UK’s Royal Mail to Release Doctor Who Stamps

UK’s Royal Mail to Release Doctor Who Stamps:

The stamps will be available for purchase from 26 March 2013 and available online at royalmail.com/stamps and at Post Offices across the UK. Fans can also pre-order the stamps by registering at royalmail.com/DoctorWho
Our stamps features each of the Eleven Doctors – from William Hartnell, the first ever Doctor, to Matt Smith, the current Time Lord – depicting all the actors who have played the role on the BBC over the last five decades. The stamp designs see the face of each Doctor appearing out of the iconic swirling screen idents, made famous by the opening credits of the TV show.
In addition to the 11 stamps featuring the Doctors, a five stamp miniature sheet will also be available. In the centre of the sheet is a stamp featuring the Doctor’s space and time travelling machine, the world famous Time and Relative Dimension in Space or the TARDIS as it is more commonly known. The remaining four stamps feature some of the Doctor’s most famous foes; a Dalek, a Cyberman, an Ood and a Weeping Angel.

Unfortunately, I’m Canadian, so I won’t be able to order any of these, but come March, if any of you guys in the U.K. are feeling charitable, I’d really love to put my hands on a set.

[Royal Mail | Via Topless Robot]

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William Shatner Wants you to Worship Your Hair, Wherever it Can Grow [Video]

William Shatner Wants you to Worship Your Hair, Wherever it Can Grow [Video]:

Yep, this is pretty disturbing. I’ll have to reflect on this as part as my traditional new year introspection process.
[Via Rob @ IO9]

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How People Live In The Suburbs: A Vintage Illustrated Gem

How People Live In The Suburbs: A Vintage Illustrated Gem:
“Swinging is a good time to close your eyes and make-believe.”
Much has been written about what makes a great city, with recent theories placing walkability atop the list of favorable assets, deeming suburbs among the least desirable, most unsustainable, most culturally insular places to live. In fact, every week from now until 2050 more than a million people are being added to our cities. But the city-suburb relationship didn’t always skew this way — in the first half of the 20th century, suburban sprawl was hailed as a pinnacle of industrial progress and by the 1950s, more Americans lived in suburbs than anywhere else.
Last week, while researching the lovely vintage gem The Little Golden Book of Words, I came upon another out-of-print treasure: How People Live In The Suburbs (UK; public library) by Muriel Stanek, originally published in 1970 as an educational supplement teaching primary school children about the basics of social studies. Through a mix of vibrant illustrations by Bernadine Bailey and photographs by Philip Gendreau, the slim 48-page book captures the golden age of utopian visions for suburbia, a bittersweet memento from one of history’s greatest failures of urban planning.














How People Live In The Suburbs was published as part of a Basic Understanding series of primary school supplements, also including How People Earn and Use Money, How Farms Help Us, and How Our Government Helps Us — all, sadly, out of print but delightful if you’re able to secure a copy.

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