Bug be gone bedding

Based on this eighty thousand year old idea, I think they should consider marketing bedbug-repellent mattresses for those concerned about such pests. The sedges and rushes could be harvested sustainably and could be affixed to the mattress using some kind of mesh.

Ubiquitous displays

How long will it be before this digital clock/table shows up in a movie or on TV?

And how much longer before electro-luminescent technology will have become so completely universal, incorporated in the workplace, at home, and in public buildings, that this will start to look terribly dated, like those old 1970's LED watches (broken link) that once seemed so futuristic? I envision

• Desks with calendar displays


• File cabinets with automatically updating contents listings


• School lockers with the student's names and (officially sanctioned) animated graphics on display


• A bar with a display on the front depicting the lower part of the skeleton of the barmaid moving around along with her


• Ads on fast-food trays in place of the little printed paper sheet that you usually see, offering prizes if the customer plays a game

It's only a matter of the economies of scale catching up to the desires of the market.
(Via cribcandy broken link)

Tag your furniture

I heard Ruth Brown on the radio yesterday singing If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' On It and my thoughts naturally turned toward furniture. You can buy fabric spray paint to use on upholstery (thus putting a new twist on the term sofa painting), and it seems to me that with the proper tagging skills, one could produce some interesting art furniture.

Sit back and think of Mick.
What would you spray on your sofa?