While stopped at a traffic signal last night, I looked off toward the crescent Moon where it sat near the horizon, curve pointed downward and slightly to the right. An airplane flew past, on approach to land at a nearby airport.
The flight path, distance and viewing angle made it look like the airplane was the same size as the Moon, and it passed by just below the crescent.
If only I’d had a camera, preferably one with really fast film and a good zoom lens…
How To Read a Book a Day by The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. (via @johannadc) – I don’t think this will work for the new Wheel of Time book.
Belly Button Lint and Bogus Ads – a marketer on refusing to participate in campaigns that mislead or flat-out lie about the product.
Spotted this at the grocery store on the clearance table:
It’s not quite as good a title as Transmorphers, but seriously: look at that logo! It’s a dead ringer for Transformers: Armada, down to the extra capital letter…though in this case the placement makes absolutely no sense!
I’m still trying to figure out what to make of the slogan, “Super Transform Ultimate End General Mobilization.”
Maybe “Sent from my iPhone/Droid/whatever” is worth including…as a spelling disclaimer. (Sent from my G2)
There’s something wrong with this advertisement for flu vaccination services:
The slogan just bugs me, because they got the metaphor wrong.
Think about it: Vaccines work by training your body’s immune system to recognize a particular type of germ ahead of time, so that if you get exposed to the real thing later on, you can fight it off before it actually manages to make you sick. In terms of a warfare metaphor, it’s about training the troops who guard the home front so that if the enemy successfully invades past your borders, you can fight them off before they become entrenched.
The first line of defense would be something that stops them from invading in the first place. A well-defended border, in terms of ground troops. The Coast Guard in terms of sea. Radar and anti-aircraft missiles to identity and shoot down incoming enemy aircraft.
Your first line of defense against the flu? That would be your skin.
So wash your hands!
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An incredible photo recreation of Georges Seurat’s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette. The photo was staged back in 2006, but I hadn’t seen it until it popped up on Reddit a few days ago. I find it amusing that people have been posting lyric fragments from Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George in notes on the photo!
There’s also a side-by-side comparison of the painting and the recreation.
Update: the photo is by Mark’s Postcards from Beloit, who has posted an album of more shots from the photoshoot featuring Friends of Riverfront in Beloit, Wisconsin. Used here under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (attribution, no commercial use or derivatives) licence.
