links for 2007-07-25

Eye-popping shots of rice paddies with artistic designs (including a copy of a Hokusai woodblock print) grown into them.

Can a pizza be evil? You’re thinking “noooo” right? What about a pizza with a stuffed crust? A crust stuffed with hotdogs? And with hamburgers on top?

Audio and still image slideshow accompanying an Atlantic Monthly article about Chinese manufacturing; a little dry in places, but I find the whole nature of Far Eastern economics fascinating – the scale, the speed, the quantity – with which places like Ch