Your face, our balls

This is one where the video has to speak for itself...

There is more on this at faceball.org.

My only question now is who in the office do I most want to smack in the face with a beach ball?

Credit: Doug

Artur, inside and out

Artur is a great source for interesting things, but this time he is the interesting thing.

Back in February 2007 he had a tumour removed from his ribcage. And, being the citizen of the Internet that he is, he not only described the process on a blog but also had photographs taken of the whole operation to add to Flickr.

Warning: these aren't for the squeemish... but they certainly qualify as "interesting".

Plus postage, packaging, and paper

How about buying a copy of Latin America IT Spending Patterns: The Latin America Black Book Q2 2004? A snip at just $25,000.00?

I'm not quite sure if this is a typo or the real price, but I'm certainly not clicking to buy and find out!

What really made me laugh, is the realisation that you are buying a pdf... so that $25,000.00 cost doesn't include paper and binding.

Credit: Splarka

The Difference 2

Yesterday I asked "Is it geeky? Or is it more nerdy?". Here's Cat and Girl to the rescue with an explanation of the difference.

I Will Derive

I think this is the geekiest thing I've ever seen. Bless...

Or wait! Is it geeky? Or is it more nerdy?

Credit: Artur

A pointed procedure

Here's one from Instructables that I don't think I'll be trying: "elf ears" body modification. The procedure involves cutting the ears, and forcing them to heal in a pointed shape. I actually think the final effect is very attractive, but... ouch!

For those curious about the vast range of body modifications out there, try the site of the guy who did this work - Russ Foxx. You may not want to go there if you have a weak stomach!

Personally, I think if I ever have the urge to make my ears pointy, I'll stick to the prosthetic version.

Silvered swindle

I love buying jewellery, but luckily my tastes don't run to anything expensive. I'd rather a string of glass beads than something with gold and diamonds. But I do enjoy silver, and have ended up with a pile of necklaces that desperately need cleaning.

So looking around for the best way to clean them, I came across "pristine2u", who sell "electrolytic cleaning plates". Which looked good, despite their badly spelt FAQs, until I found a handy video on YouTube:

I tried this myself today, and got great results. So I think rather than a £12 plate "specialy made from several diferant metals", I'll stick with a pound or so's worth of foil.