Month: August 2007

[Make your work look more like a movie poster](http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/best-movie-effect-photo-tutorials-photoshop/).

Coming Soon: [a documentary about an election for class monitor between three eight-year-olds](http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/08/11/independent-lens-returns-in-october/).

[Eight unauthorized Harry Potter books from China](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/opinion/10potter.html?ex=1344398400&en=0fce70e4a81b180b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss). ([Via](http://www.kottke.org/07/08/owls-lost-in-translation), which has one of the summaries if you don’t subscribe to the NY Times)

A [papercraft steam engine that really works](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/10/papercraft_sterling_.html).

[Perhaps this new uniform could have given the Empire a happier ending](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/dork-fantasies/sexy-stormtrooper-makes-me-rethink-hatred-of-the-empire-288411.php).

Another good idea to save electricity: [streetlights that dim when the moon is full](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/bright-ideas/lunar+resonant-streetlights-only-shine-when-the-moon-doesnt-288332.php).

[A juicer with an innovative design](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/kitchen-gadgets/juicer-hugs-countertops-but-look-out-288306.php).

[How to make glow-in-the-dark tomatoes](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/just-not-eating-them/make-glowing-tomatoes-at-home-288187.php).

[Venetian tourist vendors have tourist and rude tourist pricing](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/10/venetian_merchants_h.html).

[These speaers from Grundig look eerily like something from Star Wars](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sur_round-sound/grundig-to-re+release-audiorama-speakers-for-100th-anniversary-288091.php).