Echo Park Time Travel Mart holiday cards

Echo Park Time Travel Mart holiday cards by Keith Scharwath on sale here.

*Buy Essentially Odd: A Catalog of Products Created For and Sold at the 826 Stores at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Dead Space-inspired backpacks available for preorder. Via.

2. "Capable of reaching speeds exceeding 70 kilometers per hour, the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is one of the fastest mammals on earth. No large North American carnivore can match it for speed – some conservationists have go so far as to suggest importing cheetahs to special parks to reinstate the evolutionary race between pronghorn and extinct big cats." So, which animal kills pronghorn?

3. Gallery of photos showing off 826LA's Time Travel Mart.

*Buy Essentially Odd: A Catalog of Products Created For and Sold at the 826 Stores at Amazon.

Link roundup

1. Outstanding short story by Carol Emschwiller. I don't want to spoil anything by saying more. Via.

2. The job market for lawyers is so bad that a superior court in Northern California announced it was seeking attorneys willing to volunteer their time as a legal research attorney with a minimum 6 month commitment to the court, and its phone hasn't stopped ringing with interested applicants.

3. $7 and up t-shirts at Design by Humans.

Vintage TARDIS

The Man Ray Flickr Group has frequent photoshop contests. A recent contest featured this 19th Century French Guest House:



Here are two of the great entries:


Early Time Travel Machine.



Monstrous House.

The fishing boat and Halloween contests also featured several strong entries.

*Previously: Time Travel Mart posters.

*Buy Time Machines at eBay.

Red New York Map (link roundup)

One color map of New York by Triboro on sale here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Photo shows a time traveler? Analysis here.

2. Miranda warning for people considering going to law school (bottom of the post).

3. Superman on a horse.

*Previously: Mayan Interdimensional Star Map.

*Buy maps at Amazon.

Time Travel t-shirt

Two new t-shirts on sale at Threadless:


Time travel by Justin White.



Eyeball explained by Enkel Dika.

*Previously: Taximdermied guinea pig time machine.

*Buy Time Machines at eBay.

Chuffy and the Time Machine

Cormac McEvoy's gift idea for the Threadless t-shirt giveaway is Chuffy and the Time Machine, which is a taxidermied mouse driving a guinea pig time machine.

(Cormac, this shop has a few items for $50.)

*Buy taxidermy at eBay.

Marty McFly with Delorean paper toy; Justice League paper toys

First, the latest batch of Calling All Cars paper toys has been released, and includes this Marty McFly with Delorean paper toy by Filippo Perin.




Second, after being teased for ages, the Justice League paper toys Matt Hawkins designed for Arby's are finally in stores.

*Previously: Lego Delorean time machine.

*Buy Bizarro toys at eBay.

New Time Travel Mart posters

New posters by Amy Martin on sale for $20 each at 826 LA's Time Travel Mart.

*Previously: Essentially Odd, the 826 products catalog.

*Buy Time Machines at eBay.

Edward Scissorhands sculpture (and more)

Two great pieces from Gallery 1998's latest Crazy 4 Cult show:


Edward Scissorhands by Brent Nolasco. No word on availability yet.



"Founding Members Of The SICTT (Society of In Control Time Travelers)" by Nathan Stapley. Prints will be available for $50 each.

*Previously: Edward Scissorhands sucks at rock, paper, scissors.

*Buy Terminator toys at eBay.

New posters for 826La's Time Travel Mart

Amy Martin has posted work-in-progress images of three new posters she's creating for 826LA's Time Travel Mart.

*Previously: Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. goods available online.

*Buy time travel games at eBay.

Keep this poster in your Time Machine

In case you get sent back in time, you're going to want to have this scientific discovery cheatsheet. Designed by Ryan North, and on sale here.

*Previously: Time Travel posters.

*Buy Time Machines at eBay.

Real FEMA coloring book, fake FEMA coloring book

It's a close call as to what's more ridiculous. The real FEMA coloring book (download the whole thing here):


(She's like the kid from Lost. She read a comic book about planes crashing into buildings, and next thing ya know...)


or the fake FEMA coloring book (more pages here):



*Previously: Lawyer coloring book.

*Buy the "Gangsta Rap Coloring Book" at Amazon.

Photos of the Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Co.

I received an email that the Time Travel Mart in Los Angeles was hosting a special event January 10:

Are you suited for time travel? Are you sure?

Do you have the proper documentation?

Join us on January 10, 3 - 5 p.m., at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart for the official launch of our Pastport® Issuing Service!

Marc Horowitz of talkshow247.com will be interviewing applicants live on his 24/7 internet talk show. We'll be taking pictures (like our friend Wayne's here) and preparing the important documents you need to tour time.

In celebration of this momentous occasion, Pastports® are free to all interviewees on January 10! Please email Lauren at the EPTTM to schedule your interview time. Hurry! space is limited.

That started me on a web search of all things 826, which led me to this photo gallery of the 826 Store in New York, The Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Co.



Check out the photo gallery at Flickr, and read about the store here.

*Previously: Pirate gear on sale at 826 Valencia; Photos of the Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

*Buy "The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century" at Amazon.

Has time travel already happened?

1. Is time travel the explanation for the cancellation of the Super Conductor Super Collider:

Why the LHC? The authors argue that these sorts of time-violating interactions could be associated with whatever new particles we create at the LHC. For example, the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine that produced them, stopping the machine from ever running. As possible "evidence" for such a backwards-in-time effect, the authors cite the now-canceled Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)--a particle accelerator that was meant to hunt the Higgs and was partially constructed in Texas before Congress pulled the plug on the project. As the authors write in their paper: "Such a cancellation after a huge investment is already in itself an unusual event that should not happen too often. We might take this event as experimental evidence for our model in which an accelerator with the luminosity and beam energy of the SSC will not be built."

It's as though the Higgs plays the role of the time traveler who goes back to the past and murders his grandfather, thus preventing his own birth.

Read more. (Photo link.)


2. Scientists have found water deep in the Atlantic Ocean that's 407 degrees Celsius, 765 degrees Fahrenheit. It's called "supercritical water." Wasn't there a G.I. Joe episode about this?


3. Looking for a book? Why not go to a booktown.



*Find more weird news here.

*The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century is 32% off at Amazon.

Time Travel posters by Amy Martin for 826LA

You can buy them individually, or get the entire set and decorate a room like a super cool travel agency. Via.

(These are the posters 826 LA teased last week.)

Worm Hole Republic t-shirt

Available at Woot.