Toypography

via boingboing: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/08/toypography_blocks_s.html

http://www.everyoneforever.com/content/2007-04-29/a_toy_of_typography/

http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/hiramekitoys/toypography/

The especially cool bit is the ability to use the _same pieces_ to render a given word in both English and Japanese (kanji).

Now if I can just figure out how to actually order these...

you get what you pay for

http://www.who-sucks.com/business/made-in-china-2007-danger-timeline

A disturbingly lengthy list of products, produced in China, that have been recalled _just in 2007_. Lead paint figures prominently.

I don't want to point the finger at China particularly, as I don't know that their regulations of such things are any more (or less) stringent than any other country from which the US is buying cheap goods; we need to think about ways of coping with this sort of thing that aren't country-specific. But food for thought in the short term, nonetheless.

Dr. Seuss x Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.fal.net/html/horrton.html

(The disturbing thing, in a way, is how well it works.)

attempts at matters of faith from a rationalist/axiomatic perspective

http://fdmts.livejournal.com/385030.html

*ponder*

This is one of those things that I need to spend a bit more time on...sometime soon.