Japan’s answer to crop-glyphs, more custom pushbikes, inflatable space-hotel pictures…

• 1 – Gotta Be Willing to Do What It Takes
  Sterling advice to would-be writers – if only I had some sleep hours to give up!
  (tags: projects effort graft journalism deadlines assignments magazine freelance articles writing)
• 2 – Image of Raijin (God of Thunder) appears in rice field
  And us Brits get proud of our crop-glyphs…looks like the Japanese (as always) have us nailed on technical expertise, not to mention scale.
  (tags: god rain glyphs circles images crop paddy rice Japan art)
• 3 – Gary Gygax, World Dictator?
  Charles Stross discusses his novel-in-progress, via the history of the worldwide web, roleplaying games, virtual reality and a whole lot more.
  (tags: reality virtual VR RPG internet web history literature fiction science novel Stross Charles)
• 4 – Cats have no sense of size…
  …why else would one have the balls to chase a bear up a tree? Apologies if you’ve seen this meme before, but I only ever caught the still shots. Go, cat!
  (tags: tree meme footage video intimidation fear chase bear cat)
• 5 – Custom Chopper Pushbike Gallery
  Yes, OK, so I may have become obsesed with these things. Anyone who can teach me to weld out there?
  (tags: images pictures gallery design hack lowrider DIY custom chopper bikes bicycle bike)
• 6 – Dark Side of Oz
  I’d heard this as a rumour before, but here’s the proof. Run ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and Floyd’s ‘Dark Side…’ in parallel, and watch the sychronicities explode…
  (tags: weird sychronicity film music album movie Moon Side Dark Floyd Pink Ox Wizard)
• 7 – Get political? We already are!
  Wired’s Momus on the politics of art and blogging, and more.
  (tags: culture statements communication satire Japan blogging art politics)
• 8 – Dirty old mine has rich seam of drugs
  Best. Headline. Ever. At least for today…interesting article too.
  (tags: treatment cancer pharmacology drugs chemicals new contaminated Lake Pit Berkeley)
• 9 – Bigelow self-portrait
  That prototype inflatable space-hotel has sent back pictures of itself, would you believe…typical tourist.
  (tags: pictures images enterprise tourism prototype module hotel inflatable space technology science)
• 10 – PlayPumps
  No, not a Western sex-aid, but a great invention for thirsty thrid world countries. This is the sort of thing we need to see more of, not blue-sky multi-thousand dollar solar power gadgets. Link via MAKEblog.
  (tags: technology sustainable invention engineering ecological community pump development Africa water)
• 11 – Murdoch taking MySpace down the tubes
  Will selective political censorship be the thorn-in-the-paw that topples MySpazz?
  (tags: video tubes Stevens Senator MySpace censorship networking social internet politics)
• 12 – Insurers to test implantable microchip
  Worried about spiralling insurance premiums? So are the people who make a fortune from them. Get chipped, or face life as a second-class citizen.
  (tags: panopticon futurism insurance surveillance tagging implant chip medical arphid RFID)