Index This!

You know how sometimes when you are secretly eating a frozen Ho ho in the hall closet, a BRILLIANT Alexander Graham Bell type idea will occur to you and then you gather all your friends and you’re like: “GUYS you know how we have microwaves that instantly heat things up? I’m going to invent a freeze-o-wave that instantly cools things down! It’ll be REVOLUTIONARY!”
And then everyone is all: “Dude, are you eating a FROZEN HO HO? SICK. By the way—that’s already been invented. It’s called liquid nitrogen—DUHH.”

And then you feel really small and creatively thwarted.

Well, a friend just recommended this blog to me and I want to be like: “HEY GUYS: I just discovered this blog; it is SO AWESOME,” but the sensible part of me realizes that everyone else has already read it and referenced it—including the guys from the Freakonomics blog.

The blog I’m talking about is www.indexed.blogspot.com . It’s marvelous because it uses simple index cards and humorous diagrams to explain relatively complex (or stupid) ideas, concepts and occurrences.
For example: the relationship between despair, isolation and celibacy? (SWEAT PANTS).

Here is one of my recent favorite blog posts titled:

YOUR ONE-STOP-SHOP for HALLOWEEN