Every­one is enti­tled to an opinion:

Gor­geous pic­ture of a crap bike.
http://www.bikeexif.com/confederate-p120-fighter

Crap pic­ture of a gor­geous bike.
http://www.bikeexif.com/krugger-overmile

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On August 26th the Mini Coop­er will be 50 years old. Forbes put up a
nice lit­tle slide show.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/29/bmw-mini-cooper-lifestyle-vehicles-mini-car-50_slide_2.html

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Repur­posed fur­ni­ture (com­po­nents). Does some­one have a bet­ter word
than repur­posed? It’s so made up.

Cold frames from the As-Is depart­ment at IKEA.
http://plantedathome.com/blog/2009/01/28/diy-cold-frames/

Sweet aviary from a bust­ed up wardrobe.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/diy_aviary_from_old_armoire.html

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Some nice black and white art — book plates. Ein­stein’s is at the bottom.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/51484

More nice black and white art — Sty­ro­foam cof­fee cups. No, really.
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/07/30/cheeming-boey-coffee-cup-drawings/

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The IDEA awards for 2009 are out.These three pages give you little
links to all the prod­ucts. As usu­al, the stuff award­ed sil­ver and
bronze is much more inter­est­ing that the stuff giv­en gold medals.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/07/0729_IDEA_awards_gold/
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/07/0729_IDEA_awards_silver/
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/07/0729_IDEA_awards_bronze/

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Print Mag­a­zine gave four design firms a brief to design pack­ag­ing for
legal­ized mar­i­jua­na. The results are droll at best. Here’s a link to
cov­er­age from Fast Com­pa­ny that does a much bet­ter job of reviewing
the results than Print does on it’s very borked website.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/imagine-pot-was-legal-how-would-you-brand-it

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The three lit­tle pigs would­n’t have stood a chance if the big bad wolf
had one of these. A vor­tex canon. Gath­er fun pro­pos­al #37. (Just
kid­ding.) Bonus mak­ing of video included.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/30/diy-vortex-cannon/

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Off to read Freak Angels episode 63. (You’ll need days to catch up but
it’s worth it if you like dark.)
http://www.freakangels.com/?p=102

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