Lady Sif as a frog

The Enchantress and Lady Sif as a frog commission by Evan Shaner.

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Women running away from houses

Book covers from the blog Women running away from houses. Via.

*Previously: Headless women on romance novel covers.

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Origami Dracula

Dracula.

"The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter on the Strip is a thing of beauty. But"

LVRJ:

the south-facing tower is also a collector and bouncer of sun rays, which — if you’re at the hotel’s swimming pool at the wrong time of day and season — can singe your hair and melt your plastic drink cups and shopping bags.

Hotel pool employees call the phenomenon the “Vdara death ray.”

"In the latest in a series of unusual efforts to make Paris green, the city is now offering residents free sparkling water"

NYT:

to try to wean Parisians not from red wine, but from overconsumption of plastic bottles.

Inaugurated on Tuesday by Eau de Paris, the public water company, “la pétillante” — “the bubbly” — is a water fountain installed in a wooden hut of the Jardin de Reuilly, in eastern Paris, that delivers sparkling water.

“We chill the water between 6 and 8 degrees Celsius,” said Philippe Burguière, the spokesman for Eau de Paris, “and then we inject carbon dioxide into regular tap water to make the bubbles thin and tasty.”

"The District [of Columbia] makes it illegal for anyone to work as a 'sightseeing guide' without first passing a test and obtaining a special government license"

WaPo:

New regulations promulgated in July make clear what that means: It is illegal to “describe ... any place or point of interest in the District to any person” on a tour without a license. Scofflaws who engage in unauthorized description can be thrown in jail for up to three months.

"A British businessman who bought the Segway company less than a year ago died after riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate"

"A Segway was recovered from the scene."