Odds and Ends, Mon 2 February 2009
1. "Snowflakes as you've never seen them before"
<http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/>
For those of us enduring the heatwave in southern Australia ;)
2. "After The Crisis: A Parody of 15 Corporate Logos"
<http://www.businesspundit.com/after-the-crisis-a-parody-of-15-
corporate-logos/>
3. "20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)"
<http://www.bspcn.com/2009/01/03/20-weird-logos-that-work-and-why-
they-do/>
4. "Heavy Metal Band Names", a flow chart by Doogie Horner
<http://www.comicvsaudience.net/images/flow_heavymetal.jpg>
5. "Lake Superior State University 2009 List of Banished Words"
<http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php>
6. "Will Dog Cloning Become Mainstream as the Price Drops?"
<http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/30/will-dog-
cloning-become-mainstream-as-the-price-drops/>
"A Florida couple has just received a genetic copy of their beloved
and deceased golden Labrador Sir Lancelot, naming the three-month-old
puppy Lancelot Encore. The couple paid $155,000 for one of the first
commercially cloned dogs in the world, and say the money was well
spent."
7. "Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists"
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24906579-12377,
00.html>
"In 90 per cent of the research, the outcome of working in an open-
plan office was seen as negative, with open-plan offices causing high
levels of stress, conflict, high blood pressure, and a high staff
turnover."
8. "Yoshimoto Cube"
<http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/a-nishi/y_cube/z_y_cube.html>
9. the. Products
<http://www.thinkofthe.com/products>
* "Anti-Theft Lunch Bags"
<http://www.thinkofthe.com/products/lunch_bag.php>
* "Speak-er"
<http://www.thinkofthe.com/products/speak-er.php>
