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Update:They have all been sold. Our neighbors had some Ridgeback puppies for sale.
I posted a page with more info for them.

Rhodesian Ridgeback Puppies

I am calling out a new meme. It is made possible by the saturation of information available now.

Genre Porn: a highly saturated, "over the top" example of a "style", "category" or "kind", where the form, technique, content, subject mater, tone or theme are exploited to the fullest extent possible with current technology or creation methods.

In order for Genre Porn to work properly, there needs to be a large number of existing examples of that genre to combine for full effect.

One example of Genre Porn is the upcoming Tarantino/Rodriguez film "Grindhouse".

Other examples are cable channels such as "The Food Network".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre

Popsci has an article about growing your own home, as does Physorg.

I have been talking about this for years. I always liked the idea of growing it from one seed or spore, similar to the way that a mushroom sprouts overnight from a spore to the top heavy structure that it is.
In my vision I see it growing very quickly and then hardening or petrifying to a usable structure.
You would have to feed it some sort of material perhaps some type of organic waste. (maybe soylent green)
Their process is probably closer to happening then my crazy idea. I think it would be a combination of bio-engineering and nanotech.

This is a different type of growing but in the same vein.

Contour Crafting will print one for you layer by layer.

squidoo post on Arborsculpture
Growing Home
The Chair that grew
Plantware
The man that grew his own chairs
Treedome

Pictaps is a cool site that allows you to create a stickfigure and then it animates it for you. Fun!
Here is my first entry it is called SKELETN

Toy Vault has a bunch of great toys but these Cthulhu plushies are awesome. I so want some of these.

This is a video of Halcyon Daze made by some friends of mine back in 1991.
The song Hot and Cold is from 1988. :)

If you like it there are more songs here:
Halcyon Daze @ Standard Records

this is a link to an awesome commercial for some ointment called Head On.I don't know what it does but I want me some. :)

The first time I heard this commercial I couldn't stop singing that stupid song!

Disco goodness on a gray Atlanta Wednesday.
Enjoy.
I've never heard of this guy Cerrone, but boy are these videos classic.