criminalwisdom: GERMANY’S REMARKABLE PROSTITUTION TAX METER Prostitution is legal in Germany. It’s also taxable. While it’s fairly easy to collect a “sex tax” from brothels, “sauna clubs,” and other sex purveying establishments, it’s trickier to make sure freelance streetwalkers pay up. The city of Bonn has a solution: An automated street meter where prostitutes pay a nightly fee to ply their trade. The converted parking meters, which went into effect Monday, are expected to raise about $285,000 a year. (Source: Geeko System - image via Clapstar) lol
utnereader: gardensinunexpectedplaces: Plantbombing! Yarnbombing — or the cozying up of the urban landscape with random acts of gorgeous knitting — has already been seen popping up in a number of cities. Now San Francisco-based urban knitter and guerilla gardeners Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek have publicly come out with yarn bombing’s next evolution: planting low-maintenance species in beautifully hand-knitted yarn pockets all over their fair city. Inspired after this year’s International Yarn Bombing Day, the husband and wife pair call their project “Plantbombing,” and it combines Heather’s love of “urban knitting” and Derek’s skill at gardening. Using yarn, a bit of soil, and some hardy plants, the result is a hands-off, smile-inducing work of art.  For those of you who want to try making your own plant pockets, Heather’s site provides the instructions to get started. (via Plantbombing: Colorful Yarn-Wrapped Plants Soften Up The City : TreeHugger) Someday DIY activists are going to run out of things to turn into “bombs.” That day is not today.
utnereader: (via Designboom) The Cowboy Comb is a 27-tooth design from Brian Lee and Chad H that has an upper lip indent and winged handles to you groom your fashionable moustache.The comb, which is being promoted by its creators on Kickstarter comes packaged together with a tub of cowboy comb moustache wax.
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