July 2008
8 posts
“The phrase ‘The Customer is Always Right’ is the single worst philosophy that...”
– Two Phrases That Destroyed American Culture - Violent Acres
Profile of the Sociopath →
So, how many of these do you know?
Young Spacers Association Blog →
“…built by Toyota in an assembly line with robots and conveyor belts, and...”
– Toyota Cranking Out More Prefabs : TreeHugger
“A quarter weighs about a fifth of an ounce. At today’s silver price of around...”
– Bingo! by Doug French
“What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?”
– What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?
“You are now paying for holding yourself back from innovation. We’re not...”
– Just a Zilch: Non-advice for Auto Makers in Crisis
“People said that Reagan’s 436 would stand forever, but right now, as you can see, this president stands on 423, meaning his record should fall less than two weeks from today. And they said it shouldn’t be done.”
June 2008
42 posts
alex dragulescu :: projects →
truthtag →
alive : miriku - asalting golden strawmen →
The Third Place →
“VERB OF THE MONTH: “TO YARL”
– Explaining The Verb “To Yarl”
“But why bother? Why not cut out the middleman and plug your car directly into...”
– The end of the petrolhead | Economist.com
“By spinning a 26-ton steel sphere filled with boiling metal at about 90 miles an...”
– Discovery News : Discovery Channel: Experiment Mimics Earth’s Core
“there was, however, just one small hitch. The only available wall to install a...”
– The Stalled Server Room - The Daily WTF
“I asked him what happened. “Shot,” he said. “Shot in the...”
– Kevin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
... MER ... →
Gas guzzlers of the 1970s →
Funny how a lot of these get about as good mileage as your average current SUV. We learned nothing. At least these have character.
“They all have a unique shape known as hyperbolic geometric structures and these...”
– Hyperbolic Crochet Reef Comes to London : TreeHugger
Kleptocracy →
Where do you live?
“…global warming threatens to overwhelm any progress made on other issues....”
– Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green
Farming with Dynamite →
“The front window also has to protect me against lamp-burst: The lamp has lower...”
– NOT JUST ANOTHER THOR MOD !! (the Maxablaster!) - CandlePowerForums
William Kurelek - G.I.S. →
More on the artist here.
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“Once everything calmed down, Sano says the cops told him that he was stopped...”
– BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Man on a bike is tackled, then tasered by Portland Police
This is fascinating me right now… →
Before photoshop there was people being awesome.
Inhabitat » Solar Harvesting Textiles Energize... →
“If architect Sheila Kennedy gets her way, textiles will soon be able to take the sun’s energy and turn it into electricity.”
Karateka →
“Karateka is a 1984 computer game by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. Karateka was Mechner’s first hit game, and was designed while he was attending Yale University.”
I have fond memories of this game. I played it green screen style on the Apple IIs in the library. Some kid copied it off nine million times and everyone got a copy. First game I ever felt the urge...
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
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Funtimehappygardenexplosion: Guerilla Gardening:... →
They’re cheap and easy to make. And if you do it right, they are completely self automated and great for the environment. They will be a sight for sore eyes and they will make everyone happy. Especially the butterflies.
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Aptera →
Five years ago, Aptera’s founder Steve Fambro endeavored to design and build a passenger vehicle that was safe, comfortable, and more fuel-efficient than anything ever produced. This aspiration, combined with his background in engineering, led him to an intensive study of aerodynamics, and composite aircraft construction.
“Most of them glanced at the situation, calculated what had happened, then looked...”
– A story of losing, leaving and buying it all back: Zero Day
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“Skins and themes for the most popular applications, all done in the inimitable...”
– Game, Set, Match / GSM suite
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“Samson could theoretically destroy the building. Like a glacier its powerful...”
– ZWIRNER & WIRTH | Chris Burden
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Pruned is the Most Interesting Thing →
Pruned claims to be about “landscape architecture and related fields” but really it’s very well written posts about the most interesting stuff in the world. It’s by far my favorite blog. No matter what you’re into you’ll find Pruned to be fascinating.
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“Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer...”
– Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering - Joel on Software
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“The Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP) proposes an open web platform to...”
– Sustainable Everyday Project » About us
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“The background story is based on this ZXC device which has something to do with...”
– Design By Humans T-shirts - New T-shirt designs everyday - The Zxc Incident by j3concepts
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“The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation...”
– A Low Impact Woodland Home
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BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW →
Comparisons to Boards of Canada are unavoidable, but BMSR is it’s own beast, with more traditional song structures and instrumentation things a-going on.
The Holy Mountain
Last night Cat and I watched The Holy Mountain.
It is, to say the least, a strange film.
But is it a good film? In situations like this it’s pretty hard to say. At first I was laughing at it, thinking it was trying way too hard and was not nearly as smart as it thought it was. As the film progressed it seemed to me it actually had something to say and ends up with a pretty hopeful...
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Tab Turnmire on the Behance Network →
I have been known to make pretend things.
“The canons of page construction are a set of principles in the field of book...”
– Canons of page construction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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– Block Writing with Unicode Block Font Elements
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“The good news is that elves like sex. “The union of love is indeed to them...”
– What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex
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Sparrow Scratchbuilt Aviation →
Some people build models.
Other people BUILD models.
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“Constant Nieuwenhuys was a painter, innovator of Unitary Urbanism, and artistic...”
– Game, Set, Match / New Babylon
NOTCOT.ORG →
NOTCOT is a visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements. NOTCOT’s two sites have become the daily sources of inspiration for creatives everywhere, fighting the good fight against “creative block” since 2005 with visually stunning imagery, the latest in international trends, and a passion for all things well designed.
“The guards gave you tools?” He shook his head. “Then — how do you dig?” I was...”
– Guantanamo— Defiant Gardens