Author Archives: lara

Bonus Easter Sunday Edition For no par­tic­u­lar rea­son in no par­tic­u­lar order: Extreme cute­ness. Little lost robot. Reported: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/11/adorable-robots-get-where-theyre-going-with-human-help/ Creator’s site: http://www.tweenbots.com/ Micheal Velliquette — cut paper art. Shiny. http://www.velliquette.com/Site/SlideShow_assets/SlideShow.html?lang=en For the 7 year old in all of us. Do want. http://www.cookiemag.com/homefront/decor/2008/11/london_greenhouse?slide=2#showSlide Why I could­n’t go to the gym on Wednesday. They took my lit­tle iPod shuf­fle. http://sleepmachine.tumblr.com/post/95168434/buzzp-via-cache-gawker-com more tomorrow,

Yet anoth­er stu­pid car design that posits groovy graph­ics as the solu­tion to — well I don’t know exact­ly what. Usually these things are pitched at girls/women. Cars as acces­so­ry. (The pug thing is just cute.) http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/this_just_inbox_moy_concept_car_by_elvis_tomljenovic_pugzee_by_dave_cortes_13151.asp Hugh McLeod has anoth­er print com­ing out. Don’t like his style enough to fork out for one but his irony … 

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Good Morning All, Design inno­va­tion meets skin art. http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/stunning_tattoo_gun_13135.asp Big pic­ture stuns again with pho­tos of the L’Aquila earth­quake. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/the_laquila_earthquake.html Best case mod I’ve seen in a while. The con­struc­tion qual­i­ty is insane­ly great. (The orig­i­nal Russian site is down.) http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/08/the-ultimate-wall-e-case-mod/ For those of you fol­low­ing the Kindle text-to-speech issue, there is cov­er­age of yes­ter­day’s protests of the Authors’ … 

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Slow morn­ing. Easter bun­ny cute­ness. Not for the bam­bi lovers in the crowd. Be sure to click on all the views! http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22149195 I’m a total whore for let­ter­press. Two DIY press designs reviewed. Verdict — well not real­ly. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/07/how-to-build-your-ow.html Just added this blog to the rota­tion. We’ll see what it brings. (If noth­ing else I like the … 

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For play. Using a “rub­ber band” inter­face to explore words and their con­nec­tions: http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ Reporting on Reading Rights and the National Federations of the Blind’s protest of Amazon’s cav­ing to the Author’s Guild over the text-to-speech fea­ture of the kin­dle. Show some love. Write a let­ter. http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/reading-rights-coali.html Best round up of the report­ing on the Google books … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 7)”