Posted: October 16, 2005 | Author: mll | Filed under: Design | Tags: humor, oddities, race/ethnicity | Comments Off

that a compost bin could have such personality (from the
NYC WasteLe$$ Web site on recycling).

This little guy (a pile of mulch), also from the NYC WasteLe$$ site, looks slightly terrifying. At least the city’s trying.
These images remind me of this article, titled “Graphic Artist Carefully Assigns Ethnicities to Anthropomorphic Recyclables,” from The Onion.
Posted: October 16, 2005 | Author: mll | Filed under: Entertainment, Media, Science | Tags: animals, books, oddities, tv | Comments Off
I’m baffled by this
article on
IMDB, titled “Grace Horrified by Holloway Robbery.” Here’s an excerpt:
Josh Holloway’s Lost co-star Maggie Grace is horrified to learn of the actor getting robbed in his home, because she knows he only just completed work on the dream property. … And Grace, who learned of the incident during her current visit to New York City, knows just how much the home and vehicle mean to Holloway.
There’s a brief description of the robbery and an even longer quote from Grace about her reaction to the incident.
Either the article should have been about the robbery and about how Holloway feels, or the article should have mentioned that Holloway could not be reached for comment. Instead, the article ends up sounding like it’s trying too hard to make something (a robbery) out of nothing (comment from a person who did not witness the event and was not in the area at the time).
Maybe this was just an excuse to put up a portrait of Grace, who’s in a movie that came out the same day this article was posted?
On a lighter note, I saw a commercial for an upcoming episode of NOVAscienceNOW that will feature a segment on fish surgery (!). Incidentally, I just read about fish surgery in Herd on the Street: Animal Stories from The Wall Street Journal, which I picked out from the library today.
According to this 2002 Wall Street Journal article reprinted in the book, there are only 20 or so vets in the entire country who operate on pet fish. The number of such vets might have grown since then, as the reporter noted that demand for such services is rising as increasing numbers of people install backyard ponds with fish.