Beautiful book art

Beautiful book art:

http://www.offbeatearth.com/dont-like-reading-other-uses-for-books/

I admit, seeing this done with storybooks makes me a bit sad, but would be a great use for out of date texbooks and encyclopedia sets. Far better than them mouldering away in some warehouse.

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If you read no other article on the internet today, if you follow no other link, I hope you will consider following this link and reading this article:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html

( Posting the contents, sans pictures, here for posterity, because links die. )

I won't say I agree 100% with 100% of the article, but I think a lot of it is right on the money. I'm blessed that many of my real world friendships have carried over into cyberspace, and vice versa, but I also know a few people whose only form of social interaction is on-line, and that is frightening and sad.

There were many advantages and drawbacks to being a military brat. One advantage is that I got very good at making friends in new places very quickly, because we moved so often, but the drawback is that I never got very good at maintaining friendships. I'm a lousy, lazy correspondent and have in the past let friendships die rather than expend the effort to keep them alive. It's one of the things I like least about myself and one of the things I'm continually working on. It is easier now, with a blog, where I can communicate to a mass of friends all at once, but it also means I very rarely get around to answering messages or e-mails, and that sucks. I'm sure I'd have a chance at deeper, more meaningful relationships if I returned correspondence with any sort of regularity. Must continue working on that.

Tarot reading from The Crowdsource Tarot deck

The Basis:
Ferret
A pure white ferret scampers and dances, playing with and biting a hackey-sack, stepping on the head of a sleeping and oblivious black-and-white ferret curled into a donut.
Meaning: Enjoy what excites you!

The Situation:
Paladin
A knight in silver armor with a red ankh on the chest, a shield in one hand, and a steaming teapot in the other stands protectively in front of a hysterically screaming person, guarding her from zombies.
Meaning: You should focus on taking care of the people who depend on you.

The Outcome:
Accumulator, reversed
Benjamin Franklin contemplates a Leyden jar being held to him by a hand emerging from a cloud.
Meaning: It might be time to use some of the things you've been holding on to.

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Reading from The Crowdsource Tarot.

Hmmm...interesting. I'm already working on the last bit, and I'm trying to do the first two.