After a long, entrenched, battle of resistance to Twitter, I began to wave a teeny, white flag this week so a friend sent me this image, just because.
I twitter as "iiberrizbeitia" May my colleagues quit with the nagging.
Strinberg and Helium.... (miseryeeee!!)
You can now send an email by an actual snail.
Cecil, Austin and Muriel are equipped with radio-frequency identification chips. As they creep across the tank at 0.03 miles per hour, they may accidentally pass an electronic reader which will then deliver the mail back into the Internet for the final leg of its journey. No telling how long the the snail's could have it, though.
Here's a fantastic ongoing project of posters designed by graduates of the University College of Falmouth in the UK to pass along advice to incoming students. See advice to sink in slowly or click the image to get to their Flickr set. 
You can now buy nauseating irony in fashionable pink camo!
A full text Bible ... in an adorable pink camo canvas cover and just the right size for young hands. Embroidered with a cross, flowers and a butterfly, this Bible is perfect for fashionable girls.
The cloth binding style offers kids a compact and cool look to carry their Bible to church, school, or on-the-go. It's durable, flexible, and incredibly cute for girls of all ages!
product actually sold here
A hobbit home in Wales.
Tiny cameras mounted on an eagle give us a glimpse of her flight.
Photo by Katie Blis
"Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt." Full article.
There can be no worthier crisis to achieve such special status in Google Earth than the genocide in Sudan. The Darfur layers recently added to the application allow users to zoom in on the charred smudges of what used to be homes and villages. It's haunting and powerful. It might even mobilize a global action/reaction. All good.
Even President Bush was moved by the visuals (the facts having, unfortunately, been heretofore explained to him with language). So George Bush has commended Google Earth. That's right. He has seen the power of one of Google's most awesome applications to effect thought, impact opinion and possibly promote a desired action... just a little whiff of scary there.
Architect Mitchell Joachim has conceptualized dwellings made of growing trees, shaping the form by using an ancient tree farming method called pleaching.
Stripped down and startling look at the inundation of commercial messages in 7 minutes of urban life. Studio Smack's Kapitaal
Sent to me by Steve, this wonderful bit...
"Trying to eliminate Saddam... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq,.. There was no viable exit-strategy we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unitlaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land"
—GHWB, A World Transformed, 1998
Flat Daddies and Mommies.
One of the more bizarro things I've seen lately. These pancake versions of family members serving in the guard in Iraq are making children feel SO much better, as you can see in the pic of these flat-looking boys.
"If there's something we can do to make it a little easier on the families, then that's our job and our responsibility. It brings them a little bit closer and might help them somewhere down the line."
--Sergeant First Class Barbara Claudel
Boston Globe article Guard families cope in two dimensions. (They even take them to confession??)
"We imagine trust to be a rather sophisticated response, but our observations indicate that trust might be a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure. Perhaps the signal bypasses the cortex altogether."
— Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov&mdashfull article
A number of graphic designers refused an invitation from Laura Bush to attend a breakfast ceremony at The White House in honor of their work. Their protest letter spurred a lot of response on the Design Observer ranging from thoughtful to reactionary and simplistic.
