Nature of Man

… nothing that happens to Man is ever natural …

As a not too original reprise of the West vs East theme, here’s a sample western origami, using - as in many other western affairs - nothing other than money.
Compare to, for example, an eastern sample.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
- Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Ensure a job for life!

Differentiating from the usual stories about finding attacks on some algo that works in 2^127 instead of 2^128, these guys claim to have calculated in several hours (not years!) two postscript files with identical MD5. While waiting for more Real Life ™ stories of hell breaking loose due to hacked signed GNU/Linux binaries or whatever, read the story of Alice and her Boss (Hey, politically correct zealots, why not Andrew and his Bossess?)

Whatever thing we westerners consider a regular daily activity, there’s a chance that the Orient has already (or indeed, since several millenia) turned it into an art. From calligraphy to watermelon carving, from playing computer games to making coffee, from drawing comics to The Kama Sutra.

We westerner copycats can only think of … Starwars Robot Kamasutra?

Yeah, I know it’s off-season (that side of the Equator at least), but here they are.