Have you ever seen an old monster movie and wondered what the anatomical assembly of these creatures might look like? Has dissecting frogs lead you to crave dissections of bigger and badder creatures? Do you dream about the biosphere of fictional creatures? Well someone has answered yes to at least one of these questions. Frederick Barr has a Flickr set full of the resulting diagrams mixed in with other vintage monster movie poster scans. He has some other nice stuff in his other sets too if you care to browse.

[Frederick Barr's Flickr set: kaiju eiga]

If you go to Beijing for the Olympics you can see some really expensive architecture. You can also find some cheap knockoffs – something China is infamous for.

As with retail, the architectural knockoffs can be just as amusing. Perhaps they don’t recreate the original faithfully but they give you something for the effort, even if a kind of commentary on the value of the original.

Of course these images show mimicry of the ‘birds nest’ and ‘water cube’ facilities built for the Beijing Olympic Games.

China is really big. There are a lot of people in china all sharing the same cultual context. One of the problems that emerges as a result is the fact that over a billion people there are sharing about one hundred surnames. That is starting to cause some difficulty in differentiating people. We can’t all have the same name after all. It would be rather inconvenient. They seem to have come up with one possible solution though – allowing parents to combine their surnames to give their children a compound surname. That seems like a decent solution in theory but only if you lose the misogyny.