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It's the Weekly What? for Friday, May 18th.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.Thanks for reading this week, folks. You're in for a great time... we hope. You see, we had to sort of throw this issue together at the last minute. We think we've gotten everything, crossed the "eyes" and dotted the "tees" and all that. We won't get a wink of sleep tonight worrying about something we may or may not have missed. Do us a favor: If you find anything horribly wrong with this newsletter please just keep it to yourself. We try, we really do, but sometimes there's only so much you can get monkeys to do. Our mother always told us to never trust monkeys. Mother also told us to go into medicine, but we didn't listen! And look at us now. Anyway, when you're done here, refill your Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster and get on over to our Facebook page and leave your answer to the Weekly What? question: "What is one thing you never leave the house without?" 
The death of QR codes.QR codes are in danger of going the way of the CueCat. Why? Advertisers are killing them. Find out how you can avoid endangering the tremendously useful QR code and save it from irrelevancy. Read more >> Cafe Americano... extra water!Do you visit Starbucks? It's okay, we're not going to get all snobby on you. But we feel that we need to let you know that Starbucks has trained you how to order in the official barista language. "Large?" "Medium?" Wha? Oh, you must mean a "Grande" (Roll the 'r' for bonus points; it's like the secret handshake.) You've given up and use the "Starbucksian" size names, yes? Ta-dah! You've been trained. Good boy... here's a Scooby snack! "'Macchiatio?' I just want a coffee with a smidge of milk!" >> Time for a Baker Cat break!It's soothing, relaxing, and energizing all at once! Amazing! >> Story headline goes here.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Link text goes here >> Fun with chemistry!When we received a chemistry set as a youth, we did everything we could (save for actually reading the instructions) to concoct some sort of explosive mixture. Or something that would burst into flames... or stink really badly. Never happened. However, this sort of thing is much cooler! It's called a "Briggs-Rauscher reaction" and is fascinating to watch. Check it out! >> Commas. Do we even really understand how they work?They're those funny little curly things that we drop in the middle of sentences whenever we think we need a pause, like now. But they can also have a huge impact on meaning. So it's important that we all learn how to use these tiny curly bits of typography. And avoid syntactical armageddon! Read! >> The stuff of graphic designers' nightmares"Yay! The wine bottle label job is finished and the client sent us a few bottles for our portfolio. Let's open a bottle to celebr... OMIGAWD!!! The greek text* is STILL ON THE LABEL!!" Pandemonium ensues. Fortunately this has never happened to us. >> It's the What? Craft Corner!They can be little, they can be big. They can hold your stuff! Here's a how-to for making inexpensive and easy peasy felt boxes. Make a few! >> Let's add a little drama to your Friday!In this thrilling video, watch the intrepid protagonist press onward, never tiring or wavering in resolve. Maybe a little veering and wobbling, but never a hint of surrender. Truly a Sysyphean undertaking! >> Where's your towel?Just a quick reminder that today is Towel Day. Do you know where your towel is? If not, duck out on your lunch break and pick one up at the nearest towelery. You do sass the whole towel thing, right? Just in case you don't know, here's a little background for you, straight from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy *"Greek text" is the place-holder text used in page layouts and it's actually Latin. A bunch of jumbled Latin nonsense that typically starts out "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..." Now you know. Share the fun with a friend! It's easy, just click the "Forward email" link below. They'll be glad you did! |
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