unfortunately not online visible:

And now, a brief history of chocolates for chocoholics (we know who we are ) and non-chocoholics alike.


...... a more fun and chocolatey illustration of the brief history of chocolate in chocolate stamps:

Not so yummy but interesting in terms of pollution:

Albatros autopsy

a good thing I don't eat albatross........



Well folks, it’s that time of year once again for Igloo building……


By DUMMIES FOR DUMMIES


By the PROFESSIONALS

interesting use of reverse photoshop

this is really amazing and worth a peek:

Sand Animation

hobglobin on Nov 28 2009, 02:07 PM said:

But...Africa is a continent, not a country. By rights, North America should get to include Canada and Mexico, too.

lab rat on Dec 2 2009, 11:04 PM said:

but Africa is still bigger compared with North America even including Mexico...

U can put whole of Africa in Asia then. . What would anyone get by proving Africa is bigger than China?

Also Alaska is missing..., and Scandinavia not complete and Madagascar missing too.....but that's not the point...it's to show (especially for European and American people), that Africa is really huge and not only a quite big but homogeneous place. In Europe and America people often just speak of "Africa" as a whole, and there is no room for differences. But showing it's actual size may help to avoid this "one-fits-all approaches" (e.g. Africa as synonym for war, aridity, AIDS and/or poverty). BTW sometimes in Europe, about Asia is similarly talked as if there is also no heterogeneity and differences.