I remember in college when the show Futurama came out, many people I know were very excited. Some of them even convinced me to watch the first episode of the cartoon to see if, indeed, it was as funny as The Simpsons (I will refrain from live-linking here on the assumption that most readers are familiar with the show).
Not being a huge fan of The Simpsons, it’s not surprising that I didn’t end up following Futurama. I will never foget, however, a brief flash in one scene to a planet piled high with thousands of AOL CDROMs (and nothing else) as a nod to the fact that 1) everyone throws them away and 2) that’s where all our trash might end up some day.
So imagine my amusement when, years later, I came accross this CD coaster craft project on About.com. It’s one of hundreds of “Trash to Treasure” projects compiled on the site ranging from corny (avoid the “blue jean” section entirely) to inspired (see above). In fact, an entire section is devoted to ideas for those soon-to-be-obsolete disks once used to store music in the Global North and still used to ship research at cheap rates to the South.
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