This is very cool - make your web pages look and function better in Mozilla, but gracefully degrade to DHTML in other engines.

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"Super-adhesives that imitate Gecko feet have been in the lab for some time; now super-adhesives mimicking beetle feet are also being developed." Ain't nature marvellous?

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Yes, again. Who knows, this time it may make it beyond lab speculation and into actual products. Link via Warren Ellis.

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Slink up walls like a lizard-man (no sink plungers required)

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A Yunnanese Prince crossed the cloud covered mountains of Sichuan to visit the imperial court, he informed the emperor his kingdom lay 'south of the clouds' the Mandarin translation: Yunnan remains.

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This highly original Yunnan tour takes you to China by train through the mountains of Northern Vietnam and returns to Thailand by way of a cruise down the Mekong River between Burma and Laos.

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This remote, borderland province includes everything from wild elephants and tropical jungles in the far south to yaks and snow-capped mountains of the Tibetan Plateau in the north.

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Pollinators are very important to successful gardening. Invite them to your garden, keep them safe, and enjoy the fruits of a flourishing garden!

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