Author Archives: lara

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 8)”

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)”

In case you don’t have a suf­fi­cient­ly rad busi­ness card. Make up a few of these. A must for MEs. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cardapult-the-Business-Card-Catapult/ Too bad these are art prints. I would love to take them down to the local. I’d final­ly be cool­er than the 20 some­things out to show their girls a hot Saturday night. http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/nice-shot-olly-mosss-shoot-the.html A musi­cal inter­lude. A … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 6)”

Heavy on the visu­als today. Touching pho­tos of Mexicans in America who sup­port fam­i­lies at home doing mun­dane jobs dressed as super­heros. http://dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm I will make time to see this mod­el and all the rest dur­ing my spring road trip: http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/Comingin2009.htm I am fas­ci­nat­ed by pho­tographs of decay­ing infra­struc­ture. From Abandoned Britain, Helling Asylum: I chose one of the … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Apr 2)”