Sept 8, 2010: Cool DIY Envelopes

xoxoxoBruce · 09-08-2010, 12:42 AM

boingboing points to this site, where you can enter an address, and print out cool envelopes with the Google picture of the location on the inside.

If you want the recipient to actually use it to find you, I'd keep the location away from the top fold, where they might use a letter opener.

You might print one out for a pattern, to make envelopes from other cool material later.

sandypossum · 09-08-2010, 03:16 AM

I am so impressed! I put in our address, in the middle of nowhere in the Australian bush, and it found us! Even the average GPS doesn't find us. I would have attached the image, but then you'd all know where to find us. Not that we're paranoid, no no no.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-08-2010, 03:50 AM

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Koalas and Roos?
Google do!

monster · 09-08-2010, 07:02 AM

That's gonna creep my sister out!

wolf · 09-08-2010, 12:04 PM

Tried to do one for the nuthouse, didn't work because the program decided I wanted a Street with the same name as the Drive that the nuthouse is on ... the street is a couple miles away. Strange because if you use google maps or google earth on the nuthouse address, it goes right to it.

TheMercenary · 09-09-2010, 07:36 AM

Cool, now if you were marooned on a deserted island and had that, and printed one, and put it in a bottle... never mind.

ZenGum · 09-09-2010, 07:58 AM

That's cool, but I don't get this bit:

Quote:

print out cool envelopes with the Google picture of the location on the inside.

If you've printed the picture of the address you're sending to, you should put the map on the outside, to help the postie. Even more creepy.

Or hey, choose an address at random, print the envelope with their location picture inside it and send it to them marked with "I know where you live" on the outside and their house circled with "here!" on the inside. Just to freak them out.

Lamplighter · 09-09-2010, 08:02 AM

Now that's pure evil !

classicman · 09-09-2010, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum

print the envelope with their location picture inside it and send it to them marked with "I know where you live" on the outside and their house circled with "here!" on the inside.

I did that to tw...

JUST KIDDING!

seakdivers · 09-09-2010, 10:03 PM

Google maps never gets our house right. It always points to some house down the street.

spudcon · 09-09-2010, 10:46 PM

Creepy. I put in the name of my town, and it pointed to my house. Then I typed in a friend's street name, different town, and it pointed to her house. Has web neutral passed? Do I put on my tinfoil hat?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-09-2010, 10:49 PM

Your houses must be about in the center of the zip code.

spudcon · 09-10-2010, 09:31 AM

I'll wear my tifoil anyway, just in case.

ARR · 10-04-2010, 01:49 PM

Not a bad idea..!

Glinda · 10-04-2010, 02:01 PM

Who knew DIY envelopes came in the shape of Darth Vader's head?

09-08-2010, 12:42 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Sept 8, 2010: Cool DIY Envelopes boingboing points to this site, where you can enter an address, and print out cool envelopes with the Google picture of the location on the inside. If you want the recipient to actually use it to find you, I'd keep the location away from the top fold, where they might use a letter opener. You might print one out for a pattern, to make envelopes from other cool material later. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-08-2010, 03:16 AM	#2
sandypossum tri-continental dag hag Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 247	I am so impressed! I put in our address, in the middle of nowhere in the Australian bush, and it found us! Even the average GPS doesn't find us. I would have attached the image, but then you'd all know where to find us. Not that we're paranoid, no no no. __________________ you're never too old to have a happy childhood

09-08-2010, 03:50 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Koalas and Roos? Google do! __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-08-2010, 07:02 AM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	That's gonna creep my sister out! __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-08-2010, 12:04 PM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Tried to do one for the nuthouse, didn't work because the program decided I wanted a Street with the same name as the Drive that the nuthouse is on ... the street is a couple miles away. Strange because if you use google maps or google earth on the nuthouse address, it goes right to it. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-09-2010, 07:36 AM	#6
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Cool, now if you were marooned on a deserted island and had that, and printed one, and put it in a bottle... never mind. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-09-2010, 08:02 AM	#8
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Now that's pure evil !

09-09-2010, 10:03 PM	#10
seakdivers Icy Queen Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southeast Alaska Posts: 700	Google maps never gets our house right. It always points to some house down the street.

09-09-2010, 10:46 PM	#11
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	Creepy. I put in the name of my town, and it pointed to my house. Then I typed in a friend's street name, different town, and it pointed to her house. Has web neutral passed? Do I put on my tinfoil hat? __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

09-09-2010, 10:49 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Your houses must be about in the center of the zip code. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-10-2010, 09:31 AM	#13
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	I'll wear my tifoil anyway, just in case. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

10-04-2010, 01:49 PM	#14
ARR Person Who Has Posted Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2	Not a bad idea..!

10-04-2010, 02:01 PM	#15
Glinda Fucktard Resistance League Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: 1.14 acres of heaven Posts: 1,512	Who knew DIY envelopes came in the shape of Darth Vader's head?

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