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