HELIOLITH

New Zealand Flower Stamps: “This is New Zealand Post’s first-ever ’scratch and smell’ stamp - a collector’s item and a pleasant sensory experience in one beautiful package.”
Yummy. Why don’t we do this?
Also “The World’s First Action Replay Stamps”
Does NZ have a gov’t innovation department?
Thanks again for the link from boing boing!

Gosh, I really wanted to go see Dick Cheney speak when he came to nearby New Mexico to speak, (painful expression) but he’s making everyone sign a GWB endorsement, without which you can’t get a pass. I just can’t do it. (tragically feigned sigh of complete disappointment)
Link (via Bunkosquad)

I just finished reading a recent (posted 8/1/04) interview with Noam Chomsky that as always was full of thought-provoking information and perspective. It almost makes me want to go back to school and study politics myself to gain a greater understanding of current events in the increasingly divergent world-view that has become the default in […]

Cuba spends on their military in one year what we spend in 12 hours… That was true under Clinton, how many hours do you think it’s been reduced to under Bush? If that’s not enough, for some odd reason, we are tightening sanctions against Cuba, the one country in Latin America with the lowest […]