Intergalactic House of Paisley

This is a very cool idea, indeed. Buy objects at thrift stores, have an author writer a short-short story about one of the object, post item to EBay with story as description. Read the post. Final item is "Jonathan Lethem vs. The Missouri Shotglass." Alas, already out of my price range. The list of authors takes you to the individual stories.

Ganked from Crooked Timber, which also has an interesting post about fonts. No, really!

http://www.veer.com/ideas/etched/

Just cooler than cool.

Via Making Light, in one of their wonderful open threads.

A shirt for us, and so aptly described:

This shirt is symbolic