Beautiful cardboard children’s furniture designs
by Vinay Gupta • March 22, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
Foldschool. Download and build. We’ll be having some of those for the hexayurt project then, eh?
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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On Libertarians
by Vinay Gupta • March 22, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
“Free people create free markets. Free markets do not necessarily create free people.” – Gupta’s Libertarian Observation How hard is this, people? How hard? NOT THAT BLOODY HARD. Somebody who sells themselves into slavery can be acting within a free market context, but is no longer free. Has the market created freedom? No! It has [...]
Read more →Wardrobe Infrastructure
by Vinay Gupta • March 21, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour agreed with Kors. “Developing nations lack the basic wardrobe infrastructure to appreciate a designer scent,” Wintour said. “[Designer John] Galliano is going in a much more sensible direction with his cotton evening gown for Darfur refugees, though he’s having trouble getting the cost below $1,100. It’s a noble effort and a [...]
Read more →SleepBreeze blog launched
by Vinay Gupta • March 20, 2007 • Hexayurt • 0 Comments
SleepBreeze now have a blog. Welcome to the blogosphere, Andy. Dear reader: Andy’s is the Hexayurt Project’s cooling wizard. The Man when it comes to things like heat stroke, cooling people and not whole houses, and a myriad of low energy and space efficient things. The personal coolers he’s working on promise to be a [...]
Read more →Set up OpenID
by Vinay Gupta • March 20, 2007 • Cool Tools, Everything Else • 0 Comments
Using the excellent phpMyID (from http://Siege.org). First thoughts: OpenID is clearly viable. I think it’s a winner. Now, can it be used for Unix log in, and if not, why?
Read more →Poor bastard
by Vinay Gupta • March 20, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
CIA Milan bureau chief on the run from Interpol. Just following orders.
Read more →Must be catch up day: DJ Thor at Sirkus, F**K the 90s, last Saturday night (i.e. a week ago)
by Vinay Gupta • March 18, 2007 • Music • 0 Comments
Tellingly, this is an event I don’t have much in the way of photos or video from. I took like one lame still. And no, you can’t see it. But there is a soundboard recording of the entire thing, which is spectacularly good, and which I’ll hope to be able to share online at some [...]
Read more →These guys rock
by Vinay Gupta • March 18, 2007 • Music • 0 Comments
Honey Trap covering Bodyrokerz “I like the way you move.” Tip from David Bowie, who is blogging about music and telling interesting life stories online.
Read more →Gandhian development models – low energy, high consciousness
by Vinay Gupta • March 18, 2007 • Hexayurt, Science, The Global Picture • 0 Comments
Sustainable Energy Development, a Gandhian Approach gandhian development models.pdf.zip PDF in case that goes down.
Read more →Japan nuclear power safety news: Doh!
by Vinay Gupta • March 18, 2007 • Science • 0 Comments
Uncontrolled fission… again. A Japanese power company admitted on Thursday that it had covered up a 1999 incident in which mishandling of nuclear fuel rods led to an unintended self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction for 15 minutes.
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