Time Cube. Words fail me. This guy occupies the center of a Bermuda Triangle that has Buckminster Fuller, Lyndon LaRouche, and Emilio Lizardo at the corners.

This Italian coffin maker knows that it takes a little something extra to make you choose their coffins, even if death is inevitable. What’s that? Cheesecake. Scroll down to the bottom and view the photos linked under the heading “Cofani funebri e fascino.” They have il sexy calendario to boot!

via Plastic

What are the odds: N.Y. Lottery Draws 9-1-1 on 9/11. Well, we know exactly what the odds are: one in a thousand. That won’t be good enough for a lot of people, who will be inclined to find some deeper significance in it.

I just received the following e-mail

This mail, I know may embarrash you. By embarrashment, I mean coming from somebody you never know or met before, even coming from a country – (Nigeria) noted for dishonest and Fraudalent practises.

Well, this is not one of those Scam letters from Nigeria, but from a group of who are in distress and require your assistence. I am Mr. Ahmed Idris the credit controller of ZENITH BANK PLC, LAGOS – NIGERIA I am contacting you basen on your specialisation – PROPERTIES ALLOCATION…

What was this guy thinking? “Oh, if I say I’m different from all the other scammers, then I’ll have credibility!” The mind reels.

What makes this exhibit of flowers so interesting, apart from their beauty, is that the flowers were neither painted not photographed–they were scanned directly.

I need to go get a scanner and play with this technique.

From time to time I’ll see a cryptic string of numbers and letters in the signature line of someone’s e-mail. This, I have learned, is a “geek code,” denoting in highly compressed fashion the degrees and dimensions of one’s geekiness. Well, I just ran across the equivalent for bloggers. Apparently I’m a B4 d+ t+ k s- u- f i o+ x e+ l c

Not sure who’s running this site, but he’s done a good job tracking The HisTory of Michael Jackson’s face as well as that of Britney’s boobs.

I know you’ve been thinking your little rat-dog looked a little underdressed. I know you love all things cute and Japanese. So how can you resist these yukata for chihuahuas? If that’s not bad enough, the same company offers even more demeaning outfits for chihuahuas (and to demean a chihuahua…that’s quite a feat).

BlogTree is a project that attempts to create a family tree of blogs. You register your blog, and indicate which other blogs have influenced yours.

Not sure whether to laugh at this or not.