In case the world wasn’t weird enough for you, we now learn that, “…the Amazon rainforest depends on dust from one tiny area of the Sahara desert to restock its soil with nutrients and minerals.” I love that the natural world is full of unlikely but completely necessary coincidences like this.

Things aren’t what they once were, you know. In the wake of reports that Google’s advertising revenue has already eclipsed the budget of the UK’s Channel 4 station, people are wondering if this spells the death of the British advert as art. Perhaps they will degenerate into the frantic imploring of their overseas equivalents, or perhaps they will simply migrate onto the internet along with the other content that television provides. Whichever happens, I’m pretty sure that I’ll continue doing a fine job of ignoring them all.

So far as I can tell, it’s a concept not a product. But I for one would be all overthis cool power cord that glows brighter the more juice you use. [fark]

The always fascinating BLDGBLOG has gorgeous pictures and literate speculation on the fantastically baroque architecture of offshore oil drilling platforms.

According to one Professor Todd Kendall there’s a negative correlation between Internet access and rape, and between violent movies and violent crimes: more of the former means less of the latter. Scott Adams runs with the idea in a proposal for the “worst candidate ever.” [mefi]