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Archive for January, 2007

Periodic Table of Comic Books

Here’s a cool website that has a periodic table of the elements. When you click each element, a page is displayed showing where that element has been referenced in comics.
I haven’t checked all of them, but even Hafnium has an entry. So, start searching for that Curium reference in your back issues now.

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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras
The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the DC Universe
Transformers Lite Brite Refill Kit with Pegs

Don’t Click It

Don't Click It is a great, innovative site that everyone should check out. Is it the wave of the future for computer/mouse navigation? I can't say, but there are some interesting and fun experiments that make you think.
The basic idea of the entire website is to navigate the entire site without once clicking your mouse [...]

Real Superheroes

Photographer DULCE PINZON has an amazing set of photos dedicated to the work of Mexican immigrant workers who send money to their families every month. She’s dressed the workers as popular superheroes and each photo depicts them at work as the hero. Do yourself a favor and check out all the photos in the series.

Tennessee’s (Illegal) Drug Tax

Leave it to Tennessee to have one of the sneakiest, and some say unconstitutional, ways to make money off of illegal drugs.
Seems that all illegal drugs in the state of Tennessee are required to have an unauthorized substances tax stamp. A person with over a gram of an illegal substance must purchase (anonymously, of [...]

Hero Machine

Here’s a cool Flash app. that lets you generate a superhero/superheroine by selecting a number of options. You can select a genre (hero, fantasy, sports) and then male or female. From there, you can select any number of options as well as coloring. Very cool little site and definitely worth spending a few minutes there [...]