Continuing last weeks fine tradition here are some things that you might have missed from neatorama this week.





That's a living wall, and it looks like something that would be awesome to have in your foyer. Although I do wonder about mold and other allergens that it might introduce to the air. Speaking of vegetation how about a global warming mug that shows the destruction of land masses as it gets "warmer."




With all this reduction in land mass one might expect to see new dictators, and they will no doubt come from many different backgrounds. Take for instance the case of Pol Pot.

Before he became a world-famous war criminal, Pol Pot was named Saloth Sar. As a young man, Sar studied carpentry and radio engineering, but proved a poor student so he became – what else? – a teacher. (And you thought your classrooms were scary.) From 1954 to 1963, Sar taught at a private school in Phnom Penh before being forced out because of ties to communism.

Ever fond of alliteration, Saloth Sar became Pol Pot and devoted himself full-time to Cambodia’s Communist Party, eventually becoming the party’s leader, and by 1975, his Khmer Rouge guerrilla army had overthrown the same government that once fired him.

In his four years of rule, Pot killed more than a million Cambodians. When the Vietnamese came to the rescue and invaded Cambodia in 1979, Pot retreated to the jungle, though he continued to orchestrate guerilla attacks until his arrest in 1997.

That's certainly some interesting fodder for a cocktail conversation at your local iBar.



And finally, what's this? The interior of a space ship? No that's just a Japanese church.