suburban theology

Idea #3: Grave Sponsors

Sell ad space on or near tombstones, especially those of well-liked people.

Advertisers: Your business or product will gain exposure from an audience that is usually difficult to reach - mourners. Grave site marketing is especially strategic for…

Future Corpses: Choosing to rent out your headstone for marketers will help your family pay for your funeral and any debt you may be leaving them. You can choose whose ads will be displayed, so you can help local businesses, or you can promote your favorite brands and companies even after you’re gone!

To do: Think of punny title for this marketing breakthrough.

The Bathe: A Customizable Bathtub

William Taft probably could’ve used one of these.

Bento Book

Crystal River

“The most beautiful river on earth.” (Photos.)

Enough Already

Using the Video Experimenter Shield, the Arduino is able to decode the closed captioning transcription track, which is transmitted along with the NTSC picture signal. The incoming text is processed for a set of keywords such as “KARDASHIAN” or “SNOOKI” and sends my television’s IR remote control mute command, muting the TV for 30 seconds and then unmuting it (as long as a keyword isn’t mentioned again).

Idea #2

An unplugged television. Its power light indicates that it is off. Onscreen, a ‘mute’ graphic is visible. The screen is partially cracked.

It broadcasts a news station.

Found: A Batch of DNA Molecules That Seem To Have Originated in Space

In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA—including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code—found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here by asteroids, meteorites, or comets sometime in Earth’s early lifetime.

Moral Dilemmas

Vaucanson’s duck, one of the first well-known automata. It digests.

Vaucanson’s duck, one of the first well-known automata. It digests.

I work backstage. I don’t mind not having my name in bright lights outside the theater, I don’t mind not getting asked for autographs. The art is more important than the people who make it.