Onyx Nesting Tables (1)
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Stack, nestle or spread out your style. These tables are an understated addition to any living room, and they offer the virtues of space-savers and style-icons in one package. Extremely versatile, the onyx nesting tables from West Elm come in chocolate brown or grey to match nearly any home decor. Because of their simple, beveled design, you can stack them to create a bottom-heavy modern shelving unit, save some space by nestling them one inside ...
Lushpad (1)
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File this in the “where the hell have you been all my life” drawer. Lushpad is a unique online buy and sell marketplace for contemporary and mid-century modern furniture and fine art. If you’re looking for that special piece but can’t seem to find it you can post a want ad here. If you are an artist or designer looking for an alternative way to sell your work, congrats, you’ve just hit the jackpot. Beware, ...
HTC S740 (1)
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The simplicity of a normal candybar phone meets the versatility of a full QWERTY keyboard in the HTC S740 ($TBA; September 2008). With Quad-band GSM and 900/2100 MHz HSDPA, the...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
Draganflyer X6 (1)
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Designed for aerial photography and video, the Draganflyer X6 ($TBA) lets you run your recon missions in style. Its anti-vibration camera mount can hold digital cameras, HD video cams, and...Visit Uncrate for the full post.
Mozilla Labs Ubiquity Is A Firefox Killer Application! (7)
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Amos mailed me today telling me about a new Mozilla Labs prototype Ubiquity which he called phenomenal. I was skeptical at first but this could be the killer app for Firefox. Yes that might be hard to believe but this prototype introduces a whole new level of interaction. Natural interaction that is, something that integrates itself perfectly in the work routine. Ubiquity is a Firefox prototype add-on that is similar to Launchy but located in ...
Opinion: Why Google has lost its mojo - and why you should care (Preston Gralla/Computerworld) (8)
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Preston Gralla / Computerworld: Opinion: Why Google has lost its mojo — and why you should care — Computerworld) Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft …
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Marc said:
I'm sorry, are the alternatives better?!
Artist Noriko Ambe (2)
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Japanese artist Noriko Ambe is featured this month in the Mei Guo (The Beau Monde) exhibition at Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai. This includes new entries into the Cutting Book Series, which has been an ongoing project for Ambe. Artists who make pieces, Artists who do books and THEN & NOW are just two of the books which Ambe has aptly modified. Ambe will be showing work in the US though the end of the year. (more…)
Extreme X-Rays: Photographer Nick Veasey Takes You Inside ... Everything (14)
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Veasey is one of the few people who know how hard it is to get a crisp x-ray of a light bulb. For starters, the object has very little mass to absorb the radiation. And because the edges of the bulb curve away from the film, the x-rays get scattered about, causing distortion. So Veasey shot this bulb in a series of 10-second bursts. The succession of blasts builds up the energy necessary to capture ...
Julien Dupont rides the Netherlands (1)
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When we interviewed Roland Sands, he drew the conclusion that motorcycles could be the “next, most logical step into two-wheeled mobility” for the fixed-gear bicycle crowd. If you had any doubt that that could be true, or don’t understand the ways in which motorcycles could be made to appeal to a demographic prepared to eschew conventional transportation wisdom in favor of something smaller, slower and less practical, we offer Julien Dupont and his freestyle trials ...
The Big Lebowski - 10th Anniversary Limited Edition (4)
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By Andrew Liszewski Has it been 10 years already? I know a lot of people really, really like The Big Lebowski, and while I enjoy the film as a whole (performances, writing etc.) I definitely don’t find it as ‘hilarious’ as most seem to. But fan or not, who could possibly resist the awesome bowling ball packaging that Universal Studios has cooked up for the 10th anniversary edition of the film? The lack of Blu-ray ...
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I would love to have the dude's ball too!
Say Goodbye To Summer By Flinging Yourself Across A Lake (1)
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By Jonathan Kimak If you’re looking to have one last summer party and happen to live in Germany and you and your friends want to have a great time trying not to die and/or auditioning for Jackass 3 then Designer/Businessman/Daredevil Jochen Schweizer has created something that’s perfect for you. The AirKick® Water is essentially a water powered catapult for people. The passenger sits in the AirKick and then presses a button when they are ready ...
Cool, Neato!: iHologram iPhone Application (4)
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iHologram for the iPhone is an application made by David O'Reilly that creates the illusion of a 3-D cat walking around in your phone. iHologram combines anamorphosis and the iPhone's gyroscopes to achieve this awesome visual magic trick. Anamorphosis is a way to draw things distorted so, while watched at a certain angle, they pop out of the 2D surface as if they were real. You have to watch the screen at 35 to 45 ...
Screamer: Portable Internet Radio Streamer (15)
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Filed under: Audio, Internet, Windows, Freeware While I know it's no big deal to dump a couple of gigs of music onto my 8GB flash drive, sometimes it's nice to fire up some streaming radio for a change of pace.Screamer is available both as an installable application and as a portable executable. Go with the portable version, and you'll be able to take your presets with you wherever you can plug in your USB flash ...
The Dillon M134 - the second coming of the Gatling Gun (2)
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Just over a 140 years ago, Richard Gatling’s famous multiple barrel invention became the scourge of the battlefield with its fearsome firepower and was used by colonising European powers to decimate the warriors of the non-industrialized nations they sought to conquer. Nowadays, the electrically-powered Dillon Aero M134D Minigun is taking the concept to new heights, using six barrels to fire up to 4,000 7.62 MM bullets per minute. As the modular M134D system can be ...
Mickey Mouse bridges the culture war when teaching evolution to evangelical students (18)
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David Campbell managed to slip evolution into the high-school science curriculum in the conservative Florida town where he teaches -- by using images of Mickey Mouse through the years to illustrate the principle: On the projector, Campbell placed slides of the cartoon icon: one at his skinny genesis in 1928, one from his 1940 turn as the impish "Sorcerer's Apprentice," and one of the rounded, ingratiating charmer of Mouse Club fame. "How," he asked his ...
Kids can't "go out and play" anymore (73)
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This LA Times story (by Rosa Brooks) about the erosion of free, unstructured outdoor play and movement for kids really hits the nail on the head: little kids are just not allowed to "go outside and play" and we treat big kids who do as potential threats to be moved along as quickly as possible: But today, for most middle-class American children, "going out to play" has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter ...
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
LAT article articulates how i feel about kids and outdoor physical activity. Also, what's a typewriter?
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
If I do get married and have kids, they will definitely be going outside to play, and frankly, I plan on joining them!
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seanness said:
I've been noticing this for years. Parents coddle way too much here in the US. Exploration and independence was a big part of my childhood. I remember walking 7 miles to my grandmothers house when I was 10 (with my brother), along a busy road (we thought it was at the time) and the only harm was that we learned it was better to ride our bikes there. Parents...let your kids out of the backyard!
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SusanVillasLewis said:
Wow. And here I have been jealous of the "structured" activities that kids get to do these days. We didn't have those when I was a kid. I had to make up my own fun playing in the yard with my siblings. Guess I did have it better not getting to do soccer or karate or dance.
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isol8d said:
yeah, I don't let my kids wander outside yet.
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Alex said:
I loved my countless hours outside. Stinks to be a kid now, I guess.
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William said:
From the essay, "They braved ... the rusty nails just waiting to be stepped on ..."I've stepped on a rusty nail. It's not fun. I was between 2 and 5, and stepped on the nail in my dad's study upstairs at the Providence Forge Presbyterian Church -- which is not exactly like the junkyard in /Stand By Me/.I also fell out of a "car bed" and cracked my head on the runners for the Volvo's front seat. Ironically, my parents had traded the VW Beetle for the Volvo because the Volvo was safer. Last I checked, there was no permanent damage from either injury.
45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos (7)
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Smashing Magazine has a collection of charming pictures showing how a motion blur effect can add a sense of speed to photographs. Link -via the Presurfer
Asus Eee PC 1000 [Hardware] (1)
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The new Asus Eee PC model is here and the 1000 is looking better than ever thanks to a redesigned keyboard, chassis-filling screen and new Atom processor. Is the new model really a step forward for the line though, or an incremental disappointment at best?
