Breakfast Links: USPS, Students and Chocolate Christ

So hot on the heels of R2D2 mailboxes, the USPS is about to release their Star Wars stamps. Their whole homepage is focussed on the new stamps and they’re letting you vote for your favourite stamp, the winner of said vote to be released as an individual stamp (the rest are part of a sheet). I gotta admit, I love that storm troopers one, although the falcon’s pretty great, too. Hm.. and the Leia/R2 one. I need to think very carefully about my vote, I suggest you do the same, this isn’t something to be undertaken lightly.
UPDATE - this guy wonders if the stamps are self adhesive or if you get to lick the Leia’s back! Gross!
UPDATE 2 - now this guy put some good thought into his vote! That’s what I’m talking about! I was thinking about that representative bit as a criteria of my vote (and he suggests some good scenes that would have been nice in the stamps), but those storm troopers are good. Although I still might vote for Leia/R2.

Here we have some interesting news on students. First we have the A-students suing Turnitin (which checks for cases of plagiarism) for copyright infringement (via slashdot). You can’t believe a company like that would just take all submissions and add them in to their database, no opt-in or anything. Duh. And then you have the, not-A-students, er… not doing so well on their tests. I’d give full credits to “Checking in” as well as “Expand”

So artist Cosima Cavallaro has created a Chocolate Jesus out of 200 pounds of chocolate. He has called it “My Sweet Lord” and gives you the nutritional facts to go along with it (check the link for the pic of this). That’s pretty awesome, but I really just wanted to put this quote in from the Esquire piece, “Man cannot live on bread alone, but if he were to consume Cosimo Cavallaro’s newest creation he could live off of Jesus — for approximately eight months.” Wish I could come up with that!

Mar 30th, 2007 · Comments RSS · · · · · Tags: art · breakfast links · sci-fi