Monday, February 2, 2009

Odds and Ends, Mon 2 February 2009

1. "Snowflakes as you've never seen them before"
  <http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/>
For those of us enduring the heatwave in southern Australia ;)

2. "After The Crisis: A Parody of 15 Corporate Logos"
  <http://www.businesspundit.com/after-the-crisis-a-parody-of-15-
     corporate-logos/>

3. "20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)"
  <http://www.bspcn.com/2009/01/03/20-weird-logos-that-work-and-why-
     they-do/>

4. "Heavy Metal Band Names", a flow chart by Doogie Horner
  <http://www.comicvsaudience.net/images/flow_heavymetal.jpg>

5. "Lake Superior State University 2009 List of Banished Words"
  <http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php>

6. "Will Dog Cloning Become Mainstream as the Price Drops?"
  <http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/30/will-dog-
     cloning-become-mainstream-as-the-price-drops/>
"A Florida couple has just received a genetic copy of their beloved
 and deceased golden Labrador Sir Lancelot, naming the three-month-old
 puppy Lancelot Encore. The couple paid $155,000 for one of the first
 commercially cloned dogs in the world, and say the money was well
 spent."

7. "Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists"
  <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24906579-12377,
     00.html>
"In 90 per cent of the research, the outcome of working in an open-
 plan office was seen as negative, with open-plan offices causing high
 levels of stress, conflict, high blood pressure, and a high staff
 turnover."

8. "Yoshimoto Cube"
  <http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/a-nishi/y_cube/z_y_cube.html>

9. the. Products
  <http://www.thinkofthe.com/products>
* "Anti-Theft Lunch Bags"
  <http://www.thinkofthe.com/products/lunch_bag.php>
* "Speak-er"
  <http://www.thinkofthe.com/products/speak-er.php>