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Here’s a quick-and-easy “warning: low ceiling” sign… a playing card.  You can check out other everyday items for innovative solutions at atelier v. (in German, but you can click through the numbers to browse different ideas).

For a bit of an amusing commercial, check out this one for Sony’s Bravia (a color LCD TV).  It’s hard to tell what the advertisement is for, but more importantly, it’s a pretty awesome display of color.  Exploding color.  Exploding paint.  All over buildings.

Rotterdamm, NL is looking forward to welcoming a Sustainable Dance Club using rather novel Energy-generating Dance Floors.

“The club they envision will feature energy-generating dance floors (excellent way to extract kilowatts from energetic clubbers), toilets that flush with rain water, walls that change colour as a reaction to temperature changes, a rooftop garden and other elements that combine to create a sustainable clubbing environment.”

Not quite Freddy vs Jason, but in the Everglades there’s a new battle for the position of “Top-of-the-Food-Chain”: Python vs. Alligator. In the latest round, a Python “won” against the alligator… although it ended up exploding while attempting to consume its victim. If the python survives next round, we may be doomed…

Did your foot get bitten off by an alligator?  No? Looking a better prosthetic foot anyways? Check out this New York Times Interactive Feature that steps through how a $12,000 “intelligent” prosthetic foot works…

Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires!

Smokey Bear Website: the main site, educating kids about the dangers of campfires

The Smokey Bear Valut: looking at the history of Smokey the Bear as the spokesman for campfire safety.