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Miss Cellania
March 25th, 2008
by Miss Cellania - March 25, 2008 - 2:21 AM

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5 Jail Hotels (Where You Pay to Be In Prison). For those times you want to spend your vacation seeing how the “other half” lives.
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It’s only natural to think a person’s attitudes and behaviours are directly related. Psychologists have found that the link between what a person says and what they do is not always that strong.
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Hypothetical intelligent dinosaurs. Quite a few scientists think about how things could have been so different in our planet’s development, and how future archaeologists may see humans as a historical blip.
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A 30-year-old Frenchman received the world’s first full face transplant last year. A victim of neurofibromatosis, he now has a new life ahead.
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Cat in a Bottle (NOT the bonzai kitten). He gets in all by himself. And out!
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The Language of the Fan. A Victorian woman holding a fan could send a message she wouldn’t dare speak out loud-if you knew the code.
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The internet can be a very scary place if you’re not prepared. Red and Blue explain how the internet is different from real life.
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Detroit Desolation. Photographs of abandoned places in Motown, in two parts.

Comments (3)
  1. You couldn’t mention a full face transplant without the obvious “new life A-HEAD” joke, could you?

  2. Wow… that fan article… if I were a man I’d NEVER be able to keep up. I’d have to have a cheat sheet.

  3. The fan website reminded me of the Victorian Language of Flowers. The women would need a cheat sheet to understand what message their wooer was trying to send them through the flowers they gave. It’s a pretty cool idea, one that was mentioned in the movie “Kate and Leopold.”

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