Last night's Project Runway: Reinventing the hobo

All the clothes made on last night's episode of Project Runway were made of newspaper. The trenchcoat above was the winner. I'd wear that. Check out some more below:

Guinness World Records 2010

The most tattooed senior citizen is Isobel Varley, from the UK, who covered 93% of her body with tattoos. Photograph: John Wright/Guinness World Records

The longest fingernails belonged to American Lee Redmond, who started to grow them in 1979 and carefully manicured them to reach a total length of 8.65m (28ft 4.5in). Lee lost her nails in a car accident this year. Melvin Boothe, also from the US, has a set of fingernails that had a combined length of 9.85m (32ft 3.8in) Photograph: Ranald Mackechnie/Guinness World Records

The fastest 100m hurdles wearing swim fins is 19.278 seconds and was acheived by Veronica Torr (New Zealand) on the set of New Zealand Smashes Guinness World Records at the Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland. Photograph: John Wright/Guinness World Records

The man with the most body piercings is Briton John Lynch, aka Prince Albert, who was counted as having 241 piercings, including 151 in his head and neck. Photograph: Richard Bradbury/Guinness World Records

Look at more on the official Guinness World Records 2010 site

Virginia Woolf's thought of the day: an honest reading

"At this late hour of the world's history books are to be found in every room of the house - in the nursery, in the drawing room, in the dining room, in the kitchen. And in some houses they have collected so that they have to be accommodated with a room of their own. Novels, poems, histories, memoirs, valuable books in leather, cheap books in paper - one stops sometimes before them and asks in a transient amazement what is the pleasure I get, or the good I create, from passing my eyes up and down these innumerable lines of print? Reading is a very complex art - the hastiest examination of our sensations as a reader will show us that much. And our duties as readers are many and various. But perhaps it may be said that our first duty to a book is that one should read it for the first time as if one were writing it.

One should begin by sitting in the dock with the criminal, not by mounting the bench to sit among the Judges. One should be an accomplice with the writer in his act, whether good or bad, of creation. For each of these books, however it may differ in kind and quality, is an attempt to make something. And our first duty as readers is to try and understand what the writer is making from the first word with which he builds his first sentence to the last with which he ends his book. We must not impose our design upon him; we must not try to make him conform his will to ours."

The Essays of Virginia Woolf Vol 5: 1929 to 1932 , edited by Stuart N Clarke, published by Hogarth Press.

Soy tomatera

In a big shift away from my recent LSAT-filled end of summer days, I woke up at 6:30 AM this morning to sell tomatoes for Tomatero Farm at a Farmer's Market in Danville, CA. I got hooked up with the strange gig through a friend of a friend. At the end of the day, I walked away $50 wealthier and with a mind filled with psychedelic veg: tie-dyed heirlooms, rainbow chard, green eggs , and tomatoes that grow without water (they have more flavor that way!).

Plentiful bills and many a quarter passed through my hands. I weighed gobs of golden beat orbs, speared tomato samples with toothpicks and encouraged passersby to try the dry farmed early girls (my favorite), green zebras, purple cherokees and yellow brandywines. The work was simple but satisfying, and now I can roll with some organic/local farming street cred on my side (and some free veggies from the neighboring vendors).

(another) why not?

Now I understand why so many people go to sci-fi conventions. I'd pay money to see this Hello Kitty Darth Vader dude.