Flotsam, Jetsam for 06/25/2007

• Octogenarian Elvis through Phojoe Forensic Art. • Ugly postcards as sent by your grandmother, who secretly hates you. • Technoutopians have been telling me for years that on-demand book printing was coming to book stores any day now, and it looks like they might finally be right. • Betelnut girls re a unique part […]

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• Octogenarian Elvis through Phojoe Forensic Art.

Ugly postcards as sent by your grandmother, who secretly hates you.

• Technoutopians have been telling me for years that on-demand book printing was coming to book stores any day now, and it looks like they might finally be right.

Betelnut girls re a unique part of Taiwan culture. They sit in brightly-decorated glass booths wearing skimpy outfits, and sell cigarettes, drinks and betelnut to passing drivers..

• Astronomers look to the gravity wells around quark stars for a fifth dimension, which is — of course — a dimension filled with cosmic Lovecraftian worms.

• Art made out of cocaine and sugar, good enough to snort.

• The untold story of Japan's atomic bomb.

• After the death of the reigning king, Elwood becomes the world's ugliest dog.