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Lists of things you might be looking for, such as places where you can find lists of things you might be looking for:

* Ray, 2/04/2006 08:17:34 PM
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Huff and Puff

Strw Bale Maine (sic)
Kinda Ronchamps-looking straw-bale house. Windows on corners: nice. Split gable, too.

* Ray, 2/04/2006 02:44:24 PM
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Laptop napping

Samsonite Laptop Case/Pillow (Gizmodo)
Memoryfoam makes cushion for you and machine. Ahhh.

* Ray, 2/04/2006 12:14:25 PM
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Les pochoirs

DUSTER 132 hits Paris streets with bad-ass detailed stencils of robots, cyborgs and mecha.

via gridskipper

* Ray, 2/04/2006 12:09:04 PM
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Stories

Talk About Renting a Hole in the Wall - New York Times
Architecture students stuff a bed in the wall and almost rent it on craigslist. Remarkable anecdotes ensue. This quote has some resonance:

"I think I would have done it," he said. "Because it's, like, a good story to tell your kids."

...so life in the first world can lead one to live mean for the sake of a good story. Got it.

via Archinect

* Ray, 2/04/2006 02:03:03 AM
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Invest now

Tech Digest: Scientists create the bionic ear
For every pair of white earbuds today there will be at least one order of bionic ears tomorrow. Buy stock now. Put your kids through college. How's that lawsuit working out, anyway?

via Gizmodo

* Ray, 2/04/2006 01:51:14 AM
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Hackomatic

Map Builder::Build Your Own Google or Yahoo Maps. Share and Explore.
Repurpose online maps as you see fit, and don't bother with any of that waste-o-time Learnin.

via momb

* Ray, 2/04/2006 01:46:58 AM
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Comic book tech

LAPD Pursues High-Tech End to High-Speed Chases - Los Angeles Times
GPS darts to stick to fleeing cars. Y'know, like Batman, Spiderman... Next week: GPS dart detectors.

via Boing Boing

* Ray, 2/04/2006 01:32:00 AM
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Dirt Maps

BLDGBLOG: Soil Maps of Asia
I swear, Geoff is one resourceful dude. Are you all reading BLDGBLOG yet? So much visual candy.

* Ray, 2/04/2006 01:14:07 AM
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photographic things

thingsmagazine has a great set of links on photography.

Impressive photographs by Richard Mosse. We especially like the series 'Phenomena' and Gulf. There is also stunning imagery from post-earthquake Iran and post-war Bosnia. The site design is unashamedly inspired by Slower.net (which continues to stun), and there are also links to a few other photo/culture sites, some of which we may have noted before: Trendbeheer, Happy Famous Artists ('bad art for bad people'), 3rd Effect, re-title, Photodebut, Seesaw Magazine, which has a set of Edward Burtynsky's China photographs, and the excellent Polar Inertia.

Check the series on Strip Coal Mining in Eastern Kentucky. The new industrialisation is all around us, on a mammoth scale, yet it seems that only fine art photographers are taking any notice. The rest of us just sleepwalk while our worlds are created in the vast yet unseen backrooms and workshops on the other side of the world, strange landscapes that will ultimately, inevitably, impact upon us all.

* Ray, 2/04/2006 01:10:56 AM
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Gives me an idea

OOOMS product design: USB Sticks
At first I didn't think much of these thumbdrives (pieces of tree branches with USB tip), but then I saw a picture of one plugged into a laptop. Very funny, as if you jammed a twig into your machine. So I thought, what if you have a series of thumbdrives that looked like a screwdriver, a pen, silverware...

via Engadget

* Ray, 2/03/2006 02:35:56 PM
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Exoparasitoid is a real word

The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future
Read how Ampulex compressa (an exoparasitoid) makes zombies out of roaches, then lays eggs in them. Supercreepycool. From Parasite Rex.

via Boing Boing

* Ray, 2/03/2006 08:33:48 AM
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G-SMS

New from Google: Send a Text Message (SMS) to any phone, any carrier.

via Lifehacker

* Ray, 2/03/2006 12:13:51 AM
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Wanton real estate

International Real Estate - Islands for Sale Worldwide via Boing Boing

Living Ever Larger: Estates in the Sky via Archinect/a>

* Ray, 2/03/2006 12:07:26 AM
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Herman Miller redux

RE. Design News: Aeron Chaise
by Sietze Kalkwijk, who has a remarkably opaque and cool site with only Lorem ipsum text.

* Ray, 2/02/2006 11:05:16 PM
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Bugs life

Napgrass. Wow. (Gizmodo)
Foamy giant-scale hot pink "grass" to lie down in.

* Ray, 2/02/2006 02:08:30 PM
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That OLED keyboard

Optimus mini three keyboard. Pre-orders now accepted ($100). Full-size keyboard on its way, allegedly. Oooh.

via Slashdot

* Ray, 2/02/2006 01:55:22 PM
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Just leave elephants be

The Chronicle: 2/3/2006: The Moral Status of Animals

In 55 BC, the Roman leader Pompey staged a combat between humans and elephants. Surrounded in the arena, the animals perceived that they had no hope of escape. According to Pliny, they then 'entreated the crowd, trying to win its compassion with indescribable gestures, bewailing their plight with a sort of lamentation.' The audience, moved to pity and anger by their plight, rose to curse Pompey -- feeling, wrote Cicero, that the elephants had a relation of commonality (societas) with the human race.

via 3quarksdaily

* Ray, 2/02/2006 01:45:01 PM
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Snow Show 3

Slopeside at the Olympics, Designing With Frozen Fingers - New York Times
I feel like this show gets better every year.

via Archinect

* Ray, 2/02/2006 10:17:35 AM
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Wise

Second Life is offering a fellowship to encourage young artists to mess around in the game. Linden Lab Fellowship (pdf).
This is smart. Real smart.

via Boing Boing

* Ray, 2/02/2006 10:12:33 AM
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Just a matter of time

NextEngine, 3d desktop scanning, just under $2,500. Here comes the future, hold on tight.

via Future Feeder

* Ray, 2/02/2006 09:42:40 AM
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Rulers

Some printable paper rulers
Therein, a disturbing observation:

'I discovered that many of my students do not really understand linear measurement. I found this out when I gave them rulers without numbers. Some of them were completely at sea. Previously they just read the numbers off the ruler with no concept that they are measuring a given distance. It turned out that few of the students (top academic classes) [could] do the measurements, they didn't know where to start, they didn't know that the ruler was metric, they didn't know that each centimeter had 10 divisions!!! Give them a broken ruler (one without a zero): boy! does that ever demonstrate weaknesses in understanding. This year I am going to START with the numberless rulers.' [a reader]

* Ray, 2/01/2006 02:38:03 PM
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Tiny information

Poll: What the World Thinks of America
In just about every category, Jordan comes in as the most anti-American country, except for the question, "Generally speaking, would you say you tended to like or dislike American made clothing?" Korea came in lowest at -55%. Well, that's because they're 5 to 10 years ahead of us in fashion.

Not many surprises in this poll, except that the text is painfully small, obscuring the information. That was surprising.

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* Ray, 1/31/2006 10:32:48 AM
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Tentacular

MoCo Loco: More on-site-00
I like the lights integrated into tube ends. Very manga.

* Ray, 1/31/2006 09:56:11 AM
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Writing on the windmill

quietrevolution, a vertical propeller that has LEDs on it, creating a cylindrical video display. Generates 10,000kWh/year or so.

via Future Feeder

Another windmill post, but I fear taking energy out of the jetstream. Seems like pissing in the well.

* Ray, 1/31/2006 09:51:00 AM
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Hard drive death songs (for cutie)

Hard Drive Dying Dance Track Winner:
Since Hitachi released audio snippets to help people identify how their drives were failing, Gizmodo held a competition to remix the sounds into a song. Good times.

* Ray, 1/30/2006 11:57:34 PM
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For the people, by the people

Slashdot | Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers
The IP ranges of Congress (meddling liars) have been blocked from Wikipedia. This seems like a nice symbol of the times, no?

* Ray, 1/30/2006 10:05:08 PM
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Destructoys

Takara's Secret Base Station: USB Desk Toys of Destruction
Beefy-proportioned triggers and buttons that... launch apps and shut down your machine.

* Ray, 1/30/2006 08:57:36 PM
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Utahnyms

The Cream of the Crop, a list of remarkable names Utah folk give their kin.

* Ray, 1/30/2006 05:33:49 PM
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Games for when the power goes out

The Morning News - The 2005 Good Gift Games, by Matthew Baldwin
Naw, I jes kiddin. Board games, like radio, demand and strengthen imagination. Everyone should get back into board games.

via MUG

* Ray, 1/30/2006 10:30:00 AM
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Place your bets

MoMB, the Museum of Modern Betas. A running collection of e-ideas and iStartups with betas on the interwebonet. Some interesting ones, a lot of junk.

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* Ray, 1/29/2006 02:09:51 PM
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Modern retro

crabfu steam toys, mini steam-engine remote-control toys. Tanks, centipedes, crabs, rowboats... Amazing. Similar to, but much better than, the robo-spider at the end of Wild Wild West.

via Boing Boing

* Ray, 1/29/2006 02:04:56 PM
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Deconstructing Delhi

Archinect : News : A Capital Braces for Collapse:

By a High Court ruling in Delhi, the municipality has been ordered to raze all illegal constructions, 'and by the MCD's initial reckoning that is an astounding 70-80% of all buildings in Delhi.'

More links at Archinect, BBC.

* Ray, 1/29/2006 02:01:58 PM
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The annual news

This year's list from Project Censored: Top 10 Censored Stories. Some things you suspected, others you probably had no idea about. Good read.

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* Ray, 1/29/2006 01:21:31 PM
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