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Bindeez, winner of the Australian Toy of the Year, has just been recalled for safety reasons. Some of the beads, it seems, contain the party drug gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GHB) and have hospitalized several Australian and New Zealand children after a harmless bead ingestion turned into a mysterious drug overdose.
Manufacturer Moose Products has announced a voluntary [...]

Lynnette Shelley has a gallery of celtic-inspired artwork. Scroll down to “Tentacle.” Fantastic piece of work.

This is too unfocussed, but I like the colours.

From J Clin Pathol 2006;59:1116
We regret that there was an error in the August issue… On p784, lines 1–2, ‘‘bone marrow’’ should have been replaced by ‘‘point of care glucose test (BM)’’. We apologise for this error.

A moving, learning sculpture called the Octofungi:

Hat tip to Cat Sparks via Jeff Vandermeer.
(I know it’s Saturday here, but one of the great advantages of living on the Western rim of the Pacific Ocean is having an extra 20 hours to make deadlines.)

Lewis Jaffe, “passionate bookplate collector,” compiles Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie. Here you can find bookplates from US Presidents and movie stars, Cecil B. de Mille’s self-parodying turkey bookplates, a rather grotesque proctologist’s logo, and page after page of superb little artworks. And there’s a bundle of bookplates from genre writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan [...]

Scott Westerfeld pointed out this, um, disturbing CNN headline.

Cheney to be in charge during Bush colonoscopy. Truly, is there nothing this man cannot do?

Martin Rundqvist of Aardvarcheology has collected a great carnival of archeological sites in local communities. I was going to write a piece about the Aboriginal middens around here but didn’t get to it in time. Anyways, it’s worth a visit but while I was there my interest was piqued by Martin’s recommendation of a book [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a rather disturbing article about naming babies. The pressure that some people put upon themselves is frankly incomprehensible. All parents agonise over names a little, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to parents who hire consultants to brand their children as if their future lives can be reduced to products [...]