Some recent gleanings from Boing Boing:
A Sticky Idea

The Genius Table is an end-table surfaced with a thick pad of giant sticky-notes. Very cool! We could use a handful of these at Cora Syndicate. You can buy one here.
Thinking and Driving

These coasters were printed using a special invisible red ink, which spreads only when moistened. The Mumbai Traffic Police placed at tables and bar counters in Mumbai's prominent bars. When a customer places their moist glass of alcohol on it, the red ink starts spreading and the face starts to bleed. Check the full skizzo here.
Iraq Is Free

LA Weekly has a large PDF of The Liberation of Iraq, a painting by Sandow Birk. Birk has made a number of paintings, including The Liberation of Baghdad, seen here. The paintings are more satirical and ironic, and many are based on paintings of the glories of war in Napoleon’s time and from Russian socialist images of battlefield glories.The Liberation of Baghdad, says Birk, is about “what we were told would happen -- happy, joyfully liberated Iraqis welcoming American troops as we free them from the shackles of oppression.” Check out the large PDF here.
A Pail Ryden

Holly Myers of LA Weekly wrote about Mark Ryden and his latest art exhibition . There are several nice photos of his paintings in the piece. "These pictures," [gallery owner Michael] Kohn remarks, "are just extraordinarily well painted. And they're weird enough to be interesting. I've noticed among my colleagues -- a lot of my colleagues out in New York, who deal with more conceptually based work -- that looking at Mark's work used to be a guilty pleasure. I saw them coming by my booth in the Miami Basel Art Fair and oohing and aahing over this extraordinarily seductive painting. This was not their normal fare but they liked it anyway. Now, little by little, it's shifting. A guy who bought one of the works in this show collects Diebenkorn and Thiebaud and John Currin and some contemporary photographers -- not just figurative work but mainstream contemporary work, and now that also includes Mark Ryden. Now people can finally do it guilt free."
That Ryden will get the attention of the art world is all but assured: He's simply too talented, too rigorous and -- more to the point -- too savvy an artist not to. More interesting, then, is the next question: What does it mean for a serious contemporary artist to be popular?
Mo Betta Sticky

Sticker Nation: The Big Book of Subversive Stickers Volume 1 is a new book from Srini Kumar and Disinformation. Srini is the creator of Unamerican.com whose stickers (i.e., I WORSHIP SATAN HA HA HA and BOY DOES HIGH SCHOOL EVER SUCK) are classic Internet schwag. Srini is incredibly prolific, coming up with sticker designs at a prodigious rate -- he also operates Sticker Nation, where you can roll your own Unamerican-style stickers.
The book is something I've never seen before: 400+ paper bumper stickers, in sheets, in alphabetical order, bound in a big trade paperback. You get hundreds of Unamerican stickers for $15, ready to peel and stick (along with the hilarious back-cover disclaimer: "Please don't sticker up public spaces or other people's property without permission. Use this book with respect for other people's property or you might get into trouble. We are not going to be held liable for your zany vandalism schemes and you are not a freak property damage robot. Use this book correctly for maximum effect.