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‘Little Golden Book’-Style Movie Scene Illustrations

I am loving these Little Golden Book-style illustrations by Josh Cooley. Some of them are a bit morbid and definitely not appropriate for children, but seeing these famous movie scenes done in a whimsical, youthful way breathes new life into familiar performances. Here are some of my favs: Individual prints are $50 each (limited runs of 100, signed and numbered by the artist), or you can purchase a book with all of them here. Via Laughing Squid....

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Know Your Nuts and Bolts

I have a tendency to keep all the extra screws, nuts, and bolts that come with electronics, toys, furniture, etc just in case we have a malfunction in the middle of the night and ohmigosh this thingamajig just fell apart because it's missing ONE screw but Home Depot isn't open! So as you can probably imagine, our toolbox carries a giant mess of various fasteners in all shapes and sizes. I could never really tell the difference between each nut or bolt, or even what they're called. Enter Bolt Depot's interactive guide to fasteners. Not only does it describe the different nuts, bolts, washers, etc, it also tells you what each should be used for and offers a downloadable PDF for offline viewing. For instance, did...

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Post-Partum Hair Loss

A couple of weeks ago I noticed an unusual amount of hair lying around the house. Note that I am always "shedding" a lot of hair — one of my ex-boyfriends used to say that he could always tell which rooms I have been in just by looking at the hair on the ground — so imagine just how much more hair there must be for me to become concerned. My post-partum hair loss had started. I had read that some women's hair can fall out in clumps, and that's exactly what has been happening to me. Chunks of matted hair on my pillow. A mangled mess in the bathroom drain. And hair everywhere on the floor. I keep my hair up in a...

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