Stuff that sparks ideas or imagination for me.
Courtesy of my friend Lori, a pointer to the best car magnet ever on northern sun’s site… the “support our pants” magnet.
I currently have two magnets on my car — a rainbow one, which I bought, and a Women’s heart health one I got free from Clarian for spending $43,000 of my insurance company’s money to have my heart fixed there. I figure the heart one I probably should slap on there, regardless of how I feel about the whole ribbon magnet phenomenon.
Worth1000.com put together a great photoshopping contest of old WWII propaganda posters.
Along the same lines, only with a political purpose, The Propaganda Remix Project has numerous reworked posters, including some for sale.
Seems like I’ve seen another link like this someplace, but I don’t seem to have it bookmarked.
UPDATE: I found the link; it was Another Poster for Peace. I wrote it before. I linked to the Miniature Gigantic site in that post as well – they have peace posters, too.
Yep, a google map application that shows where you’ll come out on the other side of the earth. Heh. I end up in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Just about where the Tsunami hit, after the earthquake. Uh Oh. Ididn’tdoit.
From Strange Horizons. yep, stupid is a good assessment.
I know I shouldn’t say this out loud, but I will: you could add several of the all-female, feminist dystopias from popular lesbian sci-fi novels into the list of “stupidest,” like Daughters of a Coral Dawn, and the one I read recently, Ammonite.
As annoying as boys can be, I really don’t think we should kill them all off, even if we do perfect that Parthenogenesis. We should keep some of them to lift heavy stuff.
A VW with a USB connection in the arm rest to plug in your mp3 player or memory stick…
Fun photoshop contest on what the world would look like if Goths were in charge.
Retro Crush has a cool article on how to beat the odds stacked against you when playing carnival games.
Check it out on the Baby Name Wizard.
Mine was on the ascent in the late 60’s when I got it, and it peaked in the late 80’s.
For those of you who want to heed Bill O’Reilly’s advice that the government can’t protect you, and you should fend for yourself, read up on Fafblog’s plan for emergency disaster relief, including: