Unseen hand: You can watch this Picasso painting emerge in a two-minute time lapse video.

According to art blog Tinselman (The Mystery of Picasso),

In 1955, French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot had the most amazing idea. He would film Pablo Picasso as he painted 20 artworks, ranging from quick sketches to widescreen color oil paintings.

...Unfortunately, because of contractual obligation, almost all of the art created for this film was destroyed at the end of the production.

The mighty Reddies and other improbable monikers: Watching the college bowl games, I marveled at the silliness of burly linebackers and other very big men calling themselves wolverines (Michigan), eagles (Boston College), tigers (Clemson) and terrapins (Maryland). It sounds like cabin assignments at summer camp.

College Nicknames lays out all the monikers, and suggests these matchups could be even odder:
The Tomcats --- Thiel College (Greenville, Pennsylvania) -- against the Great Danes of the University at Albany (N.Y.) or any of a coupla dozen Bulldogs.

The Blue Boys of Illinois College vs. the Wonder Boys of Arkansas Tech.

The Whittier (Calif.) Poets could take on the Mastodons of Indiana University.

How would you like to be a Super Bee (U. of Baltimore), a Horned Frog (Texas Christian), a Hustlin' Owl (Oregon Tech), a Violet (NYU), a Student Prince (Heidelberg College, Ohio) or a Troll (Trinity Christian College, Ill.)?

Most apt: The Black Flies of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Imagine the mascot. Imagine them playing the Banana Slugs of UC Santa Cruz...

Cellphones for dummies: 'Phones for boomers & their parents' read the headline on one story about the no-brainer JitterBug cellphones. (Get it? The jitterbug was the dance of the big-band era and of American Bandstand.)

Not especially cheap, but the operators, they promise, will be courteous. (It's a proprietary network, with operators who'll program your phone for you or look up numbers.)

Calling it "Just a Phone" would have avoided the unfortunate association with the camp "I've fallen and I can't get up..." commercials of a generation ago.

Life in trompe l'oeil: Real Urban Art: In a Moscow suburb, "As an experiment the dull gray houses were painted to different colours."

Amazing close-ups make it seem like these folks are living in Lollipop Land.

Unhealthy glow: Undark and the Radium Girls details the sad tale of radium poisoning in the factory workers who painted the glow-in-the-dark luminescence on watch dials at US Radium.