8/10 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS

Britt Robson reviews Big City Rock at the Varsity and X at the Fine Line at Culture To Go.

THESE DAYS

A lunchtime parade of topless porn stars down the main street of Auckland, New Zealand, called "Boobs on Bikes," has been given official approval on the grounds that no indecency laws would be broken.

An unpopular pigment used by artists in the 18th Century, cobalt green, could lead to more energy efficient, faster computers by manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do useful computational work without needing to be supercooled.

Arlington (TX) School Board members have drafted a new dress code that outlaws cleavage.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Perry032 is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota. Read his online research journal (with a little Friday Poetry Blogging thrown in) at Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

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TIME WASTERS

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night created using Legos

An obsessive cat totally mesmerized by flushing the toilet

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I have hallucinations with doughnuts all the time. I'm obsessed. I get horny when I eat doughnuts."

-- ex-Wilson Phillips singer and Beach Boys spawn Carnie Wilson, enjoying her breakfast way too much