Cthulhu Plush Slippers

In the words of Boing Boing: "these will keep your feet warm, even as they damn them to a thousand nameless hells". [Entertainment Earth via Boing Boing]

DocuTicker

A wonkalicious collection of government, think-tank and NGO reports.

Eek-A-Mouse + Irish Pub

Eek-A-Mouse sings in an irish pub for his 50th birthday. [Blood and Fire]

Terabyte Server For Your Home

Roll your own terabyte file server. Lordy, that looks like fun.

Fly in My Soup

Andrew Thompson. You know who that is? It's the Dow Jones Average.

Criticism of “Buy Nothing Day”, from the Left

Of course capital would like nothing better than a population that defines politics as the decision to shop or not to shop; business interests spent most of the last century trying to convince us to find meaning in such gestures. When we do that, capital wins, since unless you've got the capacity to grow your … Continue reading Criticism of “Buy Nothing Day”, from the Left →

Google Dreams of Electric Sheep

Dreamlines is an attempt to visualize dreaming as a process. Provide the site a few keywords from your dream, and Dreamlines fetches the Google Image results for those words. Instead of displaying the results, the images are used to alter the vector of 1500 autonomous particles, whose trail composes the image you're shown when the process is complete. Confused? Try reading the official explanation instead. [via Info Aesthetics]

8,333 1/3 Sheets of 100% Virgin Copier Paper Grow in Brooklyn

1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees

1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees

A pallet of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore:

1 carton (10 reams) of 100% virgin copier paper uses 0.6 trees
1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets
1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly!)

1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36)

1 ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for newsmagazines and most catalogs) uses nearly 8 trees (7.68)

[Straight Dope]

The Means of Measurement

VATICAN CITY (AP) A Vatican document posted on the Internet by a Catholic news agency says sexually active homosexuals are not welcome in the priesthood unless they have gotten over homosexual tendencies for at least three years.

So how do we know? Odometers in their pants? Homo-sexo-meters?

Scanlon

WASHINGTON (AP) Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, pleads guilty in conspiracy to bribe public officials.

He's not even thirty and already has pseudonyms? What a ~~slimeball~~ pimp.