Links for September 28, 2007

In a rather scary story, a child in China was diagonised as having grass growing in her heart. The explanation being offered is:

The baby must have inhaled some grass seed into her lungs. The seed, finding the environment suitable, started to grow.

Doesn’t sound true at all, grass needs sunlight to grow and lungs are not the sunniest places around. But then, my expertise in such matters is rather limited.

Head over to FT for a neat flash animation on the housing mortgage problems in the U.S. One of the simplest explanations around. (Via Urbanomics)

Want more forest cover? Fuck for it. Totally NSFW. Probably the most satisfying idea to save the enviornment. Ever. (Via The Madhat)