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Waterproof Books
Ant sent in a bit about new Water proof books. From the article "The new dunkable books are made not from trees, but from plastic resins and inorganic fibers. Melcher Media, a New York-based publisher, is promoting books that are manufactured using a technology it calls "Durabooks." The books' pages don't absorb water, and they stretch instead of tearing. Other companies make waterproof books with standard wood-based paper that is heavily laminated in the printing process."
Let me guess... they'll next be applying this to make magazines more resistant to various bodily fluids!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
What this can do to Porn Mags!!!
This SIG pulled due to lack of funding. (This damn war is costing too much!)
"If you masturbate in the bathtub, that's part of the idea -- even though it doesn't say it in the promotional material," Mohanraj said. "If you get distracted, it's not so bad to drop the book in the bathtub."
This product should do well on slashdot. Thinkgeek, how about it?
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Somehow, the idea of our pr0n lasting 500 years to be found by an archeologist leaves me with a strange sense of foreboding about the future of the human species...
Or imagine... someone 500 years from now finds a slashdot post... somehow gets the idea that Soviet Russia is a Profit center of our world...
Scary!
You can have it fast, accurate, or pretty. Pick any 2.
Vanderbilt University Library's rare books collection used to have a copy of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 printed on asbestos . I don't know if they still have it as they probably threw it away in the current asbestos hysteria. It was there in 1977 anyway.
but you can't feed it throught a laser printer or copier or it will melt on the hot roller.
Did you learn this how I think you learned it?
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Even if the conditon is 'like new', I'm still not buying someone's old edition of 'Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath'...
"I can think of several uses to this kind of technology. Cookbooks for one always get things spilled on them."
Yeah, I can't wait for Maxim to use this technology either.
"Derp de derp."