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A brilliant little article on the old school signs used by waiters in dining. Like a little primer to visiting another country - signs waiters used to use to communicate:
Link: Sign Dining Courtesy the NY Times
Interesting how the lexicon has changed - small hand signals to indicate texting, gone for a cigarette, losers - signs now have no subtlety and are easily intercepted by customers. But I've forwarded this to the staff and it will soon be fixed...
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Some very good photos of a collection of curios and oddities, as assembled by Ryan Matthews.
Cool.
Link: Ryan Matthews
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Some amusing descriptions of bad dates done in tweet format.
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Doubtless you've seen this about the net, something about the male cleverbot's response "I am a Unicorn" inspired me.
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2 More links on the theme of "The Medium is the Message".
http://scottgundersen.tumblr.com/ - Who produces art out of old wine corks. I knew there was a reason I was saving my corks.
And there's this video on Vimeo in which artist Ashley Hackshaw creates a portrait of Frida Kahlo out of buttons - time laspe photography shows how she did it. I've seen better, but it's good to watch the process.