I signed in to my Gmail and saw a message at the top telling me of new themes which were available immediately. No more needing scripts and hacks to change the appearance of Gmail! There’s quite a few, but probably the most interesting is the theme named Terminal:

I like them! “Terminal” looks a lot better (no grey) but obviously I have to protect my email address and emails. You can read more about themes over at this Gmail blog post. I’ve got to hand it to them, they’ve been very busy lately.

I don’t know if these are real or not, but mirrored in the gallery under “Continue Reading” at the bottom of this post are some concept artwork from the upcoming Terminator sequal, Salvation. Just from those I’m getting excited looking forward to seeing this movie. Pictured below is the T600, probably the beta version of the T800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

You can read the original article here for more information about the images. The images came from a rather unusual place. They appear on the website http://t1000salvation.com/ in full resolution in a subfolder of a folder named sony, I did a bit of research to find the domain belongs to a Michel Valenzuela (whoever that is), but the artwork is truly stunning, especially the motorcycle designed by Victor James Martinez,

Uhh.. Incredible? I’d say these have to be the whacked out weird fest champions (those kitties were so cute though). I present the depressing artwork of Tetsuya Ishida.

From Virtual Japan:

Tetsuya Ishida (石田徹也) was a Japanese artist working in Tokyo. He was born in June 16, 1973 in Yaizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He died May 23, 2005, at the age of 31. His paintings were known for their dark portrayal of Japanese life. The characters in his painting appear unhappy and often their bodies are in pieces or part of some machine or other object. The artist left behind about 180 works created during his 10 year art career.

You can view more of Tetsuya’s work over at toxel.com.

Village of Joy has put together a great list feauturing fifty strange building from across the planet. The one below (Nakagin Capsule Tower) reminds me of some of the buildings that appeared later in the awesome classic game “Transport Tycoon”:

D’oh the website broke. You can try the link here, but it says their bandwidth quota has been exceeded. Might possibly work next month?

Have a look at this sign:

Pretty basic bilingual sign, but the interesting thing? The other language (Welsh) actually reads: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.  Hit this link via BBC News to read a few more and find out how this hilarious mistake happened.

Ah, ultra shiny cars. Something which never gets old. That’s why it’s a good thing that Global Motors brings us four great examples below:

(Here’s the links: Chrome SLR McLaren, Nissan GT-R in matte gold, Chrome Lambo LP640 and a Gold Plated 911).