Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
Here are eight cool photos readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness or usability in a Consumerist post. Check 'em out!
by kevin is your animal spirit
by Triborough
by donbuciak
by Great Beyond
by Great Beyond
by glx79
by peachy177
Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
Note that if you want them to have a shot at ending up on the Consumerist Friday post, you'll need to open up your sharing settings on your Flickr account so we can grab the HTML from the "Share This" tab. Sorry, but that's the only way to get Flickr and Consumerist to play with each other.
Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr Pool, and perhaps they'll get featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post. See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.
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the nixon stamps remind me of a thing that i learned in 1997 about US postage stamps. to put a person's face on a postage stamp they have to be 'significantly dead' [apparently there are degrees of being dead and that doesn't just apply to zombies?]
significantly dead for US presidents is 1 year
for everyone else it's ten years
in 1993 on a trip to visit some of my mom's friends, one of them showed us the stamp he had been commissioned to illustrate - of Ronald Reagan.
yep, like vultures, the USPS commissioned a stamp in 1993 that they knew they wouldn't be able to use for at least a year after Reagan died [which was in 2004 so you don't have to go racing off to wikipedia]
i THINK the only time they broke that rule and put the stamp out earlier was for Dizzy Gillespie. i know it was for a jazz musician but i can't promise it was dizzy and i can't find the publication date of his stamp to compare
@thesadtomato: i don't know, i didn't actually have enough interest in nixon to check on that....... close! he died in 1994. good call
@catastrophegirl:
Nixon was dead long before his heart stopped. Like most right wing nut jobs, his brain expired long before the rest of his body. There has never been a republitard prez worth my spit.
@dragonfire81: Me too. Is it wrong that he doesn't look any more empty or soulless when he's a paper mask with the eyes cut out?
@p51baby: The info that goes with the pic on flickr
Project Green held a demonstration in the UC on Wednesday, October 21st to raise attention to Stephen Harper choosing to tour a Tim Hortons plant in Oakville while world leaders took to the podium at the United Nations.
@wvFrugan: Ah, the eternal question of whether or not you need a soul in order to be counted as "dying".
Discuss!
Hey! I took the Zombie Stephen Harper photo, and yeah, it was all hells of surreal. The actual demonstration was set to benny hill music, with the donut being chased by the Harpers, but when I looked at the images I caught they looked like crazed Harper Zombies. I loved it.
It was at Memorial University, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. I am pretty excited to have been picked for the flickr find front page.
@jessedybka: Zombie Harpers might just be the damned scariest thing ever.
Colour me biased, but he's a tool.
@wvFrugan: You mean the guy who ended the Vietnam war, opened relations with China, and won the SALT I treaty with the Soviet Union? That right-wing nut job? Learn some history, kiddo.



















That baby looks like a little GetemSteveDave