Ball jars, via.
This photo reminds me of my favorite Garrison Keillor track…
There are about 1 084 979 126 sheep in the world - an average of one sheep for every six people. Most people think New Zealand has a high sheep to person ratio, but the Falkland Islands has a much higher ratio, 233 sheep per person, compared with New Zealand’s 10 sheep per person.
I wish I had 233 sheep. I don’t like sharing with 5 other people.
Fold out anatomical chart of a pig, from Bacon and Hams, a book published in 1917. You can find the whole book, Flash style, here.
Minimum Wage Machine, 2008, by Blake Fall-Conroy
The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches)
I had this bookmarked to make a post, and now I can just hit reblog. Thanks :o)
Also: Wow, Blake Fall-Conroy. Very nice.
I want your handwriting.
Have you ever considered how strange it is that handwriting fonts have come to convey a kind of folksy authenticity in the design lexicon of our age? It’s disingenuous. Handwriting fonts - especially the ones you see everywhere (Comic Sans, Papyrus, Lucida Handwriting) - are mechanically reproduced and manipulated into a kind of cloying, fake, plastic perfection.
Penmanship is mostly a lost art - it is (rightfully) taught less and less in school, and the opportunities for people to see your handwriting are few and far between. As a result, modern handwriting looks really cool. What’s authentic and charming and inviting about real handwriting are the little imperfections that prove it came from a real person.
SO - I have decided to become a collector of handwriting.
Here’s how it works:
- You reblog this or email/Facebook me
- I’ll arrange for you to pick up a template
- You’ll fill it out
- I will create a TrueType font from your handwriting and send it to you
As I collect handwriting, I will periodically post things rendered in the handwriting of the donor - things they have taught me, important aspects of our relationship, jokes they have told me… we’ll see.
Please donate today.
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Eight hundred and seventy something reblogs…wow.
Crackpot: God watches you while you're watching porn!
Passerby: God is a pervert?
(via cjernigan)
…But yet a 10-12 page lab report is old hat.
We start
brainwashingtraining them rather young.
wtf…?
The Co-Prophet of the End Times reminds you, “Please do not expect to be raptured if you are into fornication.”
The best part is the giant microphone stuffed into his coat.
This Is Our Horrible Future, You Should Stare At It of the Day: Standing at the alter, a mere moment after being pronounced married, Dana Hanna turned to his now-wife Tracy, leaned forward… and pulled out a mobile device so he could update his relationship status on Facebook. Oh, and also send out a quick tweet to let his followers know where he at.
Up Next: Ustreaming their wedding night.
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On the spot divorce.
