Flimsy interview with a fortune-cookie writer, who mentions stealing some from email chain-letters. "Never mention God, avoid sexism, and shy away from predicting the future."
Brilliance: "Enter a message here and it will be printed off, put in a bottle and thown from Brighton Pier on the south coast of England."
Well, "go anywhere without a slight breeze" - a printable Scrabble board, but with cut-out paper tiles. Maybe I'll work on a tileless paper version.
Bits of paper and cardboard from the people who make the tickbox greetings cards. Some good stuff. "Leave notes for your loved ones telling them exactly what they must do to ensure your happiness on a daily basis."
Facetious new tour leaflets at Tate Britain, which looked like they were planted by a stalker - design your own, and get it added to the collection, with a VIP pass thrown in.
Roshambo with fifteen elements, and a nice diagram. "Rock pounds out fire, crushes scissors, snake, human, wolf, sponge, blocks (growth of) tree."
"The cells and liquid hydrogel are placed in the printer cartridge and then dropped in three-dimensional, 1-microliter dots that form layers as the hydrogel solidifies. After many layers [...], the cells fuse into tissue that forms 3-D structures."
A hundred games you can play with a pen and paper - a mix of old classics, media conversions ("Single Take Go") and weird obscurities or inventions. One per page, explained with a simple hand-drawn graph-paper diagram. No Scrabble, though.
Cheap, paper-thin displays. "The company believes there will also be a market for using them for simple computer games which could be printed on the side of a package or given away free in magazines."
"In the 1980s the CIA produced a small illustrated booklet in both Spanish and English designed to destabilise the Nicaraguan government and economic system."
Wonderful pieces of tiny origami, set in the outline of the paper they were cut from.
"I tried (and still do) to focus on using only lines and shapes that are in the original box to guide what the BoxBot will look like. While in Antarctica, I became obsessed with this project from the perspective of waste re-use."
A board with editable circles, that you can use as personal notepaper while playing the game over instant messenger or something. Still astonished that there's no better way to play this online.
"Mr Annies was disciplined after Royal Mail bosses discovered he had delivered his own leaflet to houses on his south Wales round highlighting a little-known opt-out clause which can stop unwanted mailshots."
A brilliantly low-tech shredder - a pair of scissors with five parallel blades.
LCD-style post-it note overlays. "The method is simple: print page one of the OVERnote file. This is a template that shows you where to stick your 3'' x 3'' super sticky post-its. Print the second page of the PDF file over your nicely arranged post-its."
The out-of-print 1978 board game, now with new board art. "The zombie player rolls two dice and refers to the Zombie Entrance Table to determine if new zombie units enter the shopping centre from any of the main doors."
Another Glass Bead spinoff, with post-it notes. "Two or more players take turns writing ideas on sticky-notes and placing them on the gameboard. Every idea must connect somehow to at least one previously-played idea."
send to Sarah Lickiss?? Natalie?
templates, patterns for making your own cards -- send this to Natalie, Charlie--Sarah