Stalking Venus

LOL, this is great. Very cleverly done, and true on a number of levels.

We’ve shown you a collection of photos from Cape Town’s yesteryear once before. Now, with many thanks to Jeremy Swanson, an ex-South African, we have a great selection of pics from the past! Thanks Jeremy!

An actual billboard. Apparently the building owner took it down without the advertiser’s consent. Source: Scary Ideas via BoingBoing

Source: Melissa Shoes, Australia

Source: Australian Daily Telegraph.

Here’s a cool and unique little idea for a room air freshener. You choose the scent you want to use, plug it into a balloon, blow it up and then let it fly around the room dispersing the scent wherever it goes. Put fragile stuff away first though… You can also leave the scent plug [...]

NSFW (…in some draconian institutes, I’m sure)

This is a pretty funny story that I spotted on the good old Double-Boing. The designers for the scientific journal of the Max Planck Institute in Germany wanted to have an elegant Chinese poem on the cover of their special issue featuring China. So, they did the ubiquitous thing for today’s age and turned to [...]