Other stuff

Would you like to play a game you can’t lose, with more ways of winning than there are atoms in the universe? This set of 81 cards, drawn as the illustrations for the digital version of Cory Doctorow’s Makers, are interchangeable tiles that fit together like a puzzle but that can also be recombined in seemingly endless ways.

Here’s a flash-based version so that you can try it out online.

But playing with paper is much more fun. Let your inner Luddite roar.

Widely known as the father of our nation, here George Washington is celebrated for some of his lesser-known accomplishments. These include: running bare naked through the streets of Chestertown, Maryland; drinking three pitchers of National Bohemian in one sitting; and getting together with other of our nation’s fathers to dance in lycra tights outside a savings bank. Also a 2009 calendar.

As childhood ends, we all confront its opposite. The schoolground is our battlefield. We are armed with our imaginations. The war that ensues is civil to the end, bloodless but not without its casualties. If only we could have built a better catapult. If only kids were strong enough and wise enough to stay that way.

That which goes up must come down. Sometimes a rough landing is made tolerable by the breathtaking views that precede it. This fine concoction is, in fact, an album combining pictures and words and music—the latter coming from our friends at Bombadil. If you are the cautious type, have a listen here to make sure that you like it first. Even though we know you will.

This collaboration with insensitive singer-songwriter/Episcopal priest Drew Bunting is an album (and illustrated story) about apocalypse, sin, redemption, and the balls-out joy of life in the kingdom of God. The twelve tracks, which detail Bunting’s conflicted love affairs with the Christian religion and the American South, are replete with beauty, ugliness, tragedy, and glory.



Visit www.drewbunting.com to learn more about Drew. Click the links below to be enticed by some snippets from the songs. Please Don't Rip Me Off is a hilarious free bonus track (with an important message) that you can/may/should/must/will download and share with everyone you know.

Dispose of your unwieldy Norton! For only $15, the entire history of literature is here encapsulated on a 2’ x 3’ poster. From God to Hemingway to Kafka to Danielle Steel, the 50 greatest names in the history of literature are here depicted, described (Charles Dickens “accidentally sang a Christmas carol to Philip Roth,” for example), and inevitably related to Francis (and his good pal Kevin) Bacon by no more than six degrees.