These stickers, when properly placed, can help spread evolution awareness to areas of the world that are evolution-free. Slap them on skateboards, cars, or even slow-moving people who deserve to be stickered. They are especially effective in areas frequented by impressionable children.
How to make stickers
Download the "Sheet o' Darwins" PDF file and print it onto a "full sheet" label page (e.g., Avery 5265). If you want bigger stickers, just crop a 3 x 4 section of the PDF before printing. Peeling the sticker backing off the resulting squares is indescribably annoying, but at least we have opposable thumbs, for reasons we don't have to go into. I also have had great success, and fun, printing out these files onto magnetic inkjet paper (you can "sticker" ferrous objects without damaging the surfaces). If you are lazy and just want to buy some, my friend at FPDImages will make them for you.
More about the image, if you're at all curious
The portrait of Darwin is from an 1881 photograph taken around the time he published his blockbuster, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Action of Worms." I thought the image had good potential to be virally attractive. The overall design shamelessly emulates the "Andre The Giant Has A Posse" art project that popped up around Providence in the late 1980s when I was a graduate student at Brown University. Did Darwin really weigh 163 pounds? Well, he was 10.5 stone after The Beagle adventure, and "overweight" in his later years, and 163 lbs is my best guess at his fighting weight. Regardless, at one point in his life (if even for only a day) he did weigh 163 pounds. He was actually 5' 11 1/2", if you want more of the gruesome details. By the way, Chuck's dad weighed 24 stone; definitely supersized, but not as heavy as André the Giant (37 stone). And yes, using his image is, indeed, just a lame ploy to increase the face recognition of Darwin among children.
Blog button (deters frisky creationists from hitting on you!)
| <a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm"><img src="http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/RSS-POSSE.png" alt="Charles Darwin Has A Posse" width="80" height="15" border="0"></a> |
See stickers in action:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=darwin+posse&s=rec
Suggestions, feedback, and hate mail
Colin Purrington
610-328-8621 (office)
cpurrin1@swarthmore.edu
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