glasses sign

JonKoping: Galna Glasogon i neon (hope that isn't something rude because i just copied it from the website) Anyway... an Ever-So-Slightly-Creepy Swedish Sign in our Swedish Signs for Friday Series. [fixed link] IN slightly less creepy OTHER NEWS... a friend told me this funny story about when she went into Whole Foods. I had to draw it the minute we got off the phone--and here it is for your viewing pleasure. (I agreed to leave her nameless for her own fashion protection.)

new yorker cover by... iphone

the stroke by stroke video of The New Yorker cover being painted on an iPhone. Jorge Colombo drew the cover using Brushes, an application for iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. more here.

common sense and sense of humor

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." --William James (b.1842) psychologist and philosopher and brother of Henry James