Update 2008.11.13 – Thanks Thanks Tonu Samuel and Dragonbeard! It’s now 61!

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Below are a showcase of how gender is captured in just a few strokes. Enjoy.

1. Lausanne, Switzerland



2. Patong Beach, Thailand



3. Somewhere in Taiwan



4. Somewhere in UAE & Oman





5. FH Augsburg



6. Pamukkale, Turkey



7. Somewhere in Iran



8. Café-Tabac-Brasserie “Le Jeanne d’Arc”, rue Jeanne d’Arc, Paris





9. Frog Pubs, Paris





10. Disney Sea





11. Hungarian Academy of Sciences





12. Somewhere in Paris





13. UrbanAngel, Edinburgh





14. Apple HQ





15. Somewhere in Ghana, Africa





16. Shinjuku bld





17. KLCC Malaysia





18. On the ferry to Jerba





19. Somewhere in New Zealand





20. Somewhere in Australia





21. At the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame





22. Siam Center, Bangkok





23. Desenzano, Italy





24. Toilet Smurfette & Smurf





25. Aum Thong Thai Restaurant, Hove, UK





26. Sheffield Park Cafe, UK





27. Red Roaster Brighton,UK





28. Nou Nou North African Restaurant, Brighton





29. Somewhere in Paris



30. Unisex at Cliff House, San Francisco, California



31. Somewhere in Barcelona, Spain



32. Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood, CA





33. Petit Palais” museum in Paris



34. Kloschild, Männer, Café in Prag





35. Somewhere in Bangalore





36. Fontainebleau, Archives nationales, France









37. Home Slice Pizza, Austin





38. Somewhere in Atlanta Georgia





39. Magasin Apache, Paris



40. Honolulu Airport





41. Somewhere in Seoul, Korea



42. Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France



43. Somewhere in Bremen





44. Seoul Garden Restaurant, NYC





45. Unknown





46. White Dog, Philly





47. HonFest 2006, Baltimore MD



48. Somewhere in Ireland





49. Coyote Eatery, near Batthany Square in Budapest





50. Eggspectation in Montreal, Canada

A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution is a common part of everyday life. It was discovered in the US at around the 1890s, and derives from the practice of placing a red light in the window to indicate to customers the nature of the business. This is based on the biblical story of Rahab, a prostitute in Jericho who aided the spies of Joshua and identified her house with a scarlet rope.

Below are some of the more well known red light districts across cities of the US.

• Alaska

Anchorage
Spenard Road

• Arizona

Phoenix
Van Buren Street
Tucson
Miracle Mile

• California

El Centro
Adams Avenue
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard – Hollywood
Western Avenue – Hollywood
San Fernando Valley
Sepulveda Boulevard
San Francisco
Tenderloin

• Colorado

Denver
East Colfax Avenue

• Florida

Orlando
Orange Blossom Trail (OBT)

• Georgia

Atlanta
Metropolitan Parkway (formerly known as Stewart Avenue)
Macon
Broadway
Savannah
River Street
Warner Robins
Front Street

• Hawaii

Honolulu
Hotel Street

• Iowa

Council Bluffs
South 24th Street

• Louisiana

New Orleans
Bourbon Street
Baton Rouge
Plank Road

• Maryland

Baltimore
The Block

• Michigan

Detroit
8 Mile Road
Michigan Ave (Southwest Side)
Grand Rapids
Division Avenue

• Minnesota

Minneapolis
Washington & Central Avenue

• Nebraska

Omaha
Saint Marys Avenue/Leavenworth Street

• Nevada

Reno
Fourth Street

• New York

New York City
Hunts Point

• Oklahoma

Oklahoma City
South Robinson Avenue (between SE 29th and 44th Streets)

• Texas

Dallas
Harry Hines (Note: Way overpriced)
Houston
Bissonnet and Beltway 8,US 59S(Southwest Freeway at Hillcroft),Montrose

• Washington, DC

13th-16th streets between L and M NW
Vermont Avenue, NW

Do you drink beer? Lots of it? Or wine? Don’t know what to do with the empty bottles sitting at home? Celebrate, cause I have collected 15 ways to make use of your empty bottles sitting at home.

1. Put in some flowers, and make it into a mini flower pot in your office. Space won’t be an issue.




2. Put candle wax in it. Imagine the different colors of different bottles lighted all around the room.




3. Write a message, put it in the bottle, stuff it with a cork and throw it to sea. Hope for a love adventure. =P




4. When you feel angry, depressed, sad, stressed, suicidal or bitter, bring a dozen empty bottles to a private place of your own. Somewhere nobody goes to like a private beach spot, in the jungle or an empty car park will do. Find a spot by the sea, wall, tree or rock. Take 50 steps backward from the spot, hold a bottle in your hand, focus all the anger and hatred on the bottle, let it all out and with all your might, throw it. Hear and feel the satisfaction when it breaks. You’ll feel much better. =)



5. When you have guests around, reuse the bigger beer bottles as pitchers. Strip the labels and chill it in the freezer. It will take up less ground space compared to normal sized pitchers.




6. Give everyone a bottle to use as a makeshift rolling pin. Bake some bread together with friends and family. Strengthen some family bonds. Use it if you teach cooking.




7. Bury the bottles neck down at varying depths to form a border around plants, trees, beds.




8. Tired of your garden being filled with pots and flowers? DO something different like a bottle tree!




9. Tired of bricks and stones? Make a bottle house!




10. Use the really big ones as fish tank OR put smaller ones in your fish tank as decoration. Imagine colorful bottle among colorful fish.




11. Make ginger beer for christmas or thanksgiving and give it away in bigger bottles to friends and family.




12. Reuse them as chandeliers. This takes a bit of work. You may want to get an electrician to help out.




13. put your stationaries in half bottles. Pens, pencil, ruler, stapler, scissors.




14. Drinking glasses. Smooth the edges first, though. Ask your local hardware shop for the right type of sandpapers for it.




15. If you have guest bathrooms, fill the empty bottles with shampoo, conditioner or liquid hand soap for that personal touch.

Cutting bottles

• Dip a piece of common string in alcohol and squeeze dry, or as dry as it will get without dripping. This string should then be placed on the already marked glass and tied tight. Light the string and let it burn off. Immediately, while the glass is still hot, plunge it into cold water. Be sure the container of water is large enough to let the glass to completely submerge. Here’s the diy video on how to do it.

OR

• You can get a bottle cutter for less than $50.

  

After that, smoothen rough edges with abrasive sandpaper. =)

Salah Dance Video 2
Super cool dancing

Make a barbecue drip pan



To keep meat drippings off your barbecue coals, fashion a disposable drip pan out of a couple of layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Shape it freehand, or use an inverted baking pan as a mold (remember to remove the pan once your creation is finished). Also, don’t forget to make your drip pan slightly larger than the meat on the grill.

Clean your barbecue grill



After the last steak is brought in, and while the coals are still red-hot, lay a sheet of aluminum foil over the grill to burn off any remaining foodstuffs. The next time you use your barbecue, crumple up the foil and use it to easily scrub off the burned food before you start cooking.

Improve outdoor lighting



Brighten up the electrical lighting in your backyard or campsite by making a foil reflector to put behind the light. Attach the reflector to the fixture with a few strips of electrical tape or duct tape — do not apply tape directly to the bulb.

Make an impromptu picnic platter



When you need a convenient disposable platter for picnics or church suppers, just cover a piece of cardboard with heavy-duty aluminum foil.

Improvise a frying pan



Don’t feel like lugging a frying pan along on a camping trip? Form your own by centering a forked stick over two layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Wrap the edges of the foil tightly around the forked branches but leave some slack in the foil between the forks. Invert the stick and depress the center to hold food for frying.

Warm your toes when camping



Keep your tootsies toasty at night while cold-weather camping. Wrap some stones in aluminum foil and heat them by the campfire while you are toasting marshmallows. At bedtime, wrap the stones in towels and put them in the bottom of your sleeping bag.

Keep your sleeping bag dry



Place a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil under your sleeping bag to insulate against moisture.

Keep matches dry



It’s a tried-and-true soldier’s trick worth remembering: Wrap your kitchen matches in aluminum foil to keep them from getting damp or wet on camping trips.

Lure a fish



None of your fancy fishing lures working? You can make one in a jiffy that just might do the trick: Wrap some aluminum foil around a fishhook. Fringe the foil so that it covers the hook and wiggles invitingly when you reel in the line.