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Ah, Wednesday lunch. Time for some chum to chew upon. I'm not sure if there's a theme in these items yet -- perhaps you can find it.

• From the “Government Intrusion” Department: The New York Times has an interesting article on the National Children’s Study. This is a multi-billion dollar study authorized by Congress whereby the National Institutes ( Read more... )

It's amazing how some days a theme just seems to assert itself...

• From the “Be Kind, Rewind” Department: It looks like the VHS Cassette is going the way of other media: Polaroid Film, Cassette Tapes, Floppies and 9-Track tape, Punched Cards. Specifically, the last major supplier of the tapes, Distribution Video Audio, has shipped their last VHS ( Read more... )

C'mon, you knew it would happen one day. Elmo is threatening to kill:A Florida family says a cuddly, programmable Elmo doll revealed its dark side this week when fresh batteries were inserted ( Read more... )

According to this article in E! News, the new hot products at the 2007 Toy Fair are... Transformers and Care Bears.

What’s next? My Little Pony and Silly Putty?

Tefillin Barbie. The pictures and the captions are just wonderful.

Thanks to cellio for the link.

Update: The "Tefillin Barbie" was done by hatam_soferet, who is using her LJ to document a project writing a torah for UHC in St. Louis (which is where a good friend of my goes to services).

For her art class in Middle School, my daughter is doing a report on M.C. Escher. Whilst looking for some pictures to print, she found this representation of Escher's work...done in Lego:


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