Design and Artifacts

From Tokyo, a round up of Good Design 2009 win­ners. The auto­mat­ic meat
fresh­ness indi­ca­tor is clever and use­ful. I want a cou­ple of the lamps
list­ed sec­ond. There’s cute, clever, and head scratch­ing fur­ther on.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/08/photos-good-design-2009/

I love tea in the morn­ing. The joy of watch­ing this lit­tle shark float
around in my cup would make it even better.
http://designyoutrust.com/2009/08/30/cool-tea-infuser-%E2%80%9Csharky%E2%80%9D/

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Food

Too bad this did­n’t show up ear­li­er in the sum­mer. Maybe we should
plan to build a piz­za oven next yea r… at Mar­tin and Car­ol’s house.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/08/26/howto-build-an-outdo.html

Taco trucks get some atten­tion from a seri­ous food writer.
http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/08/eating-los-angeles/

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Infra­struc­ture

I don’t know how seri­ous these guys are about the nam­ing conventions
but the aer­i­al pho­tographs of high­ways inter­changes are great
dizzy-making fun.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/05/18/dont-pluck-the-cloverleaf-a-field-guide-to-highway-interchanges-part‑1/

Fire hydrants are tempt­ing tar­gets for painters.
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/08/26/ha-amusingly-defaced-fire-hydrants/

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Cul­ture(?)

Sat­ur­day Morn­ing Break­fast Cere­al takes a look at sci­ence reporting.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623

David W has a go at the RIAA and copy­right mad­ness. The sit­u­a­tion is
so out of hand that the satire is sub­tle. (No, really.)
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/08/30/riaa-wins-dmca-case-now-illegal-to-decompose/

As I have men­tioned before, Hel­lo Kit­ty turns 35 this year. The CNet
Gad­gettes (oh gag) had a lit­tle con­test. Hel­lo Cougar.
http://www.cnet.com/2300–12552_1-10001381–1.html?tag=mncol;txt

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Images

I adore Tom and Jer­ry car­toons. But there is a dis­tinct­ly psychotic
edge that is nev­er far from the sur­face. This  re-rendering of a comic
book cov­er cap­tures it nicely.
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/james-powell-covers-tom-jerry-97.html

Drop dead sexy thighs. On a robot.
http://insomnio.org/post/173169516/robots-for-geeks-photo-by-hunyaga

Three years work in Kingston Jama­cia by  Peter Dean Rickards. The
whole book is avail­able on line as a PDF.  The por­traits define a
nation and the land­scapes define a time in that nation. NSFW — one or
two nudes and lots of guns.
http://afflictedyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/afflictedyard_2003-2007.pdf

End­ing the morn­ing with music by Tom Waits and video typog­ra­phy, no
I’m not kid­ding, by Jack­ie Lay, And a side of Toast.
http://vimeo.com/3046034

Until tomor­row.

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