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Rag Times
What’s this? Ragdoll’s micro-blog of ideas, inspiration and amusement. Ragdoll is a web designer for Arbor Day Foundation and maintains his own body of work at Revolt! Puppy.
Jul 24
The most glamorous cat in the world.
Jul 23
Check out this Rosy-Lipped Batfish. Besides the obvious lips, it even has facial hair! Plus, to make it even weirder, it doesn’t so much swim as it uses its ‘fins’ to crawl around. Click-through for much larger.
Those lips really humanize this fish. I actually feel like I can have a conversation with this thing.
“Hey Batfish, I bet you’re getting an earful of Dark Knight jokes lately.”
“Aw man, tell me about it.”
I should have gone to bed by now, but I just spent the last half hour looking at Matthew Woodson’s entire portfolio.
It turns out he was recently bitten by a spider and is offering to do commissions to pay the bills. I’m gonna have to look into this.
Comics artist, Bob Hall (Lincoln’s own) tells a good story about this NBC blunder. See more strikingly similar logos at Logo Design Love’s “When logos look alike.”
Jul 22
“ Bags of circuit boards are delivered to former farmers who heat them one by one over a coal fire burner in a pan that’s like a shallow wok. When the lead solder melts sufficiently, the chips are plucked off by hand. It is a job usually done by women, some of them pregnant, most of them of child-bearing age, and of course, with many children running all around—everyone breathing in lead and other toxic fumes released from the heating of the circuit boards. We tested lead levels 2,400 times the World Health Organization’s drinking water standards. Due to lead contamination, all of Guiyu’s water must be trucked in from outside the area.
Jul 21
Death of Mary Worth (via hotmarcus)
“We live in interesting times where not just movies but even movie trailers can increase the sales of books.” (via Bully’s Comics)
Jul 20
“ They had five perfectly good songs to choose from that Alan Moore used in the book. But no, they pick “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” by the Smashing Pumpkins. Didn’t anybody get the memo after Corgan formed Zwan? More important, the song was written about Batman for the movie “Batman and Robin.” Did they think comic-book geeks wouldn’t notice something like that?
Jul 19
Apparently a pair of local vampires have decided the Lincoln nightlife just ain’t for them.
Creepiest thing I’ve ever seen for sale on Craigslist.
What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one? So true to life, you will either laugh hard or weep bitterly.
The end there makes me shudder.
Jul 18
Mad Caddies—“Lay Your Head Down”
Besides having some nice instrumentation, I enjoy the lyrics:
There’s an angel next door in the ballroom, arms open full of grace
Well I did detect strong spirits there, in my glass I found the same
From their newest and most mature album, Keep it Going.
Jul 17
— David Bowie (via thelosspeaks)
“ I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman.