A new way to experience the Solar System, for the musically inclined. Each planet represents a note that plays once crossing a threshold. The rotation of the planets are accurately scaled, and yes, despite it no longer being a planet, Pluto is still in there. It’s a beautiful musical treat!
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Awesome Artwork Made With Sharpies
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The problem with fighting games? All the fighting. Watch Mortal Kombat with mediation.
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I don’t find most rings very comfortable, but I would wear just about any and all of these 18 uniquely nerdy designs.
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Saving your petty change doesn’t have to be boring or tedious – as piggy banks have evolved, they’ve gotten increasingly entertaining (and less likely to require smashing for access!) Does anyone still have a piggy bank? (or encourage their kids to?)
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I’m becoming a big fan of Nerve’s James Brady Ryan’s “Pop Torture” column – this week he tackles another punishing challenge: The Sandra Lee Dinner Party, inspired by “Anthony Bourdain recently describing Food Network star Sandra Lee’s ‘Kwanzaa Cake’ as ‘a war crime on television.’”
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Flossy reader RJ shares an interesting link about getting “a head” in the art world with Sophie Cave’s Floating Heads.
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Not every rainbow ends at a pot of gold. (This one’s close, though.)
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Ignore the sort of irritatingly placed ads and feast your eyes on the Trogon – no, “not an alien out of Star Trek or Doctor Who,” it’s a family of birds who are arrestingly beautiful.
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From links-finder extraordinaire Jan, the “Is your job as rough as the Arctic?” or Life North of the Arctic Circle (Long, but interesting).
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I’m annoyed it’s been raining so much lately and that it’s gotten cold again, harrumph! But before you tell me to “cheer up” consider: apparently feeling grumpy is good for you!
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And finally, some unintentionally hilarious commercials for completely useless products (I guess I should put a warning on here for suggestive material, even though they are infomercials … but still!)
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Send all links submissions to FlossyLinks@gmail.com, and stay tuned for more links and internet arcana tomorrow!
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I have a plastic piggy bank from Old Navy. You put the coins in a slot in the pig’s belly, and to get them out, you unscrew its snout!
posted by Jenn on 3-27-2010 at 12:31 pm
I don’t have a piggy bank but I do have a “Just For Me Fund” jar I use for my change. When it’s full, I take it to Coinstar and add the money to my savings.
My son has a bank but it’s a Spongebob one, and it has a clock on it. Unfortunately, we don’t much room in either of our budgets to save so, for now, it’s mostly decoration.
posted by Sarah in CA on 3-27-2010 at 1:08 pm
My husband collects piggy banks–but only PIGGY banks. No other animals or shapes. He has antique ones and one-of-kind, handmade ones–as well as everything in between. He even has a couple that are made out of cast iron. MY favorite is one I bought him: it is wearing a Red Wings sweater. ;) And no, none of his banks are for practical use–just for decoration.
posted by cmfalls on 3-28-2010 at 1:04 am
Oh, the Pop Torture article had me howling. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in ages!
posted by Jen in Japan on 3-28-2010 at 3:57 am
Too bad some religions find Piggy Banks offensive. (See link in name.)
posted by Matt on 3-28-2010 at 11:37 am
My daughter has a really cool piggy bank. It was my husbands when he was little. It was a gift from a family friend and had ended up in her basement somehow. She found it a few years ago and sent it to us. It is yellow, green, white, and orange with a daisy pattern molded on. You can tell it is from the seventies.
posted by goog on 3-28-2010 at 12:21 pm
My *enjoyment* of the Pop Torture was from derived from the not-unexpected results of those who did not heed the warning spoken by the master of culinary expertise, Lord Tony Bourdain!
Does this make me a SADIST? :-D
posted by Amy on 3-29-2010 at 9:08 am