[links] the doom and gloom report... and in other news...

[kettunainen]

The Doom and Gloom Report brings you:
The Stranger: Be Afraid. (topic: bird flu; article not suitable reading for the hypochondriacs on my flist, nor for those with health anxieties. you know who you are.)

In happier news:
Inhabitat: Reverse Graffiti srsly cool stuff.

CNN: Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

Salon: Air head: I could buy an air

Comments

[tamago23]

article not suitable reading for the hypochondriacs on my flist, nor for those with health anxieties. you know who you are.

*lawlz*

[misslynx]

I love the lawn chair story, although not quite as much as the first time I heard about someone doing something like that.

I think that one was the 1982 guy they mention - Ed Hallowell, the ADD specialist, told that story in his keynote speech at an ADD conference. My favourite parts: when the pilot had to radio down to air traffic control and try to convince them that he really had just passed a guy in a lawn chair drinking a beer, and was not playing a practical joke on them (or hallucinating from sleep deprivation), and the guy's comment about why he did it, when they finally got him down: "Well, a man can't just sit around..." :-D

(I know I already told you about this, so this is more for the benefit of other readers of your journal.)

[alexisyael]

You know, it's a HECK of a lot easier to just use microfiber cloths on the bottom of one's swiffer... I buy them in the automotive section of Tarjay (Zellers probably has them, too). Microfiber cloths are the bomb diggity bomb. They attach to the bottom of the swiffer (no cutting or sewing required, they fit a little oddly, but it works), they are great inside pocket diapers and they do a KICKASS job of cleaning!

[kettunainen]

yeah, microfiber is reputed to be a major ass-kicker in the cleaning category... but the main differences between using microfiber and making your own swiffer cover thingie (I don't even have a swiffer!) is that the materials suggested are hopefully all things you already have around your house and, thus, don't have to spend more money getting and are also (hopefully!) biodegradable (cotton and wool in the case of the instructable); whereas, microfiber isn't and is likely something you'd have to buy.

However, if you're dead certain that you're never ever gonna make one of the other types of swiffer covers, then, by all means, get a bit of microfiber and use that forever! :-)

[alexisyael]

I'm totally not a sewer, so I thought I'd point out a new-sew option :D And I already own like 15-20 microfiber cloths, which I use for my swiffer and cleaning my bathrooms/ kitchen (and occasionally also for stuffing the pocket dipes)!