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You gonna eat that?

Freecycle, a hippie-ish community of people giving stuff away when they don't need it anymore. (Obviously, you can get stuff, too.)

* Ray, 3/05/2005 12:35:14 AM
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Chicken Vacuum

Altogether disturbing and mesmerizing: Bright Coop, Inc.'s E-Z Catch Harvester. Something like a street-cleaning sweeper. See the video.

* Ray, 3/05/2005 12:30:13 AM
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From Canada, with Love

Former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy writes a frank letter to Condi Rice:

The Winnipeg Free Press - View from the West

Dear Condi, I'm glad you've decided to get over your fit of pique and venture north to visit your closest neighbour. It's a chance to learn a thing or two. Maybe more.

I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

But, gosh, we folks above the 49th parallel are somewhat cautious types who can't quite see laying down billions of dollars in a three-dud poker game.

As our erstwhile Prairie-born and bred (and therefore prudent) finance minister pointed out in presenting his recent budget, we've had eight years of balanced or surplus financial accounts. If we're going to spend money, Mr. Goodale added, it will be on day-care and health programs, and even on more foreign aid and improved defence.

Sure, that doesn't match the gargantuan, multi-billion-dollar deficits that your government blithely runs up fighting a "liberation war" in Iraq, laying out more than half of all weapons expenditures in the world, and giving massive tax breaks to the top one per cent of your population while cutting food programs for poor children.

Just chalk that up to a different sense of priorities about what a national government's role should be when there isn't a prevailing mood of manifest destiny.

continues...

* Ray, 3/04/2005 02:45:00 PM
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High Line West Coast

In case you're casting around for an ideas competition to enter, look at the San Francisco Prize. Redesign an elevated freeway into a landscaped community centerpiece. $40,000 prize money total, meant to build interest but no promise of actually being realized. $100 entry fee.

SF Chronicle article

* Ray, 3/04/2005 10:39:16 AM
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Words for things that need words

OHNS: A Dictionary of Old Hobo Slang -by Stephen P. Alpert
Very long lexicon from the railyard. Fascinating. Makes me want to listen to Tom Waits.

via BoingBoing

* Ray, 3/04/2005 09:00:38 AM
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Meta-Image

Montage-a-google grabs images from a Google image search and tiles them together into a pleasing grid. Uncanny how intentional it ends up looking.

via Lifehacker

* Ray, 3/03/2005 08:24:00 PM
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Read Books You

National Lampoon's Gallery of Children's Literature

In REAL news, did you hear about this?

"It's Just a Plant" by Ricardo Cortes

Last month, Cortes published his children's book, It’s Just a Plant, 48 cannabis-laden pages that he hoped would be taken as a welcome dose of "reality-based education." The former high school D.A.R.E. officer and Brooklyn-based T-shirt and skateboard designer says the book is intended for "six- to 12-year-olds." It still encourages kids to say "No," but stops short of condemning responsible adult use.

* Ray, 3/03/2005 08:20:40 PM
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Man-made Sunspots

Floatables, jellyfish-like jammers that create wave-free private space wherever they may be: no phone calls, emails, surveillance... it's just a concept (with plenty of irritating talk of "blurring" and "absence"), but an interesting piece of cyberpunk. Ah, "cyberpunk," there's a word you don't see much anymore.

via nearnearfuture

* Ray, 3/03/2005 08:15:24 PM
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iDJ

accessTunes streams your iTunes over the web for all to hear. $15 shareware, no word on whether Apple will try to stop it or not. Requires OS X.3+ as well as punching holes in your firewall. Lifehacker has some commentary on it. See, now this sounds like a sensible shared music solution for music lovers. What are music collectors if they can't share what they've collected?

Let's see, iTunes over the web, portable wireless web, why would you need to carry around a hard drive? Maybe Apple won't approve after all.

* Ray, 3/03/2005 08:10:00 PM
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nearnearfurniture

Multiple items from nearnearfuture on interactive furniture:

Design for Increased Energy Awareness (theme: objects that shame you into using less energy)
The Table That Senses Your Mood (senses bad moods by the way you throw your keys down, alerts the rest of the family to lay low)
Furniture for Public Space (sounds like a long waterbed-like nausea machine)

* Ray, 3/02/2005 06:08:21 PM
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Do you hear that?

I will take this opportunity to encourage you all to wear earplugs when attending live concerts. Try these:

ER-20 from Etymotic Research, the musician's choice. Takes all frequencies down 20dB.

Now, what to do about that persistent ringing in my ears from all those shows at Toad's Place.

* Ray, 3/02/2005 06:04:29 PM
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AutoDIY

Designers Toolbox, a free collection of tools and eps templates for all your web and print needs. Envelopes, CD labels, lorem ipsum text generators and more. Handy reference.

via Lifehacker

* Ray, 3/02/2005 06:01:37 PM
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Pretty, Funny Dub

Saw two things today that play with soundtracks. First (via k10k) Giant Steps by Michal Levy, an animation that interprets that tune by Coltrane. Second (via BoingBoing) TPS, the Superfriends set to the audio track of Office Space.

* Ray, 3/02/2005 02:50:52 PM
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Roots

Space Invadin' Bamboo Furniture

Chairs made from the roots of old bamboo. Gross and lovely at the same time.

Marcelo Villegas

via core77

* Ray, 3/01/2005 12:16:32 PM
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The future of low-res

Sneaky game makers enable play at work
New Korean game system shrinks games to look like taskbar icons. Aimed at office workers in the their 20's and 30's.

* Ray, 2/28/2005 03:56:00 PM
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Shiny

Stephen Holl's water filtration plant outside New Haven, hitherto a mystery on the archinect boards. No one's supposed to say where it is exactly because the bad guys might come and blow it up or poison it or something... Never mind that they might see the big shiny thing on the side of the highway.

The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement

via nearnearfuture

* Ray, 2/28/2005 03:48:46 PM
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A maze

Do you love mazes like me? Go quick to Singapore March 12&13 for the opening of Labrador Park, underground. A network of tunnels originally dug by the British. I don't know what you do once you get down in there, but it sounds cool.

* Ray, 2/28/2005 03:32:36 PM
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More zipperheads

Morbid Tendencies: Bunny Of The Month Club

For $39 a month you can have twisted "remixed" stuffed animals (mostly bunnies) delivered to your home to "brighten your life." If I had the medical zipperhead I'd want to have "Headflop" to make a matching set. Another good one is "Other animal wearing a bunny suit." Not disturbing, just funny.

via BoingBoing

* Ray, 2/27/2005 06:22:45 PM
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Mortgages for architects?

Just read on Lifehacker about the ACORN Housing Corporation. They help people with sub-$75,000 income buy homes.

* Ray, 2/27/2005 01:21:37 PM
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Change your life

For maybe the first time ever, a job search that plots listings on a MAP too: WorkZoo. Multiple searches across different job databases, like indeed, with the added feature of a clickable map showing hotspots around the country with the same search terms. Now you can relocate yourself with a little bit more confidence. If you want to relocate yourself.

* Ray, 2/27/2005 01:05:20 PM
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Retro and Neoretro

Seventies Design has many, many images from the 70s. It is very colorful and exuberant.

Extraordinary Ordinary Guy in Japan has something even better. He gives a practical example of how fashion comes into being in Japan. hee hee

via core77

* Ray, 2/27/2005 01:02:00 PM
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