All That Is Interesting - A View Of The US-Mexican Border. 9 Ludicrous Trends In Advertising We'll Never See Again. They say that people have always been the same, but that's bullshit. As I've developed ManComics: ClassicComicsForToday'sFuckin'AMan, now the number one comic action series on correctional center Internet, I've noticed some trends in classic comic book advertising that prove our grandparents were very, very different from us. And I don't mean that the market has died out for hernia belts and $1.99 real, working submarines.
I mean that I'm about to prove that the human race has only been sane for about 30 years. These ads are all real. Trend #9: Homicidal Safety Tips Here's the difference between our safety and the safety of our grandparents: When we were kids, commercials told us not to play with a downed power line. So here's a look at Captain Tootsie's poisonous snake safety procedures.
Safety Step 1. Safety Step 2. Safety Step 3. Safety Step 4. Safety Step 5. Safety Step 6. Ray-O-Vac batteries had a running series of these "safety" ads. You will never see an ad like this again. Trend #8: IfItWereMyHome.com. Tonight in Cairo, the Parliament is Surrounded. Tonight, protesters have surrounded the parliament building in downtown Cairo.
There have been two deaths of protestors in Suez; one policeman has died in Cairo, hit by a rock. The protestors in Tahrir Square have been tear-gassed, and Twitter has been blocked within the borders of Egypt. But this morning, as the sun burned a smoky haze off the face of this city, the streets were open and clear as I rode downtown at 8 a.m. There had been tweets that protests would be staged in Tahrir Square and in the downtown neighborhood of Mohandeseen. Around the block, I exited my taxi and sat down at a nearby hotel for coffee, waiting as the hours passed. But here as well, only a small army of police guarded the downtown commercial district. When I arrived, the Twitter hash #jan25 lit up. I ran out the door and took the subway back to Tahrir Square. When I arrived, the protest had begun. They were joined by other young Egyptians and nearly all of them were taking photographs. “Why?” “Yes,” he said.
Damn Interesting • This Place is Not a Place of Honor. If you look at it just right, the universal radiation warning symbol looks a bit like an angel. The circle in the middle could indicate the head, the lower part might be the body, and the upper two arms of the trefoil could represent the wings. Looking at it another way, one might see it as a wheel, a triangular boomerang, a circular saw blade, or any number of relatively benign objects. Whatever a person’s first impression of it may be, someone unfamiliar with the symbol probably wouldn’t guess that it means “Danger!
These rocks shoot death rays!” The U.S. Department of Energy has been grappling with that problem recently, as they designed the warning markers to use at Yucca Mountain and at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) nuclear waste storage facilities. The offending nuclear waste will be stored far underground at each of these facilities, but there is still a danger that future generations might stumble across it.