People keep posting stuff about this. Maybe it’ll actually be reissued if they keep it up. Probably won’t sell any better this time either… http://www.designverb.com/2007/11/10/heineken-world-bottle-beer-to-bricks/

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http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html Nifty, nifty.

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But here’s the thing: In each of the eight social worlds, the top songs–and the bottom ones–were completely different. For example, the song “Lockdown,” by 52metro, was the No. 1 song in one world, yet finished 40 out of 48 in another. Nor did there seem to be any compelling correlation between merit and success. [...]

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In 2001 the owners of Sunrise Paragliding in Nepal, Rajesh Bomjan and Adam Hill, quite by chance met up with Scott Mason, a falconer from England. Realizing that birds of prey rely on thermals to assist them in gliding long distances, in much the same way as paragliders do, these three men decided to blend [...]

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Seems to me the key to Steampunk is going to be cheap desktop laser cutters. Once these things are cheap enough that a $500 unit can do 0.5mm thick brass, then it becomes possible to laser cut gears meaning that you can fab machines of arbitrary complexity relatively easily. Could be fun.

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