Pets travel in style. Pet owners in first class who worry about their pooches stuck in cargo need fret no longer. Pet Airways will offer a pet-only service, reports news.com.au. Animals will be in the actual cabin (albeit still in a cage and with restraining belts). This doesn’t strike us as an idea that will survive the GFC. Then again, people do have a habit of putting their pets before sense.
The web sets off micro-manufacturing boom. As sites like eBay have shown, anyone with a bit of time and pluck can have an online store with minimal set-up costs that reaches a worldwide audience. Clive Thompson picks up on the trend in Wired, chatting about how the web makes purchasing one-off hand-made goods cost effective — and fun:
Judging from the explosive growth of Etsy and other online boutiques, the Web is spawning a curious new trend: micro-manufacturing. Consider the numbers. Etsy has 2 million users buying nearly $90 million worth of stuff annually. Its sales have increased twentyfold in the past two years.
Crikey Etsy find of the day: Picture of a telephone girl by theblackapple.
Meat ants v cane toads. Looks like the evil toads are still winning. But nice try.
Wow. Cosmic question mark. From National Geographic, a picture of punctuation in space: “Call it a Freudian picture. Even as the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope is in question, astronomers are celebrating the famed observatory’s 19th year conducting science in space with this image of a galactic mixer that seems to trace a giant glowing question mark.”
