Actually, some of his stuff might appeal to people here--there's this one, which doesn't come across too well at that size, where he painted a landscape with a tiny UFO in the air, and then painted a closeup of the section with the UFO, with the highly visible brushstrokes standing in for the fuzzification of photo closeups. Whenever Jim talks about UFO stuff it makes me think of my brother's work.

Oh, and I meant to ask where that "grapefruit vs. xkcd" thing came from...it's hilarious.

What Would Ray Mears Do?

Dave Bell: Did you by any chance catch the Good Eats: Down and Out in Paradise special? Alton Brown ably demonstrates the folly and frustration involved in trying to open a coconut.

(What's the word for that type of chart? I'm coming up empty. I blame libertarians.)

abi, those screens are delightful; I hadn't seen that before. Easy to make, too.

Some day, will everything in my notebooks have been done?

I particularly like the ones where there's a transparent screen in front of a transparent screen in front of a...

(And the last one, where the hand appears to be reaching into the screen.)

Honors to him for including tomatoes.

The European Union entry for the Flag campaign is dumb. Countries (and groups of countries) import stuff they don't produce. Gasp! The others make a point (although some of the data seems dubious without research), but "Europeans use more petroleum than they produce! Oh Noes!!!eleven!!" really doesn't work.