As a student project Mathew Zurlinden designed a birdhouse made from a cinder block.

A behind the scenes look into the incredible work of Illustrator & Painter, Matthew Doubek. Link

“I don’t have a radio (the one in my car is broken). Who has a radio?”

Mr. Guano was stunned and horrified to read this in a recent email from a listener who wanted to hear SwaG!. She wanted to hear the program live. She was in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA area. But she did not have a radio. More

Check your credit card bill. Mysterious credit card charge may have hit millions of users.

Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge for about 25 cents on their statements.

The charge shows up on statements as coming from “Adele Services” in Melville, N.Y. There is no business by that name listed in Melville, or registered to any business anywhere in New York, for that matter.

Two theories of what is going on have advanced on message boards and among consumer advocates: Someone is trying to find out whether an illegally obtained credit card number will work before making a bigger charge, or they’re trying to rip off tiny amounts from tons of people.

The latter theory has more credibility at the moment. The Better Business Bureau in Louisville reports that, at least so far, those who have been hit with the small charge have yet to get slammed with a bigger charge. The bureau speculates that the number of possible victims could be in the millions.

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Pig out on popcorn while doing something good for the nature, in case you have a solar plant.

Micro corn popper is a reusable alternative to popcorn bags. The removable lid/strainer melts butter into the 2.5-quart container while corn pops for all to see. In minutes, a perfect batch of everyone’s favorite snack for movie time, or anytime, is ready. Cuts down on the uncooked kernels or burnt disasters of microwave bags.

More info: Microwave Popcorn Popper

The ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ was published regularly from 1968 to 1972, but only intermittently thereafter. During its four years of regular publication, the Catalog earned a reputation, a following, and a National Book Award, the only time a catalog has been so honored.

Standing with one foot firmly in the rugged individualism and back-to-the-land movements of the Sixties counterculture and the other in the nascent global community made possible by the Internet, the ‘Whole Earth Catalog‘ offered an integrated, complex, challenging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive worldview.