On this day in 1966, that kooky and campy Batman TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward premiered. It featured some of the most memorable villainous performances TV history, as well as contributed the words “KAPOW” and “BAP” and “ZOK” and “FLRBBBBB” to the vocabulary of every six year-old boy in the country.
For 2008, that is. Here’s Wikipedia on the Doomsday rule:
The Doomsday rule or Doomsday algorithm is a way of calculating the day of the week of a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar since the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years.
This movie, with its hints of Metamorphosis and Maya Deren, probably will stand as one of the best of the last ten years. Of course it has a deeply economic theme: how much of the value of life stems from our ability to trade, and how much from our ability to play games of pure coordination? Plus the French health care system is so good that all the nurses are beautiful and pay infinite attention to a single patient, or maybe that is just how French movies are made.
Design by Bruce Robertson
Finding it a little hard to get to the bookstore lately, so I turn once again to the incredible Seven Hundred Penguins. Predictably, it didn’t take long to find an example of what has made Penguin such a great publisher over the years.
Published in 1964, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation is a fantastic example of how two colors and geometry can jump out and kick your photo-illustrated cover’s butt.
(And if anyone knows more about…
The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation
The Plastic and Plush toy review site has started posting their “Best of 2007” lists and the Milk and Cheese vinyl set nabbed a slot on the list for “Best Packaging”.
Plastic and Plush gave the figures a nice write-up back when they were released and the virtual ink they’ve given the project has certainly been appreciated. Especially since most of the toy world virtually ignored us. Oh, cruel toy world!
Milk and Cheese Vinyl Set Given Props @ Plastic And Plush
Someone dispensing advice by phone:
“It’s always better to make it look like it’s business-related.”
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It’s the little calendar with the great big name!
It’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which this calendar would offer a compelling alternative to a pocket calendar, but the 2008 Super Minimalist Micro Calendar Reduced appeals to my inner ten-year-old, who read and reread Alvin’s Secret Code and kept cipher keys on little rolled-up pieces of paper inserted in bits of paper straws. Why? To protect those ciphers from enemy agents.
An explanation of this calendar is available from…
Super Minimalist Micro Calendar Reduced
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