And we were all snickering at the parking cops on segways… http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/any-cop-is-robocop-with-an-electric-police-trike/ A gallery of the covers of the journal Advanced Materials. Click to embiggen. Read the issue summaries to discover that you know absolutely nothing. http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/journals/alphabeticIndex/2089/?jURL=http://www.wiley-vch.de:80/vch/journals/2089/cover/index2009.html Sometimes the answer to nasty materials is not to dispose of them but to reuse them. I say it’s more than …
Yearly Archives: 2009
Morning Linkage (May 11)
A silly to start. 69 Love Song Illustrated. Just what it says. All by different artists. They haven’t got the full 69 yet and a the quality varies but this one is happy silly. (Mildly NSFW due to hazy nakedness and furries) http://howfuckingromantic.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/lets-pretend-were-bunny-rabbits/ Douglas Bowman’s departure from his post as head designer for Google has freed …
Morning Linkage (May 8)
The Design Edition Starting with a couple of furniture designs. With a welder and some scrap from out behind the barn we could make up a couple of these lawn chairs. Not sure I want to sit on one. Humor in design is good. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/sitting_on_the_fence_13389.asp And another reported by Core77. Proving that lack of humor in design thinking …
Morning Linkage (May 7)
The arts and crafts edition. Oh, and one toy. Now you never have to be without a train set. http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/new-online-255/blumenau-model-train-set-r8sr-gama-88100–1/product.html?LproductId=16155 Art from books. I don’t always hold the line with the “never destroy a book” crowd. Here are two examples of why. The flickr set of Nicholas Galanin’s What Have We Become . http://www.flickr.com/photos/galanin/sets/72157594357065714/ Thomas Allen’s photographed dioramas …
Morning Linkage (May 6)
Silly children’s book. The drawings are delightful. The text abominable — in a cute sexist way. Don’t bother reading the comments. http://michiedo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-glad-im-boy-im-glad-im-girl.html News: Librarians are worrying about the Google Books settlement. No access to put of print books vs. access controlled by giant corp. Rock and hard place. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/libraries-weigh-in-with-worries-on-googles-book-settlement.ars There was a lot of worry about eBay encouraging …