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color combo toy

Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc.– Search photos on Flickr by color combinations. [via Gaal]

Go on, do flesh tones, I dare you.

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Not Johnny Depp’s Chocolate

Via Lucius Sheppard:

here’s a really awesome action sequence from the movie Chocolate, starring Jeeja Yanin, about an autistic girl with a gift for kicking butt. You can watch the entire movie on youtube–it’s not great, very thin plot, tho it comes from the producers of Ong Bak, but it does show that Jeeja has what it takes to become the female Tony Jaa.

I say torrent and watch the entire movie – this is part 8 of the 9 parts on YouTube, so spoilers the (not unpredictable) ending before the action starts.

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Hurricane Pictures

The short – but eventful – life of Ike – The Big Picture – Boston.com

[via John Rogers]

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Name toys

via Richelle Mead‘s blog, two cool toys for playing with names. Most awesome is the NameVoyager, which lets you query a name’s popularity over the decades. It’s cool how my mother’s name peaked in popularity in the 1940s while my sister’s name peaked in popularity in the 1970s. The popularity of my brother’s name has been dropping since the 1880s, with an occassional smaller rise in the 1950s. Our statistics are more complicated than that because we’re Israelis, and I think my brother’s bilingual name had some more popularity here.

There’s also nymbler, which recommends names based on “inspirations”.Plug in my name (which is too obscure for any name database), and it will recommend assorted rare and special names, mostly starting with “D”. Plug in common names, and you’ll get common names as recommendations.

Also, here’s something that shows you how common surnames are in various countries, the worldnames public profiler (not that great a name for an app; barefoot shoemaker and all). Using this, I learned that Dimet is most frequent in France and Sweden. Go figure.

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Toughen yourself by braving the wind and the waves


via same jwz post as the last, a site that inserts your face into classic Chinese propaganda posters. Blogging it for the high resolution poster images.