#13: Tiny Cities Made of Jello, MySpace Gets Active, Wikipedia Widgets, Le Sport.

Ever feel like owning a piece of the former Soviet empire? How about an entire city? How does a $3 million price tag sound? Sold! Well, maybe you can't have Moscow for reals, but you can own this 400+ square foot model of the city constructed by artist Efim Deshalyt in 1976.

If you're feeling a little more nationalistic, there's always San Francisco rendered in Jello. It's the latest project from Bay Area artist Liz Hickok and is definitely worth a view. I love that even the fog has been recreated (although presumably with a smoke machine). Doin' Mr. Cosby proud!

MySpace and voting are obviously two themes common to our site visitors, so it's fitting that the two are now officially in cahootz. The social networking site has teamed up with the nonpartisan, non-profit Declare Yourself to help get its users registered to vote. So what if they don't have anywhere near 100,000,000 users--every vote(r) counts.

For the other Wikipedia junkies out there (or at least the Mac-using population), here's a new widget to help keep your focus during those ever-tangential information gathering sessions.

A couple years ago, a Swedish band called Eurosport released a guilty-pleasure filled EP of bouncy '80s-inspired synth-pop. Two years and a name change later, Le Sport has finally delivered their first full-length, the appropriately titled Euro Deluxe Dance Party. It's a little more New Order and a little less Pet Shop Boys than their EP, even if there is a track called "If Neil Tennant Was My Lover" (and even if that track should be called "If Neil Tennant Were My Lover"... we'll let that ride on the ESL tip). Here is "It's Not the End of the World" in both MP3 and video form:


Unfortunately, according to their site they've just broken up. Way to tease, guys.

xoxox
Danny