MetaFilter posts tagged with calendars

Should auld calendars be tossed out, and never brought to mind?

orange swan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:21:53 -0800

As 2009 approaches, you’re taking down your old calendars and wondering what to do with them. You still enjoy those Monet/Jeff Foxworthy/rose garden/Playmate images so much you hate to throw them in the recycling bin. Don’t worry, there are ways to reinvent that calendar so you can enjoy those images for years to come. For starters, you could make envelopes and notecards out the calendar. Though perhaps you won’t want to use your new Playmate stationery to write to Grandma. Calendars can be turned into recycled wrapping paper and bows. If you’re a real packrat and have a ten-year-old calendar kicking around, you may be able to turn it into a calendar for the current year. Calendars can become lampshades or mobiles. If you’re into decoupage, you know that you can decoupage practically anything, from a waste basket to old suitcases to flower pots to your shoes. And there are lots of other possible project ideas. If you’ve got an old planner you liked, you can make one like it and reuse the old cover. And as you craft on New Year’s Day, you can savour the irony of using the act of memorializing the old year to try to forget your alcohol-enabled indiscretions of the night before.

People time

gwint — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:53:30 -0800

Human Calendar (See also: World Clock. Previously: Human Clock, Yugo's clock)

Advent calendars 2005

Lynsey — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:12:50 -0800

Advent calendars 2005. Back when the internets were very young, people began combining a wonderful old holiday tradition, the Advent calendar, with the latest in communications, the internet, and thus it was that interactive Advent calendars were born. This one (requires Flash) was the first one I ever saw and here are some other of my favorites: Leslie Harpold's and Tibi and Beens. Want more? Check Google.

Got any naked pictures of your grandparents?

longsleeves — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:09:17 -0800

Wanna buy some? I guess it's okay, If it's for a good cause....

Date With Density

LinusMines — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:47:27 -0800

Fluffy Kittens' Lunar Wheel Calendar gives a different turn to scheduling for 2005. Download high-resolution images -- free under Creative Commons license -- and construct your own, or opt for a ready-made color poster. Disclaimer: No actual fluffy kittens involved in this post.

Make your own 12 sided calendar

meowchow — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:07:09 -0800

Bored at work ? , pick a shape/year and put that printer at work to good use and make your boss a 12 sided calendar.

Serious News And Soft Porn: Are They, In Fact, The Same Thing? ;)

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:08:51 -0800

All The Nudes That Are Fit To Print: It's no exaggeration to say La Repubblica is Italy's finest newspaper. It's liberal, modern, intelligent and independent. Along with Spain's El Pais; France's Libération and Le Monde; the UK's Guardian; Germany's Die Zeit and Portugal's Público, it's one of the mainstays of the European Left and Centre-Left. And yet its website offers calendars in the, er, Pirelli tradition of time-keeping. Imagine the New York Times being similarly... liberal. Can soft prOn and serious reporting live together? Is it an Italian thing? The only other example I can think of is Spain's Interviú, a magazine which in its heyday mixed superb (again, left-leaning) investigative journalism with politically incorrect - and photographically retouched - tits and ass. (NSFW, obviously, unless you're somewhere in Southern Europe or Louisiana.)

Does anybody really know what time it is, does anybody really care?

moonbird — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:15:44 -0800

What day is it? Depends who you ask... how we measure the passage of time varies in wonderfully elaborate ways worldwide, past and present. Some folks want to create a uniform calendar, and you may recall Swatch's quixotic attempt at "Internet Time." Colorful heuristics aside, there's always timelessness as an option.

The Year of the Goat

Plunge — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:10:04 -0800

Let the celebrations begin! According to the Chinese calendar, tomorrow begins the year 4700. The festivals and superstitions surround the celebration for the new year are fascinating in China as well as Korea. Which animal year were you born in and do you follow the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean zodiac? Finally, the mathematics behind the calendar are truly fascinating.

mrbula — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:58:51 -0800

Early tomorrow morning we'll hit 2:02:02 2-02-'02.

scottymac — Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:18:32 -0800

Happy November 31st! Senators and Congressmen Order Botched Calendars With an Extra Day.

redhead — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:52:18 -0800

Ever wonder about the Islamic Calendar? finishing up the month of Rajab about Oct 16 "The number of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah's ordinance since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Of these four are known as sacred" (Holy Quran, ch., v 36)Muharram, Rajab, Dhul Qadah and Dhul Hijja are considered to be sacred months. Fighting during these sacred months is considered to be a sin. I am so ignorant of other cultures.