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Yes, we've all seen Ratatouille.

Actually, from the few examples of French tourists I've met, that was not the case; they even put Mayonnaise in our stew. The horror, the horror.

It's been about ten years since I was a track & field athlete, but the cleats I wore for track running had a hard cleat plate under the ball of your foot and a soft, nearly weighless, heel.

I used to wear Adidas (fit my foot best), and the soles looked pretty much like this:
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/962/75009410.JPG

I would imagine that somebody makes a non-cleat shoe with a simliar design.

There is also a type of fish that have telescopic eyes:

The telescope fish

Telescopefish

I wonder if human bred species should get a mention:

Celestial Eye Goldfish

Bubble Eye Goldfish

I guess anybody is a supermodel compared to this.

I give you... TinFoil Hat V.2!

This + this = WIN!

N.B. Links are JPEGs.

It may have been a hardpoint carried over from the Lockheed D-21/M-21 (modified A-12s that had a recon drone ridding piggyback).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-21_Tagboard
http://www.habus.org/revealed/pics/gallery/a12drone.jpg
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/771/504805.JPG

For a bit of perspective I wanted to see what progress looked like back in the early days of aviation.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/top10/wright-flyer.jpg Here is the wrights' "space ship one"

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/786/506847.JPG Here is what the aircraft started looking like 4 years after the Wright's first flight.

It took 30 years for Jet technology to appear, I wonder if it will be a similar amount of time before we get private orbital cabability.

What if Microsoft had designed the train?

What if Microsoft had designed anti-baldness cream?

What if Microsoft designed a house?

What if Microsoft designed the Katana?

Can I get some AdSense money now?

Are you really naive enough to think that current crop plants are "natural" in any way?

Hint: they aren't.

"Natural" corn (maize).

"Natural" cabbage (also "natural" cauliflower, mustard, turnip, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and canola. Yes, these were all essentially the same thing at one time -- they all came from a group of closely-related species).

"Natural" carrot.

"Natural" apple.

"Natural" wheat looks like a lawn that's gone to seed. "Natural" squash, pumpkins, and melons are egg-sized or smaller.

Oh, and your "natural" olive oil? Did it come from olives the size of a pea? And how about that "natural" butter? Did it come from cows that this or ones that looked like this?

We've been Frankensteining food for millenia, my friend.

Ever notice how the "natural food" freaks are invariably brutally ignorant of the fundamentals of biology and the history of agriculture? In fact, I'd bet money that you've rarely been off pavement in your life.

I am a New Zealander and Fanny = Pussy. And thats the watered down word.

The opening ditty for the old US sit-com "The Nanny"(that we got here) chimed of her "falling on her fanny".

Pretty much I envisioned something like her standing like this and then falling forward.

For impending US tourists to NZ - a complete list.

Just so you know when some one says "Her flat mate trimmed her fringe and her fanny, had a squiz at the nick and gave her some plasters".