Friday Ephemera

Play with the solar system. // A digitised collection of handheld electronic games. // Get a six-pack in seconds. // Tornado meets hardware store. // A brief guide to space junk. // Man builds own scanning electron microscope. // Edible biro. // Modern-day Kyrgyzstan. // Unmelting. // Music and emotion. // Chicks plus webcam. // Tweaking James’ face. // The tax wedge. // For those who miss the shutdown of tube televisions. // The dark(er) side of socialism: “How do we bring down the stock markets?” // Photographs of frontier life, 1887-1892. (h/t, Peter Risdon) // Girls making gun sounds. // Why frogs are awesome.

Comments

[Retardo]

Trying to bring down stock markets seems really to be the less dark side of socialism, when you look at history.

[mlrosty]

I'm king of the solar system.

[Anna]

Tweaking James' face.

Cruel but funny, especially the second one. :D

[Ted S., Catskills, NY]

I'm waiting for a biro made of bacon.

In the meantime, I'm mildly surprised you didin't point out the new penis size map that's been making the rounds:

http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073

Or, from Houston, TX, USA, Pole Dancing for Jesus:

http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/03-23-11-pole-dancing-for-jesus-shakes-up-spring-when-bearing-the-cross-gets-sexy/

[witwoud]

I tried opening the penis map but couldn't get it up. My poor computer's past its prime...

[John D]

Tweaking James' face.

Cruel but funny, especially the second one. :D

And #8 is pretty good.

[squid vicious]

I was really enjoying the frontier photographs until I came across one that was labeled something about an Indian chief and "two Euro-Americans" - doesn't this crap ever stop? Anyway, the politically correct term would be "Snowflake" or "Honky-American."

[WTP]

No, Squid, the proper 19th century PC term would be "Palefaces".