When I was a kid I collected paper money from some "similar to stamp collecting" company from the back of a comic book. I was always amazed at how much more colourful world money was compared to Canadian (colours but essentially one per note) and American (play money green) bills. It seems the US is taking some hints from Canada and adding a bit of colour to it's designs.

Vroom !! Vroom !!

Oooops, damn my hosting company really screwed up. Crap. What a rotten time to ask Marmy's credit card to cover my hosting for the time being, while I pay down the Xmas overdraft.

Wow. It's a real life anime chick. Look at those big eyes, that small mouth! And in the world of anime, even the blue eyes and blonde hair could mean she is still Japanese.

I do love me some creative model kit building, especially considering many of them of self-created kits.

Oooo, cumul.us is about using this whole popular community thingy to accurately (hopefully) predict the weather. I don't know how it can work but it cannot be any better than the current weather reporting in this city that says it's raining outside even when there might be a single cloud covering a 2 block radius.

No need to be surprised by the number of cell phones in the The Items We Carry Pool but the number of iPods does; I suppose it's the digital world.

This is an interesting article called The End of Science Fiction which basically speculates that some point in our future, when we have reached the era often defined in scifi, we will stop writing scifi. Well we reached 1984 and still continue to write after that. And we reached 2001 and still are going strong. Even when we do have Jetsons cars, I am sure we will be writing about a million years into the future, not just a few hundred or thousand. (via different elves)

"PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face." I knew that -- the cool hammers, for the cool kids of carpenters like my dad, were the Ball Peen Hammers. But some of the 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names are things I didn't know. I think they were cheating when they gave medical terms for body parts. ALL body parts have medical names, even the most minute and mundane.

I must admit to gaining a grudging like for canadian poetry while reading the posters on the subway car walls. Thus I like finding rob mclennan's blog.

To quote Wil, i now know what to call the feeling I have had for a number of years, "survival myopia." When you are so caught up in doing the day to day thing such as bills, dishes, laundry, sweeping, working, bills and more importantly from my POV -- distracting yourself, you forget to notice life is passing you by. How do you pull out of this?

It's art. It's a refurbed corona (Corona, Smythe Corona) typewriter that is now a waffle iron that churns out keyboard shaped waffles. Now is it just me or would a waffle iron that would turn out toast shaped waffles kinda neat?

When I read the gist of Printer as social letterbox which is talking about Web 2.0 possibly dropping off letters to your printer instead of your Inbox. Actually its talking about someone else talking about this idea. I envision this idea in my technlogically overwhelming Dark Urban Future full of gagets where you walk to a box on a lampost, access your ONE email address and grab printouts of personal stuff, excerpts from newspapers & magazines you are subscribed to and any personal notes sent your way. You grab this quickly printed and indestructible broadsheet and shove it in your bag to be read at your leisure on the maglevl train to work. It's considered the passe way of reading but some still like it.

Rosie O'Donnel has a Flickr account ? I wonder how many other well known celebrities have them?

OK, Starbucks is a stupid git for having a lady named Sam Buck change the name of her coffee shop but what is even stupider is the number of people posting direct comments to Sam herself. This was a newspaper article people, not her own blog.

Weird. I always thought that akimbo meant standing a little odd, askew or weirdly. But it is definately standing a certain way.

Now I have a storage solution for travelling with cats !!

It looks like Kelly, the other marmalade, was not the only one annoyed by that stupid H&M trailer at the beginning of movies. It has been pulled in Canada.