For years we’ve admired the brilliant stickers, buttons, and shirts produced by Unamerican Activities (“quality rebellion at affordable prices”). So, when we came across a whole book about the stickers for $15 at Amazonwe though it was pretty sweet.
But what really sealed the deal was that we realized that it wasn’t just a book about the stickers but a book of stickers— 432 sweet stickers for fifteen bucks.
Continue reading Book review: Sticker Nation by Srini Kumar
A few weeks ago, we made these chocolate truffles for a party. Boxes and boxes and boxes of them were eaten, but it’s truly remarkable how few people stopped to read the fine print.
As a popular technology blog headquartered in Silicon Valley, we were lucky enough to get a chance to try out the final shipping version of the iPhone this week.
If you think that it looks somewhat different from the pre-release versions of the iPhone that were shown off at MacWorld, you’re right: Unlike those, this isn’t a prototype; it’s a genuine released product from Apple.
Continue reading Some hands on time with the iPhone
Violet Blue’s new “Blogger” tattoo reminded me that I have to let you all know about this awesome Hanukkah present from my mother-in-law: a book of temporary tattoos for librarians. Check this out: “I Heart Dewey Decimal System!”
Continue reading Librarian tattoos
In the mid 1990’s, many things were considered socially acceptable that no longer are. Among these are jokes about Lorena Bobbitt and/or Tonya Harding, anything having to do with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and internet humor mailing lists. I am guilty of the latter: From 1994 to 1997 I ran a daily humor mailing list called Quips, Quirks & Quarks, or more commonly QQQ.
The archives of QQQ are on one of my “old” web pages, where you can peruse this vast nearly-organized trove of treasure and trash. The quality of the material varies greatly, and the presentation is an excellent example of web 1.0 (or maybe 0.8 beta) design ethic.
Here are some samples from the collection:
We have seen a lot of graphics in this format recently; here is our contribution.
As we learned on BoingBoing this week, there’s an explanation about the origin of the phenomenon here.
My little sister Lauren, a member of the Evil Mad Scientists Junior Auxiliary, sent in these pictures of her Lego astronauts kicking back and enjoying life… on the moon. It looks like they’ve had to restrain themselves with some lunar spider webs to avoid trouble due to the low gravity. The combination of open goblets with the space helmets is a nice surreal touch.
I saw this sign in the long-term parking area of the San Jose airport, when we were traveling for Thanksgiving last year. I think that it’s a very insightful modification.
See more altered signs (where else!) in the altered signs pool on Flickr.
My co-worker Rich had this sign made.
In areas where there are potential hazards, it’s important to alert those who might not otherwise be aware of them!
See thousands of other stick figures in peril in the
stick figures in peril group on flickr.
You may have seen the list of state resident names. It’s a big list that tells you that a person from Texas is called a Texan, a person from California is called a Californian, and so on. However, you know and I know that there’s something wrong with the list; it just seems artificial. It’s like someone filled in the obvious ones (Iowan…) and then made up the rest.
Here, I present my corrected version of the fifty US state resident names.
