The Annals of Recycling: Home Entertainment Edition…
What to do with those Netflix tear-off flaps? Well, one can of course simply throw them away… but one can more gratifyingly fold them into something beautiful, for instance a shirt…
or a frog…
or even the traditional swan…
See other examples, and instructions for each, at Netflix Origami.
As we flex our fingers, we might recall that it was on this date exactly 100 years ago (1908) in Flint, Michigan, that the General Motors Corporation was founded as a holding company for Buick and Oldsmobile. The next year, GM acquired Cadillac, Oakland (which became Pontiac) and Reliance (which was the core, with Rapid, also acquired in 09, of what became GMC Trucks).