Front page news

+ Newseum features a great interactive way to view newspaper front pages from various cities around the globe. We've seen this before but not with such nice functionality.

Owsley

+ This USB Flash Drive is too adorable! Owsley Owlbert. Other nice drives on the site too.

Volcano in action

+ Cool photo of Tungurahua erupting in Ecuador.

Random links to things

+ Spontaneous Human Combustion - watch out!

BeachShowerCam for AXE.

Want to get really pimped out? Check out GlowFur.

RIP Mr. Wizard.

Random stuff for a Friday

+ Salad dressing cleans frescos.

Witricity - wireless electricity from MIT. Neat! Now if they could just get free wifi everywhere. ;)

Randomness

+ Twittervision is hypnotic enough - but now there's Flickrvision!

Mr Toast is cute.

At the food timeline they have an interesting resource with links to information about brands with people's names. Was Dr. Pepper real?

Also, did ya know there was a DrPepper Museum? Yup. They've even got a blog (watch out for slighly garrish colors) and podcasts to boot.

Hill Holliday won the $90 million Toys 'R Us account. Good on ya. About time Boston agencies start winning some nice juicy accounts. :)

1973 Disney VD war video

+ This is weird. In 1973, the Walt Disney Company made this educational film about the dangers of venereal disease. The video is a bit long - over 16 minutes.

(via Coudal)

The Landlord

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Die to get out of meetings

+ Tired of meetings? Take 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself before your next one. From the folks at AdultSwim.

Monty Python - Cheese Shop

+ Classic!

A lapse

+ Surfing around last night I came across this listing at Space.com for what planets were visible for the month of March. I know it's purile, but the description for Uranus made me laugh.

Twittle dum

+ Looks like twitter is down again. Seems like it does that about every other day now. Probably cannot handle the influx of people or something. Plus, on a Saturday morning I'm guessing there's lots of "waking up" type posts going on that could flood the system.

It is a bit addictive and it is fun. Although I do see that there are a lot of people who post constantly, not necessarily saying much of interest most of the time. Granted, that's the case with me too, but I do try to limit my tweets to a few a day unless there's something worth twittering about.

Not so deep fried fish

+ Goldfish kept in deep fry fish tank in Japan. Crazy! (hat tip kottke.org)

Pretty trees

+ Most magnificent trees in the world from Neatorama - living up to their name! Great pictures too. I could see a whole series of these kinds of posts. (hat tip Kottke.org)

Humpday game

+ You should try the Punctuation Game!!

Stuff to listen to

+ While fighting the flu, I caught a music thing on PBS the other night featuring Sting and Edin Karamazov who recorded the music of John Dowland, a 16th century musician and composer.

You can listen to some of it here. (click on eplayer)

Infectious

+ Virus game is addictive! (hat tip (damn you!) Dab)

It's also relevant to the fact that way too many folks I'm around (work and personal life) are sick with colds, flu, or something else. I've even got a sicky at home. Remember, when these "things" go around, if you feel like crap, stay home so you don't spread your germs and wash your hands and cover your mouth when you cough. I've washed my hands so much in the last couple days I'm starting to feel like I've got OCD.

Art needs to be chewed

+ I guess you can make art out of anything - take Bubble Gum Blondes. The artist Jason Kronenwald creates these using only bubble gum placed on a plywood backing. Pretty neat. The colors come from the inherent coloring in the gum.

Techie Cakes

+ Neat TechCakes.

Dangers of Microwaving Your Sponge

+ CNN reports new reports about a study that found microwave ovens can be used to sterilize kitchen sponges sent people hurrying to test the idea this week -- with sometimes disastrous results. This knowledge has been floating around for a while. But apparently the folks at the university had left out one key component to not burning down your home while killing off sponge germs - wet the thing before nuking!

The university issued the following advisory: "To guard against the risk of fire, people who wish to sterilize their sponges at home must ensure the sponge is completely wet. Two minutes of microwaving is sufficient for most sterilization. Sponges should also have no metallic content. Last, people should be careful when removing the sponge from the microwave as it will be hot."