Totally made me smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWDTomtjGms

Courtesy of Monique's amazing art-and-life blog, Meristem Studio, I stumbled across this print on Etsy. It's gorgeous. Monique referenced it as haunting, and I'd can't say it beter.

http://meristemstudio.blogspot.com/

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=19720457

Via Iconoculture:

"Part wall of shame, part blame game, part dark comedy — the online photolog ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com is straightforward data wrapped up in a complicated package of consumer emotions."

In the photo is a meatloaf cake, the frosting is (presumably) mashed potatoes, the decorative lettering atop? Ketchup.

I was so proud of my super healthy buffalo meat loaf from last week and after seeing this, I kinda wanna die. Ditto on the bacon-and-fudge danish I saw.

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

On solstices and equinoxes we do a 108 sun salutations in the yogic tradition. During medaitation, when I'm silently spinning the beads on my mala, I have 108 beads before my guru bead.

But why? When one of my student's asked, I gave a few of the stock answers I knew off the top of my head (proportionate distance between the sun, most common denominators, etc).

Here's a good read.

http://www.hknet.org.nz/108meaning.html