Alfred Hitchcock's Angry Birds Reimagined Posters Olie Moss isn't the only illustrator in town to give new things a retro makeover. Flickr user Zero-lives [flickr profile] came up with a couple of movie posters for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, reimagined in the motif of popular iPhone game, Angry Birds. Stories from around the web
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Conrad Maldives Rangali Island's unique underwater suite (NOT photoshop) Top 10 Things I Miss About Stay-At-Home Pot Dealers Toke of the Town Northern California Correspondent Of the supposedly 43 million Americans who smoke marijuana, there is such a small percent of us that are allowed to have safe and easy access to our drug of choice, that to complain seems to be a little elitist and even downright spoiled. Having a medical marijuana Card has changed my life for definitely the better and not to be redundant, and it's made scoring much safer. But if you're of a certain age and generation, because of the nature of prohibition, the only way to score our pot was to go to someone's home. As much as I love having a card and going to the Pot Shop, or having it delivered, I miss the interaction of the old daze. So...here's my list of what I miss about seeing my Man (or Woman, as it were) to score. 1) Old School Etiquette. Believe it or not, in the old daze there was an incredibly set of manners involved in buying Pot. Upon arriving at your Dealer's pad, you would never mention why you were there. 2) The Relationship.