Thursday Art Post

Just one thing to post this week, and that's Picture History. It is certainly cool enough to warrent a post of it's own.

"We have compiled a collection of thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years; pictures of our struggles, trials, and triumphs. We can only fully understand our history by gazing into the eyes of the people that made that history. Their eyes will tell a story that no words can. Browse the images by Theme, or use the search tool to find a picture or period of interest."

Broke & couchless? Build your own!

I thought this was amusing, and clever. It can't be all that comfortable though!

FedEx Box Furniture

There is a couch, table, desk, chairs, and even a bed!

Early Recorded Sounds

I thought this was pretty nifty. Early recording from 1888 and 1889.

Meow! My name is Aeryn. And I am apparently up for adoption!

I found this under my real name while wandering around the web. I was greatly amused. I don't think I'd make a very good lap cat, but the rest is pretty close to the truth! *L*

Aeryn's info...
Color: White Sex: Female Age: Adult Hair: Long

Aeryn is:
already spayed
good with cats
up to date with shots

Aeryn's story...

Aeryn is a stunningly beautiful girl. She is shy and takes a bit to warm up but is very loving once you have gained her trust. We really believe that Aeryn would be a lap cat in a home environment. She loves to play peek-a-boo from behind boxes and likes to game play with you when you go to pick her up. She has never shown any sign of aggression with people or other cats. Aeryn needs a home where she can truly relax and let her wonderful and sweet personality shine. For more information on Aeryn please call (502)633-XXXX or Melissa (502)220-XXXX

Contact this shelter to adopt Aeryn ...
Shelter: Shelby County Humane Society
Contact: Lisa L____
Phone: (502) 633-XXXX
- Let 'em know you saw "Aeryn" on 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com!
E-mail: XXXXXXXXXXXXX@bellsouth.net

Our Adoption Process...
ADOPTION FEE: $50.00
An Adoption Application must be completed for each potential adoption and approved by a shelter representative also an Adoption Agreement must be signed at the time of adoption. The welfare of the animals in our care is of utmost importance. We make every possible effort to ensure that our animals are placed in safe and loving environments.

What do you think? Are you up to the challange of adopting me?

Eric Conveys an Emotion

Eric Conveys an Emotion This site shouldn't be funny. But it is. Really!

3D Sidewalk chalk artist - Amazing!

Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his art on the pavement of England, Fra
nce, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium . Beever gives to his drawings an amazing 3D illusion.

You can view more of his art here.


This drawing of a Rescue was to be viewed using an inverting mirror.

Damen Station in Chicago - Digitally Created Art

Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority

This is really impressive! Close ups are avalible on the website.

Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program

Apple Offers Free Computer Take-Back Program


Apple today announced an expansion of its successful recycling program, offering free computer take-back and recycling with the purchase of a new Macintosh system beginning in June. US customers who buy a new Mac through the Apple Store (www.apple.com) or Apples retail stores will receive free shipping and environmentally friendly disposal of their old computer as part of the Apple Recycling program. Equipment received by the program in the US is recycled domestically and no hazardous material is shipped overseas. Earlier this week, Apple was named a Forward Green Leader, one of the top ten environmentally progressive companies recognized by the Sierra Club and its investment advisor, Forward Management.
Apple's free take-back program will extend Apple's existing US recycling program, which has recycled more than 90 percent of electronic equipment collected since 2001. Apple also operates a free drop-off recycling location at its headquarters in Cupertino for used computer systems and selected home electronics.
Information on Apples recycling programs and industry-leading environmental policies is available online here.




Go Apple! This is yet another great reason for me to make the switch to a Mac.

Read It? Watched It? Swap It

For Heather Perlmutter, a 41-year-old investment portfolio manager in Manhattan, the Web site with the whimsical name made perfect sense. Like many Americans, she found herself awash in CD's, DVD's and VHS tapes that were seldom if ever played anymore. They just took up valuable space in the Upper West Side apartment where she lives with her husband and two young children.
Then a friend of a friend told her about Zunafish, a new Web site that matches people with discs and tapes to trade and video games and paperback books, too.
"You feel like you're getting something special, that you're getting the better part of the deal," Ms. Perlmutter said. "Wow, somebody wants your stuff. I guess it's one man's trash is another man's treasure."
That was certainly the thinking of Dan Elias and Billy Bloom, the unlikely founders of Zunafish.
In a highly competitive era, independent tinkerers who are convinced they have a big idea can face big problems getting the idea to market. Even video games, once famous for whisking their creators from makeshift workshops to fast fortunes and expensive cars, are mostly made today by corporate teams of designers and programmers in sprawling office parks.
But Mr. Elias, a television news anchor in western Massachusetts, and Mr. Bloom, the owner of a volleyball league in New York City, both self-described amateurs at creating a digital service and company, spawned Zunafish, a singularly simple-to-use media trading site.
"We have no background in technology," said Mr. Elias, a 45-year-old native New Yorker who now lives in Northampton, Mass. "I think we always thought from the start that it was a big idea. There are hundreds of billions of dollars of idle media materials sitting in people's homes."
Mr. Bloom, 47, said of the company's humble origins, "If we lived in the country, it would have literally been created in one of our garages."
The site, which looks remarkably similar to a prototype Mr. Bloom sketched on notebook paper four years ago with Mr. Elias, trades only one-for-one items within the same category CD's, DVD's, VHS tapes, video games, audio books or paperback books. No item (for example, a seven-disc DVD set of the first season of the television series "24") is worth more than any another (say, a DVD of Peter Jackson's "King Kong").
Traders using the site determine the relative value of an item by choosing to swap or not. No one is ever forced to make a trade, Mr. Elias noted.
Each trader pays Zunafish $1 through credit or debit card for each trade. The site then calculates the postage costs and creates addressed mailing labels that can be downloaded and printed out. Each trader, Mr. Bloom said, is responsible for paying the postage and mailing the item promptly.
Like buyers and sellers on eBay, the traders on Zunafish rate each other, providing a confidence index for future transactions.
One notable feature is how easy it is to post items on Zunafish to be traded.
Mr. Bloom said Zunafish used a database that was updated weekly. Type in the name of an item or its universal product code (usually found near an item's bar code) or the I.S.B.N. number for books and the database pulls up a full description of the item and a digital photograph of its cover. If the match is correct, the user clicks O.K. and the item is posted.
There are other online trading sites, including Peerflix and BarterBee, which started last summer, that offer trading in similar categories. But other sites tend to offer a more limited range of items, or they use more complicated systems, requiring points and memberships to execute trades.

Orangoo spell check

Orangoo spell check

This little application lets you spell correct from any system or computer that has Internet access. Spell check is avalible in 28 languages.


I have to say, I find spell checking in 28 languages pretty impressive, although I doubt ever needing to spell check in anything but english.

CoA - The Church of Areaology

CoA - The Church of Areaology

Come on, you know you want to join!

The Original David Bowie's Area webpage