Why Tourists get a Bad name
A collection of pictures. Not safe for work. (Thanks Glenn L )
http://www.rickworld.us/bad_tourists.htm

Shoe Lacing Methods
How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe? On an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace though those 12 eyelets — nearly two trillion.
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm

3d Models of Escher's Impossible Drawings
It may come as a surprise for some, but many of the so-called 'impossible' drawings of M. C. Escher can be realized as actual physical objects. These objects will resemble the Escher's drawing, of the same name, from a certain viewing direction. The link below presents some of these three-dimensional models that were designed and built using geometric modeling and computer graphics tools.
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/

“She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon..”
—Dave Zobel, Winner of the 2004 Bulwer-Litton Fiction Contest