The BumperActive site is live and running: build your own bumper stickers (like this one), on the cheap at get them shipped to you as a one-off. Your friends (and people who see your sticker) can order more. Fund your charity! — Read the rest

The Maine Democratic Party has teamed up with the progressive sticker-and-more company Bumperactive (previously) to produce a line of Stephen King-themed, anti-Susan Collins merch, with proceeds going to unseat the Republican Senator whose repeated acts of cowardice (especially during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings) demonstrated that she had no commitment to either her stated principles or the people of Maine. — Read the rest

Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "The Texas Democratic Party has released an amazing new t-shirt celebrating four of the strong women at the forefront of the national party: Elizabeth & Hillary & Ruth & Michelle!" The iconic portrait series is, of course, a remix of photographer Richard Avedon's classic psychedelic portraits of The Beatles. — Read the rest

Available as tees and diecut stickers at Bumperactive.

Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "NARAL Pro-Choice Texas has a new tee supporting reproductive rights in the Lone Star State: "Texas, We Need To Talk About The Elephant In The Womb" — a sly dig at the sharply partisan politics that drive the anti-choice movement."

Kyle sez, "Bumperactive custom sticker shop presents a curated selection of Yuletide media ephemera spanning six decades: The 2014 Holiday BUMPERJAM! Skeletor learns the true meaning of Christmas? Check. Santa vs. The Martians? Check. Nutmeg?! CHECK. When all else is lost and Christmas needs saving, the BUMPERJAM is 100% Guaranteed to change the subject."

Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "On February 2, Washington and Colorado, the first two States to legalize recreational marijuana, compete in… The Smoke-A-Bowl! Bumperactive is celebrating the historic event with a special edition of three Smoke-A-Bowl IVXX tees, and a sticker set. — Read the rest

Kyle from Bumperactive sez, "Support the thousands of Texans standing for Women's Reproductive Freedom at the State Capitol this morning with a 'Come And Take It' Uterus tee, printed by Austin printshop Bumperactive and designed by liberal Texas troublemakers Cole Latimer and Carrie Collier-Brown. — Read the rest

Kyle sez, "Y'all kindly blogged the launch of Bumperactive's '50 Ways To Vote Obama Project', where we created an Obama sticker for every state. We completed 52 designs (including DC and PR) at the end of August."

There Must Be….
50 Fifty-Two Ways to Vote Obama! — Read the rest

Kyle from Bumperactive sez,

I wanted to do something to graphically illustrate the way Obama is a new kind of candidate, so I've launched the "50 Ways To Vote Obama" project, where I'm designing a different Barack Bumper Sticker for each state in the Union.

Welcome to ReasonableAgreement.org — where we make mincemeat of End User License Agreements. As you move through space, as you look at the Web, when you buy things, when you travel, it's increasingly the case that you end up making "agreements" to give up your rights. — Read the rest

Bumperactive, makers of fine, progressive and geeky bumper-stickers, have entered into a partnership with the Crawford Peace House, an anti-war center in George W Bush's hometown of Crawford, TX. Bumperactive is selling stickers in support of the Peace House, with 22.5% of the revenue going to the Peace House. — Read the rest

After one brief look at Goatse, your brain is scarred forever. You can't help but see Goatse again and again — in ads, photos, logos, and so on. Here are a few that have been submitted to Boing Boing this week:

Superman advertisement. — Read the rest

The funny folks at BumperActive (who did the Free the Mouse and "I )( WiFi" stickers) have a new mashup project with the New York Times. They scrape the NYT new stories feed, and republish just the headline and the last paragraph, a kind of skip-to-the-punchline approach to news that is surprisingly effective, though sometimes a little surreal. — Read the rest

Kyle sez, "I commissioned Bruce Sterling to develop some bumper sticker concepts for my make-your-own-bumper-sticker site, and he came up with six pretty cool ones. He also gave me a great interview touching on spimes, cyberpunk, and the 'Centipede' scandal he's been blogging." — Read the rest

Kyle sez, "I called the Arkansas Kerry headquarters and managed
to get some scans of the GOP flier that's making the rounds,
declaring that the Bible will be BANNED if the liberals win.
Same-sex marriage, of course, will be ALLOWED. Thought folks
might like to actually see the pics that everyone's talking about
— I haven't seen 'em anywhere else yet." — Read the rest

Beer behemoth Miller Brewing Co. is suing an L.A.-based clothes manufacturer for copyright infringement and brand dilution. The problem? Parodical T-shirts that riff off the Miller slogan, bearing messages like "It's Mullet Time" and "Mullet Low-life." The shirts are available at stores including The Buckle and Nordstrom (where you can buy by them online, for now). — Read the rest

Kyle from BumperActive called Starbucks today to find out why we're not allowed to take pix there. Apparently, we are. I wonder if they'd put it in writing?

So today I call Starbucks Public Affairs Senior Specialist Sanja
Gould to ask her the what gives.

BumperActive is giving away free "Free the Mouse" bumper-stickers to help the world show its support for the Eldred case, where Larry Lessig is fighting to repeal the repeated extension of copyright every time Mickey Mouse's earliest films are in danger of entering the public domain. — Read the rest