If you were a tree, what tree would you be?

Being such an absurd question, I always figured once I got rich and famous and Barbara Walters asked it of me, I would answer with the appropriately absurdist, "a toiletry." However, not only is the question no longer absurd, it isn't even a theoretical question.

Forget those cold gravestones, now you can get your human DNA bonded within that of a tree courtesy of Biopresence. Dubbed as 'Living Memorials', the company has figured out a way to encode human DNA underneath the DNA of a plant cell without damaging it genetically. Unfortunately for us, you can't have one for now until the company is operational. Meanwhile, you can catch a glimpse at the Science Museum in London till mid 2005. [look out for the bathrooms, though -a]

Also via Sensory Impact, an amazingly beautiful design for a Baha'i temple in Santiago, Chile.