Volcanic Activity

A very handy little chart via Information is Beautiful.

Awesome Toonage ... on Balloon

Balloon Bass

via boingboing

Record Player

An interesting promo package from an interesting company.

Image via treehugger.

Idea via GGRP Sound.

Awesome Re-Use

Some awesome re-use via SwissMiss.

But it could never happen now ...

Steven Weber assures us this could never happen now ... it is too 19th century.

Ooh! I know! Perhaps the Republicans are playing into some master plan wherein all power is gradually, systematically leeched from the masses and centralized into a snug, capitalistic, corporate version of an aristocracy, keeping The People perpetually strained but entertained by shiny yet easily broken/disposable/replaceable baubles and only minimally involved in the basic running of the country so as to provide the citizenry with an illusion of democratic participation and therefore allowing them to distinguish their lives from that of common, old fashioned serfs.

Read the full-article on the Huffington Post.

Word of the Day

Antiestablishmentdysentarianism
an·ti·es·tab·lish·ment·dys·en·tar·i·an·ism
[an-tee-uh-stab-lish-muhnt-dis-un-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm]
(noun)
1.) Vacuous anti-establishment fear mongering.
2.) What passes for anti-federalist rhetoric these days.