Man pulls palm tree down onto his pick up truck

Enough said:

 
Aie.  So much for that bakkie.  This one is from South Africa.
If this were real, I can only imagine that SOMEBODY would want to know if he was all right.

J.Crew Spring in a Modernist Neutra Setting

J.Crew has taken a strong visual turn with the spring March 2008 catalog:

It’s distinct for its use of landscape architecture and architecture to contrast just a hint of what the model is wearing.  There are no happy, jumpy groups of people (at least on the cover) with white linen jackets in stupid little row boats.  [...]

The ‘Paradiso’ font by Brian J. Bonislawsky at Astigmatic

 

MyFonts.com, in their most recent email newsletter, has this to say about the font: "On a stroll across his home town, the Vegas-based, self-proclaimed ‘Professor of Fontology’ found a similar source of inspiration in the Paris Resort and Casino. Its logo has a high “ooh-la-la” factor, with a capital P that is decidedly lustful."
Not to [...]

Court: whales are protected against Navy exercises

From The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court has ruled that the Navy must protect endangered whales from the potentially lethal effects of underwater sonar during anti-submarine training off the Southern California coast, rejecting President Bush’s attempt to exempt the exercises from environmental laws."  Read the whole article here.

Flint Tropics’ Will Ferrell movie has a slow open

While "Semi-Pro," the new Will Ferrell movie about the Flint Tropics basketball team, topped the box office numbers over the weekend, it still only brought in $15.3 million according to Alicia Chang via the AP.  Chang says that, according to "box office analysts," it’s possible that either a slow time of year or the movie’s [...]

Coffee Art

Here’s a new bunch of images I pulled from a coffee art email that’s making the rounds.  There’s the fish:

Butterfly:

I like the sailboat one in particular:

There were several others in the email too.
It looks like at least one of these is from Israel.  I would like to credit them properly if anybody knows who the [...]

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