Friday, September 25, 2009

Rare Apple has Split Personality

Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England picked a bizarre Red Delicious apple off his tree. It looks as if someone stuck together half of a green apple and half of a red apple, but these colors are natural.

John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, said: ‘I’ve never seen this happen before to a Golden Delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Zombie Pin-Ups and other Retro Horrors

Kristian Hammerstad's posters features well-dressed zombie women, an alien invasion, and other images out of scifi-influenced horror, rendered in a nostalgic, Charles Burns-influenced style.

12 Surface IQ Pentagon

Move over, Rubik’s Cube: the 12-Surface IQ Pentagon is a Rubik’s Dodecahedron that promises to train both your left and right brain, if it doesn’t permanently scramble it into goo first.