…children as young as eight had the remarkable ability to identify and characterize upwards of 120 different Pokemon characters. However, when the same rubric was applied using photos of “real” flora and fauna (animals and plants that lived in the children’s back yards) the results were simply horrendous.

Basically kids can remember Pokemon but not actual animals – the solution? Make Pokemon cards for actual animals (Gadsberry and I were way ahead of the curve on the animal top trumps) – anyone interested in submitting can check out the phylomon site or their Flickr group.

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Geisha from two twelve on Vimeo.

Something else to add to the Want list:

Part of the Adidas Originals Star Wars Collection and in my opinion the best of the bunch (they’ve got Artoo on the inside!).

The promo/ad thing doesn’t really work though IMO:

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