Oh, those clever Brit designers:

The flip-top cigarette pack is one of the most successful pieces of packaging design in history. TankBooks pay homage to this iconic form by employing it in the service of great literature. We have launched a series of books designed to mimic cigarette packs — the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.

And if you get bored, you can always rip out the pages for rolling paper.

Tales to Take Your Breath Away [TankBooks]

Somebody went to the trouble of gathering all the, um, independently spelled teabagger signs into a convenient Flickr stream, and of all the delightful ironies on offer, we chose this one for your definitional pleasure.

Close second: “Preserve the Sactity of Marriage.”

Teabonics [Flickr]

No, we’re not indulging in April tomfoolery. On his show last night, Billo schooled Stinque Book Club favorite Jason Mattera on congressional etiquette — in this case, disrespecting the senator from the great state of Minnesota by calling him “Senator Smalley” to his face in a Capitol Hill ambush interview.

Not impressed? Try this:

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1. What do you get when you cross the GOP faux-census fundraising mailer with the GOP faux-lesbian club scandal?

A GOP faux-census fundraising mailer with an 800 number to a phone-sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute”!

2. What do you get when you cross Sarah Palin’s faux-guest Fox show with an RNC faux-guest fundraising event?

Sarah Palin demanding that she not be listed as a faux guest to the RNC fundraising event!

Thanks for playing GOP Meme Mash-Up!

Kansas congresscritter Todd Tiahrt prides himself on being a bedrock fiscal conservative. “We simply cannot trust the administration or the powers of Washington to voluntarily control spending,” he says.

Take his office. In 2008, Tiahrt spent $1.26 million running the joint. But thanks to recession-inspired belt-tightening, his 2009 budget was a mere $1.41 million.

Now that might look to you like an 11 percent jump. But you’re not taking into account perfectly understandable mitigating circumstances:

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As this is the plane I’ll fly on when I finally head for Japan, I’m very pleased:

This is the carbon-fiber Boeing 787 Dreamliner at 150% service load during the ultimate wing load test required for FAA certification. During the test, the wingtips underwent 25 feet of vertical deflection without failing. Engineering is awesome. [Boeing via Wired]

Boeing 787 Dreamliner : Ultimate Wing Load Test [Jalopnik]

The fine village of Fucking, Austria, now has a fine beverage named for it!

“In German the word for a lager beer is a Helles beer, so we have also patented the name Fucking Hell, which means lager from Fucking, of course. I don’t understand why the patents office think of something else. They must have dirty minds.”

We think kids would be a lot more interested in geography if they knew about this.

Brewer Names Beer for Austrian Town [Newser, via Blogenfreude]

Update: Silent Creative Partner asks where Fucking, Austria, is exactly, so we’ve enlisted Google Maps to help:

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