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Today In Awesome (And Just Weird): Tokens, Letterhead, Car Skin

By Margaret Lyons in Miscellaneous on Jun 11, 2008 8:58PM

Yeargh, we wish organizations still had letterhead this pretty.


Image from the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Click to embiggen.

Instead, I just got a press release from Todd Stroger's assistant from what appears to be her personal AOL account. Don't eat tomatoes, BTW.

2008_6_11.tokenthingie.jpgFrom Neatorama and What Is It? comes this unusual, dime-size token (pictured, right). Any idea what it is?

Scarlett Johansson and Barack Obama are e-mail buddies. "'You'd imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly traveling and constantly 'on' — how can he return these personal e-mails?...But he does.'"[Politico]

Car! Of! The Fuuuuutuuuuuure! [via]

Pig in boots. Owww, my heart.

We don't really know what this is, but we like it. "Fallen."

100 best first lines from novels. 100 best last lines (.pdf, not sure why).


One more after the jump....


Well, an ape at a typewriter is certainly one way to illustrate a story about drunk driving....

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