Sundays Are for Comics and Laundry

Hi folks -- if your Sundays are anything like mine, it's means reading the Sunday funnies and doing laundry. So here are a few links to go with that.

First off, Happy Chinese New Year -- it's the Year of the Dog.

Here's a Toothpaste for Dinner Comic from 2004 that's still kind of relevant:

It's a repackaging of an oldish joke used by comedians mining the lunar calendar for yuks, but I laughed anyway.

Next up, today's edition of Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine comic features another blog theme (see a previous take on the subject):

Click the comic to check out the punch line -- it's all about people's (or Rat's, in this case) motivation for blogging.

Moving on to laundry items, there was a piece on Digg.com today that was getting some attention -- it's instructions on how to build a t-shirt folding machine out of cardboard [it's a video link -- the title card is in French, but the instructions are all graphical.].

It's pretty cool, though I note that there is also a commercial product ("As Seen on TV") that does the same thing, if you want to pay $15 for it.

One of the things you'll see about Digg is that you never know what's going to catch people's attention. Plus, you'll usually see multiple versions of the same link or story -- it's a little hit or miss as to what headline people react to -- another version of the t-shirt folding thing, for example, was posted five days ago, but only got 14 diggs (or votes), whereas this weekend's article has over 1,800 diggs and counting.

The earlier article also features a t-shirt folding technique video that was pretty big last year or so -- it lets you fold a t-shirt in 3 or 4 seconds. Here's a few clips found from Google Video:

It works fast, though I don't really like how the sleeves end up.

This is all kind of theoretical right now -- I have to go do the laundry before I can fold it.

Now, if only they had something like this for ironing.

I hate ironing.

Thanks -- Joe