Assorted Tech photos for your amusement

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Now that I'm it's time to dig through the two weeks of science feeds for interesting stuff I may have missed. Here's the first bit. As usual, click on the images to go to the source.

A CD in the process of being microwaved. Found on grinding.be, or go to this link to see a gallery of microwaved CDs.

Driveable plane, found on grinding.be.

Porcelain figurines by Louise Hindsgalv. Found on grinding.be.

Pooktre is the art of growing trees into predetermined designs, such as the chair featured here. Found on grinding.be.

Just because. Found at Wacky Archives, which may or may not be worksafe so best err on checking the site at home.

Comparison of the size of the infant cranium (black block) to the size of the birth canal. Found on io9.

Recent eruption of a volcano in Chili. Found on io9.

Concept art of Harvey Dent in the upcoming Batman movie. Found on io9.

No, this is not a scene from Firefly, but an image of the International Space Station. Apparently, the video library available to the astronauts contains not one episode or movie of Star Trek. Found on io9.

Exhibit of UAVs at the Smithsonian, one of which looks like a flying saucer. Found on io9.