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NEW7WONDERS.COM
“This website offers you the opportunity to participate in the first global vote to elect the new 7 wonders of the world. Be a part of history!”

Thanks Tintu!

This year Bellman (the ad agency Pieter works for) made a gorgeous e-card for their clients. Its a sweetly illustrated festive Flash game that the web department secretly busied themself with. Thought it was a nice one to share…

Get your fingers ready!

CHAVOPOLY
The Monopoly game for Britain’s new welfare generation

Rumba-Kali Radio
“The web’s oldest and best African hip hop webcast as started out in 1998 at Africanhiphop.

New tracks from all over the continent playing back to back. We get supplied with the latest tapes, most of which never get to be released internationally. We’ll regularly add new tracks and interviews. You can submit tracks, see our site for the mailing address.”

Click here to listen directly (mp3 stream, will work in Winamp, Mediaplayer or Realone player).

Yummy Wakame LOVES this station!!

Up here in the Northern hemisphere, today is the shortest day of the year.

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE everyone!

Stonehenge marks winter solstice
Hundreds of people gathered at Stonehenge early this morning to celebrate the winter solstice – a pagan tradition. More than 20,000 people usually attend the annual summer solstice celebrations at the site.

Solstice celebration ancient Plains ritual
Long before the first Europeans walked on Kansas soil, American Indians celebrated the prairie and its December night skies. In some cases, these native people of more than a thousand years ago dug intaglios, or animal figures, into trenches along hillsides across the state and built council circles for dancing and sacred ceremonies. The winter solstice, Dec. 21, held tremendous significance to these prehistoric Kansans.

FEATURED BLOG: All these links can be found on Studio 93:

• Michael Jackson’s Favourite Things

• Chatter Music Video
No it is not a joke, there is no hope for mankind. But still, its funny!

• Shut Up Already!
Two designers have made these warning cards for obnoxious cell phone users, available in convenient PDF download-and-cut-out form…

“DEAR CELL PHONE USER, We are aware that your ongoing conversation about your husband’s vasectomy is very important to you…”

MicroMedia Paper
“This snapshot-sized display can play music, movies, and more.
Price: $50 for a 10-pack.
Designer: Lunar Design.
Executive Summary: Wafer-thin display and storage finally brings digital media to the familiar format of paper
Tech Barriers: Flexible, disposable displays; radical new GUI; millimeter-thick batteries
Target Market: Photo-sharing families, 35 and up, plus execs wanting fancy business cards
Projected release: 2015″

HERMIT CRAB BLOG
“Hermies for Christmas

Hermit crabs are the ultimate impulse purchase pet and Christmas time is no exception. Hermit crabs are not the ‘easy, carefree’ pets they are promoted to be by pet stores. Its not as simple as buying a plastic box and putting the crab it in. In fact, hermit crabs require just as much, if not more, care than your average small pet. Before you pick up a hermit crabs for Christmas morning please consider the following:

Land hermit crabs can live a minimum of 30 years in captivity. This is the age of the oldest pair in captivity that I know of, and they are still going strong. Hermit crabs are believed to live up to 70 years in the wild. Are you prepared to own and care for this ‘throw away pet’ for that length of time? Will your child be willing to care for this pet into adulthood?…”

FEATURED BLOG: All of today’s links were found on Enschede a/zee:

Working from an office can make you feel like a hamster in a cubacle maze. The boredom can drive you to extremes… like these hamsters at Office Olympics…

Need to know if you’re going to need a jacket when you go outside?
Do I Need A Jacket . com

For the person who pierces everything – pierced glasses! Extremely easy to install and comfortable to fall asleep in.

This guy made a V8 engine out of PAPER and it actually runs… check out the movies. So clever!

FeralChildren.com
“Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who’ve grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. In some cases, children are confined and denied normal social interaction with other people.”

2PAC – Keep Ya Head Up

“You know it makes me unhappy (what’s that)
When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy
And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
I think it’s time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women
And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies, that make the babies
And since a man can’t make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one
So will the real men get up
I know you’re fed up ladies, but keep your head up”
~ Full lyrics

Amanda’s Amazing Spirit Photos