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    Weapons grade cheese

    by  • May 20, 2009 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    General Electric’s smart grid homepage. I’m generally moderately well disposed to smart grids, but couldn’t they have put on some reindeer tracks and a little sleigh in the sky or something just to really get the point across? Pleeze?

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    Bruce Sterling’s 2009 state of the world

    by  • January 5, 2009 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    I’m a bohemian type, so I could scarcely be bothered to do anything “financially sound” in my entire adult life. Last year was the first year when I’ve felt genuinely sorry for responsible, well-to-do people. Suddenly they’ve got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up. Bruce Sterling [...]

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    Nice repurposing

    by  • September 29, 2008 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    Hot tub built into a dumpster via BB. What I particularly like about this is the practicality of it. Yes, it could use some insulation, but actually the idea of a hot tub you can roll around the place, transport, deploy where needed… nice. Also plenty deep which is unusual for hot tubs. Somebody should [...]

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