Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street art. Show all posts

Islam Is Welcome Here sign



Islam is welcome here - - we are a tolerant nation.

Mark Evanier: "We sent U.S. troops to die on behalf of peaceful Muslims in Iraq and now the Fox News mob has declared war on the ones in this country."

No Horn Blowing Except for Anger (link roundup)



No Horn Blowing Except for Anger. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. "Disney has shifted gears from a soft to a hard sell for 'Phineas and Ferb.'" Via.

2. Download Rudy Rucker's The Ware Tetralogy for free (pdf). Via.

3. Tucker Stone rips apart The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. (My book group is reading The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo right now, but I refused. Why do so many people like spending their free time reading graphic depictions of sexual assault?)

*Previously: Perry the Platypus cake.

*Buy Phineas and Ferb toys at eBay.

This should convince you to stop drinking sugary drinks (link roundup)



Photos of sugary drinks next to food containing the equivalent amount of sugar. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Tweet and win an iPad.

2. Someone divided a New York City street into a side for residents, and a side for tourists.

3. Clever, subtle way to suggest someone see a shrink and that their "illness" is all in their head. Via.

*Previously: Sugar batteries.

*Buy pedometers at Amazon.

Super Mario Bros. in the real world (link roundup)



Street sign hacked to say, "Sorry Mario, your princess is in another castle." Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. The "Ant Tribe" - - Chinese college graduates living in the outskirts of Beijing who can't find a job.

2. A zombie satellite adrift in orbit could interfere with cable tv coverage in the US just about the time of the Lost series finale.

3. "There’s a reason elite schools speak of training leaders, not thinkers—holders of power, not its critics." Via these sites.

*Previously: If Super Mario Bros. was made today.

*Buy Nintendo toys at eBay.

Improv Everywhere reenacts Ghostbusters at the New York Public Library

The New York Public Library invited Improv Everywhere to perform at the library as a means of cheering people up in the face of budget cuts. IE agreed and decided to perform as the Ghostbusters.




Guard: Sir, what are you doing?
Rodgers: Um… haunting the library.


















*Previously: Library trucks with style.

*Buy Ghostbusters toys at eBay.