Must Have. The perfect fidgety thing. It will ive in a pocket and denature my credit cards and I won't notice....

And yet another age-old art form is mechanized and taken over by corporate hegemony.
That said, the poor espresso is cold by the time the printer finishes-but this would be amazing for cakes!

Just too stupid for words. I bet this guy has guilty memories of eating paste and volunteering to run the mimeograph....and this type of punishment has no effect on the average 6 year old-they can't figure out what they did that was wrong. I hope his parents take him by the Costco and get him a lage box of sharpies of his own. A good place to start the discussion on why authoriy needs to be questioned.

As a bookbinder, there's just one word for this- YUM.
I can see where it's going to be hard on retailers nad laibraries, tough. Perhaps a plainer version for the rough-trade?

When we moved to Evanston IL from Rochester NY back in 1969 my Mom's comment was that it was a "town big enough to have a bus system, and small enough to let an 8 year-old ride it alone."
The amount of adult supervison kids are saddled with these days is scary. I had a 21 year old classmate at culinary school who had never done her own laundry. The idea that getting a bump or bruise can be useful or educational has dissapeared. The best quote of all on this topic comes from a British kids book-Swallows and Amazons by A. Ramsome. The kids find a sailboat at the hous where they're staying in the Lakes district. A telegram to their father in the RN gets this response "If not duffers, won't drown. If differs, better drownded."

Not only is the dog waiting for the human to let it out-dogs have a hard time seeing screens and glass even when they are there. So after learning that the frame had to move in order for the door to be open, a dog won't try to cross the threshold.

I like the way the kid was just fascinated.

And there are no foot pegs. My thighs would be cramping up inno time.

If only this worked. I love a bath and would be svelte in no time.

Urk-can I recommend a good dermatologist? There's suffering for your art, then there's making us suffer for your art.....

Long long ago John Brunner wrote this nice novel called The Stone That Never came Down, about the creation and release of just such a compound into the British populace. He saw it as a Good Thing. It is full of the 1973 vision of the future. Still a good read.

Takuan-
the story you're thinking of is [u]The Persistence of Vision[/u] by John Varley, found in the collection of the same name.