Check this out

11/26/09 09:09 Filed in: miscellany

t's on Amazon, and it is the listing for a laptop desk that attaches to the steering wheel of your car.
http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Office-WM-01-Laptop-Steering/dp/B000IZGIA8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
But then, check out the customer-supplied images below the listing's picture. Priceless! Direct link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000IZGIA8/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

Tags: silliness

Make words out of books

03/24/09 09:16 Filed in: visualizations

Amaztype takes cover images from Amazon and creates the word you type in with them. Fun!

Tags: silliness, book covers, amaztype

Instant one page wonder illustrated books

03/18/09 09:35 Filed in: books

Tor is hosting One Page Wonder flip books. What fun - you print out the page, fold it, cut one piece, and you have a story that can be endlessly rearranged.

This one is Captain A-OK Fights Blug-Glub-Glub. There is a video for instructions on how to do the folding, and then how to read it.

Tags: Tor press, silliness, one-page wonders

Thisisindexed.com

12/04/08 16:12 Filed in: miscellany

If you aren't familiar with Jessica Hagy's Indexed blog, here's a little sample:

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It's a fun place to stop by in the mornings.

Tags: silliness

Tongue-in-cheek indexing

12/09/08 16:11 Filed in: indexing

Hugh Trevor-Roper takes revenge on his Cambridge college via the the index:

"The index entry for ‘Cambridge Colleges, Peterhouse’ betrayed uncanny parallels, some believed, with Trevor-Roper’s perception of its members in the 1980s: ‘high-table conversation not very agreeable . . . four revolting fellows of; main source of perverts’. Just as admirers of his hero Gibbon often head straight for the footnotes, so the first port of call for connoisseurs of Trevor-Roper is the index."

Peterhouse Blues posting by Henry Farrell. The comments contain some hilarity.

Tags: silliness