for sale, or when they discover that they can buy the same product for half the money in a different part of the world. Link (via /.)

I just happened upon these amazing books edited by JoAnne Olian, the "Everyday Fashion as Pictured in Sears Catalogs" series, covering kids' fashions from 1900-1950, 1909-1920, the forties, the fifties and the sixties.

LiveJournal has posted a bunch of demographic stats about its user-community -- the age distribution skew (shown here) is fascinating. Link (via Smartpatrol)