… is more stickers! :D
click on the image for an overload of notes on flickr. oh, and do you have stickers to trade? let me know! :)
(previous version, a couple of months ago.)
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the only upgrade this mac is getting…
can the queen be put to a better use?, asks graphic designer and illustrator jamie wieck. well, apparently the answer is yes – he build a set of really cute cards where the queen stamp plays an important (and original) role.
here’s what he has to say:
“Something unique about British culture is the annual sit down after a bloating Christmas lunch to watch the Queen deliver her seasonal message on TV. Well I that, and to watch somebody die/get married/get-married-then-die on Eastenders.
Inspired by this image of annual togetherness I created a Christmas card that needed the Queen herself to complete the image – after all Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the Queen.
But for the anti-royalists amongst you I figured it was only fair that the Queen should get a comeuppance of sorts…”
check out his website for lots of other good questions.
(via oh joy!)
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short reminder
“whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. boldness has genious, power and magic to it. begin it now.”
goethe
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baby steps, people, baby steps.
times are changing. just last week, from on day to the other, china announced the law that portugal dismissed a month ago: the ban on plastic bags.
from june onwards, there will be a tax on plastic bags at supermarkets and all thiner bags will be banned. tibet regional government wants to go a little bit further and ban all kinds of plastic bags in the region.
the planned outcome?
“With the right enforcement — that’s always the tricky part — and education campaigns, the upshot in China could be huge: China Trade News estimates that the country of 1.3 billion people must refine 5 million tons, or 37 million barrels, of crude oil every year to meet demand for plastic bags, which are used at a rate of 3 billion bags every day. Three billion. If that estimate is right, that means China uses as many bags in one month as the U.S. uses in a year–or that would mean that every day each Chinese citizen uses twice the amount of bags that each American uses.”
or “To put that into perspective, it would take Iceland about five years to use that much oil, but the USA would use that much oil in less than two days.“
which is huge. australia came to the same conclusion and is studying a similar measure to the one planned for china:
“Australia is also considering a plastic bag ban, for implementation in 2009. But as Planet Ark founder Jon Dee points out, “the fact that China desires to do it in less than six months, I think is a sign that … we could do it faster than that.”
He continues: “The fact that the biggest country in the world, the biggest users of plastic bags, are moving to ban them … is extremely important, because if it can be done in China it can be done in any country in the world.”
quotes from treehugger, shanghaiist and china time blog.
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SnūzNLūz
snuznluz (to be read “snooze and lose”) is an alarm clock that connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze.
the people at thinkgeek have finally found out a way to make you want to wake up on time. with the snuznluz, everytime you press snooze when the alarm goes off, you donate a minimum of $10 to a charity you hate.
the clock is connected via wifi (or cable) and comes with an embedded configuration browser utility, that lets you set your bank details and to which charity you’d like to donate.
for example they say, if you’re a butcher you might want to donate to PETA, and vice-versa.
i’m more of a morning person, so snoozing doesn’t happen all that often… but how efficient would this be to you?
seen on bb-blog. shame on me that i’m so late on this april fool’s joke… but it would be such a great item! :)