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blockquoteShared by Duane br so, NOT picking up the dog poo might be better for the urban environment?/blockquote pDesigner a href="http://andrearoman.4ormat.com/"Andrea Roman/a partnered with VagoLab, Manuel Rimada amp; Gilberto González on a href="http://andrearoman.4ormat.com/illogical"a new concept in dog food/a./ppimg title="dog-food-seeds" src="http://dog-milk.com/images/2011/09/dog-food-seeds.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="492"/ppWhat if your dog’s waste could literally end up smelling like flowers? What if it could help the environment? They came up with the idea food create dog food that contains seeds so that when your dog goes to the bathroom on grass or soil, it plants seeds that grow into flowers. strongWhat do you think of this idea? /strong/ppThis project was published in a href="http://www.illogicalquestions.com/comentar.php?post=323"illogicalquestions.com/a./phrbShare This:/b a title="Tweet This" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Pushing%20Up%20Daisies%20with%20Dog%20Poo%20on%20@dog_milk:%20http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/amp;title=Pushing%20Up%20Daisies%20with%20Dog%20Poo" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Don't forget that you can follow Dog Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/dog_milk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/dogmilk"Facebook/a.hr small© 2011 a href="http://dog-milk.com"Dog Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://dog-milk.com/category/dining/" title="View all posts in Dining" rel="category tag"Dining/a, a href="http://dog-milk.com/category/green/" title="View all posts in Green" rel="category tag"Green/a | a href="http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/"Permalink/a | a href="http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/#comments"No comments/a/smallpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/4t82m7t07ntl0vjqqigqd4qnp0/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fdog-milk.com%2Fpushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dog-milk/~4/5fVYQGPltuM" height="1" width="1" so, NOT picking up the dog poo might be better for the urban environment?

pimg src="http://www.howtogeek.com/geekers/up/sshot4dfa1b693a0c4.jpg"If a digital picture frame seems too dull this interesting DIY frame actively sniffs Wi-Fi traffic and displays the pictures it finds. /p pOver at the Free Geek Vancouver blog Autuin shares a fascinating build. He essentially converted an old laptop into a digital picture frame but with a huge twist: it sniffs the Wi-Fi around it and supplies the photos for the frame by lifting them from the airwaves. He writes: /p blockquotepThe project: to make a digital picture frame to snatch pictures from a public wi-fi connection. Many coffee shops in Vancouver feature both local art and wi-fi, so why not combine the two? Imagine toting your laptop down for a latte, plugging in, and discovering that your Facebook pictures are on display on the wall. That’s what this picture frame does./p pObviously this project a tremendous violation of privacy, which is kind of the point. Using a coffee shop wireless connection is a huge risk, unless you take care to use some kind of extra encryption; one project called a href="http://codebutler.com/firesheep"Firesheep/a recently made the news for allowing tremendously simplistic theft of Facebook sessions, among other things. If you’re logging into a website that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption, and most don’t, you’re giving your credentials away. This is a nice visual demonstration of that./p/blockquote pCheck out the link below to see his build guide. /p pa href="http://freegeekvancouver.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-hack-wiretap-picture-frame.html"Another Hack: Wiretap Picture Frame/a [Free Geek Vancouver via a href="http://freegeekvancouver.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-hack-wiretap-picture-frame.html"BoingBoing/a]/p table border="0" width="650px"tbodytrtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/66033/how-to-recover-after-your-email-password-is-compromised/"img src="http://http.cdnlayer.com/howtogeek/thumbcache/190/115/4b3c56b6a76031e0a9f2d320250e79fc/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/passwordbreach.jpg"/a/tdtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/65915/how-to-clean-your-filthy-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher-without-ruining-it/"img src="http://http.cdnlayer.com/howtogeek/thumbcache/190/115/1a56b66ab84a7c967219de7387bed147/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/sshot-386.png"/a/tdtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/65493/learn-how-to-make-hdr-images-in-photoshop-or-gimp-with-a-simple-trick/"img src="http://http.cdnlayer.com/howtogeek/thumbcache/190/115/33fab9f8d3e6c7be2f1f81d6dac72875/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/sshot-373.png"/a/td/trtrtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/66033/how-to-recover-after-your-email-password-is-compromised/"How To Recover After Your Email Password Is Compromised/a/tdtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/65915/how-to-clean-your-filthy-keyboard-in-the-dishwasher-without-ruining-it/"How to Clean Your Filthy Keyboard in the Dishwasher (Without Ruining it)/a/tdtd width="33%"a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/65493/learn-how-to-make-hdr-images-in-photoshop-or-gimp-with-a-simple-trick/"Learn How to Make HDR Images in Photoshop or GIMP With a Simple Trick/a/td/tr/tbody/tablepiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/8lc5bjotu91e2eie13vej7j0ks/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtogeek.com%2Fnews%2Fwi-fi-sniffing-picture-frame-snatches-pictures-from-nearby-traffic%2F5294%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pdiv a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?a=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?i=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?a=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?i=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?a=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?a=tCmDfjGLYPo:NQvVhkW9WxQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/HowToGeek?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HowToGeek/~4/tCmDfjGLYPo" height="1" width="1"

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blockquoteShared by Duane br because we've all been there./blockquote pAs you may have noticed, a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-Now-with-TDWTF-Buttons!.aspx"I/a a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-Salmiak-Attack.aspx"am/a a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-Surprise!.aspx"a/a a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-The-Cookout.aspx"big/a a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Souvenir-Potpourri-Meal-Ready-to-Eat.aspx"fan/a of souvenirs, trinkets, and tchotchkes. And I know I'm not alone. Whenever I go to a conference, at least half of my fellow attendees join me in the pursuit for as much free stuff as possible./p pOf course, it doesn't matter that I already have enough logoed pens and pads to write the entire contents of Wikipedia, twice over. Or that I have enough tee-shirts to wear a new one every day for the rest of my life (and that's assuming I live to be a hundred and fifty). No, this epic quest for swag is about something different. Something grander... and perhaps, even primal./p pWhile swag and raffles may be free, you do have to give up something in return: a business card. This de-facto convention currency is a must-have if you want any serious loot. And there-in presents the problem. Not everyone has business cards./p pFortunately, I've got a solution to this problem. Well... actually, my ememployer/em does, but I'm pretty sure that I provided some of the inspiration for the idea./p blockquote pimg alt="" src="http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/201104/jitcards.jpg"/p /blockquote pThat's right, imeta/i-swag! a href="http://inedo.com/"Inedo/a has been giving these out for a little while now, and I've heard some pretty good feedback at the conferences I've attended. Well, except from the vendors who ended up with fishbowls full of them./p blockquote pimg alt="" src="http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/201104/jitcards-3.png"/p /blockquote pThey're perfect for scoring swag at conferences, entering random fishbowl drawings, and even scoring some pity points from the opposite sex. If you'd like your own iJust-In-Time Business Cards/i, you can get them for free: a href="http://inedo.com/jit-bizcards"http://inedo.com/jit-bizcards/a./ppiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/iboioueglnmiqal0k0nsmcvarc/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fthedailywtf.com%2FArticles%2FJustInTime-Business-Cards.aspx" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pdiv a href="http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/~ff/TheDailyWtf?a=-gerCEtMQMA:zoRFXwT_jXk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/TheDailyWtf?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheDailyWtf/~4/-gerCEtMQMA" height="1" width="1" because we've all been there.

blockquoteShared by Duane br Archived internet archivists./blockquote p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589410/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army1.jpg" border="0"/abr Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589410/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p pIn my scan of new Richmond District photos on Flickr last week, I came across some strange ones of statues sitting in the pews of a a href="http://archive.org"Internet Archive/a sanctuary. The IA moved their headquarters into the church at Clement and Funston in early 2010./p pThe photographer, a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/"Evan Carroll/a, was attending a conference at the IA recently when he took the pics. I asked him what those figures in the pews were and he replied:/p piBrewster Kahle, the director [of the Internet Archive], explained that it was his idea to create Terracotta Archivists after he saw the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army"Terracotta Army/a [in China]. If you work for the IA for 3 years they have a statue made in your resemblance and add it to the collection. I only photographed a few, but I remember somewhere around 30 in the building./i/p pForever immortalized in terra cotta! Definitely a little odd but I suppose it’s better than getting a gold watch or a gumball machine (which I got for hitting 5 years at my last company). Creepy or cool?/p pSarah B./p p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589960/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army2.jpg" border="0"/abr Terra cotta figures sit in the back row of the sanctuary. Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589960/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589752/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army3.jpg" border="0"/abr Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589752/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p div style="text-align:right;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"a href="http://richmondsfblog.com/2011/03/03/army-of-terracotta-archivists-growing-at-the-internet-archive/?pfstyle=wp" style="text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:#000000"img src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif" alt="PrintFriendly"/a/divpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/9r1c1p2m71rth2bvlmkak1v4bg/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Frichmondsfblog.com%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Farmy-of-terracotta-archivists-growing-at-the-internet-archive%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/L04yirDL6BM" height="1" width="1" Archived internet archivists.

blockquoteShared by Duane br bike porn/blockquote pIn their continuing series of “how-to� nights, the a href="http://www.bazaarcafe.com/"Bazaar Cafe/a brings us “How To Build a Bike From Scratch� next Wednesday night. /p pIf you’re been thinking about building a bike, or even ordering a custom one, here’s your chance to learn all the finer points of quality bike construction. /p pThe session will be led by Peter Verdone, a super talented designer of bicycles and skateboards who constructs his bike frames from raw materials. He’ll give an overview of the different ways of building bikes, design and fitting concepts, the tools required, how to draw a bike plan, component selection, and much more. /p pCheck out the bike part porn below from Verdone’s Flickr stream. img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" /p pThe free class takes place on Wednesday, March 9 from 7pm until 9pm at the Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California Street near 22nd Avenue. /p pSarah B./p p/pcenteriframe src="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/embediframe?src=http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v%3D71649amp;width=650amp;height=488amp;flashVars=offsite%3Dtrue%26lang%3Den-us%26page_show_url%3D%252Fphotos%252Fpvdwiki%252Fsets%252F72157623572333606%252Fshow%252F%26page_show_back_url%3D%252Fphotos%252Fpvdwiki%252Fsets%252F72157623572333606%252F%26set_id%3D72157623572333606%26jump_to%3D" width="650" height="488"/iframe/centerp/p div style="text-align:right;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"a href="http://richmondsfblog.com/2011/03/04/how-to-build-a-bike-from-scratch-at-the-bazaar-cafe-march-9/?pfstyle=wp" style="text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:#000000"img src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif" alt="PrintFriendly"/a/divpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/9r1c1p2m71rth2bvlmkak1v4bg/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Frichmondsfblog.com%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2Fhow-to-build-a-bike-from-scratch-at-the-bazaar-cafe-march-9%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/DJ1nhPihUwU" height="1" width="1" bike porn

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blockquoteShared by Duane br creepy./blockquote piframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D7Oew8O9le0?rel=0" frameborder="0"/iframe/p pKayabuki, a Japanese restaurant in a city about 100km north of Tokyo, employs two monkeys wearing schoolgirl clothes, life-like wigs and creepy masks that serve as waiters. In 2010, a href="http://www.budgettrouble.com/"Budget Trouble/a travel blogger Anna Ikeda a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Oew8O9le0"recorded a cellphone video/a showing a monkey waiter delivering hot towels to customers, and a href="http://www.budgettrouble.com/2010/03/kayabuki-in-utsunomiya-where-waiters.html"according to Ikeda/a they are much more attentive than their human coworkers:/p blockquotepThe food is OK, but just barely this side of OK. The service is non-existent. No wonder then that when a British TV crew visited Kayabuki some time ago, some customers said that the monkeys were actually better waiters. At least they brought you things, which cannot be said about the human staff./p/blockquote pa href="http://www.budgettrouble.com/2010/03/kayabuki-in-utsunomiya-where-waiters.html"img src="http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/creepy-monkey.jpg" alt="Masked monkey waiter" title="Masked monkey waiter" width="500" height="663"/a/p pvia a href="http://www.budgettrouble.com/2010/03/kayabuki-in-utsunomiya-where-waiters.html"Budget Trouble/a | a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/sayomg/creepy-monkey-with-mask-tah"BuzzFeed/a/p pphoto via a href="http://www.budgettrouble.com/2010/03/kayabuki-in-utsunomiya-where-waiters.html"Budget Trouble/a /pdiv style="float:left;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:0px;height:20px;margin-bottom:5px"a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flaughingsquid.com%2Fjapanese-restaurant-employs-masked-monkey-waiters%2Famp;text=Japanese%20Restaurant%20Employs%20Masked%20Monkey%20Waitersamp;count=horizontalamp;via=laughingsquidamp;lang=enamp;related=_laughingsquid%3ALaughing+Squid+Links"img src="http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/plugins/tweetbutton-for-wordpress/images/tweet.png" style="border:none"/a/div div a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~ff/laughingsquid?a=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/laughingsquid?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~ff/laughingsquid?a=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/laughingsquid?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~ff/laughingsquid?a=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/laughingsquid?i=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~ff/laughingsquid?a=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:-BTjWOF_DHI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/laughingsquid?i=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:-BTjWOF_DHI" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~ff/laughingsquid?a=W7sAsVSd9OM:Xzc_8rR7afk:I9og5sOYxJI"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/laughingsquid?d=I9og5sOYxJI" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/laughingsquid/~4/W7sAsVSd9OM" height="1" width="1"p/p creepy.

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table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdcHY8lKehY/TVgH_cZSTtI/AAAAAAAANLE/kl-CCU7R-ZQ/s1600/bikeshow2.png" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdcHY8lKehY/TVgH_cZSTtI/AAAAAAAANLE/kl-CCU7R-ZQ/s400/bikeshow2.png" width="380"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"i1973 Penthouse Pet of the Year, Patricia Barrett/i/td/tr/tbody/tableIn the mid 1960s an overhead-camshaft four cylinder engine was the object of fantasy and an ideal of red-blooded motorcyclists everywhere.  None were available commercially, barring a few ungainly a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintagebike-images/mv_agusta_600-four.jpegamp;imgrefurl=http://www.khulsey.com/motorcycles/vintage_motorcycle_mv_agusta.htmlamp;h=300amp;w=468amp;sz=102amp;tbnid=OVctDWysTZo0bM:amp;tbnh=82amp;tbnw=128amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmv%2Bagusta%2B600amp;zoom=1amp;q=mv+agusta+600amp;usg=__KuxUuAOuZtlQaGwqo47QyCc8T6A=amp;sa=Xamp;ei=Gw5YTf6gDMHKhAer-szMDAamp;ved=0CC8Q9QEwAw"600cc MV Agustas/a, prohibitively expensive and with virtually no support from the MV factory, almost an apology or misdirection to fans eager for a roadster version of their all-conquering World Championship racing 4s.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u_2778QV7q0/TVgIAwx7-XI/AAAAAAAANLI/dkZ8tw4Ow5c/s1600/finished.primary.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="273" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u_2778QV7q0/TVgIAwx7-XI/AAAAAAAANLI/dkZ8tw4Ow5c/s400/finished.primary.jpg" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iShowing off the finned oil sump, and width of the motor/i/td/tr/tbody/tablea href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda"Honda/a had not yet translated their remarkable a href="http://www.vf750fd.com/Joep_Kortekaas/1960.html"RC161/a racing four-cylinder to the public, that would happen soon though.  It#39;s hard to visualize today that while four-cylinder motorcycle engines had been around since the first a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/08/first-4-cylinder-racer-at-isle-of-man.html"FN's pioneering machine of 1905/a, no factory in the early 1960s offered a #39;four#39; worth its salt.   Creative motorcyclists responded to this decades-old desire as they always had - they made their own, by lashing together a pair of twin-cylinder engines, or, for the truly inspired, fabricating the completely home-designed #39;cammy#39; fours (a href="http://atlascardsplus.com/1953-nougier-grand-prix/"Nougier/a, Marsh, etc), which cropped up in magazines like exotic flowers, typically built for racing.  brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iyit5reYXtQ/TVgILz5xN5I/AAAAAAAANMA/lm0U-nhtHqY/s1600/Prinz.png" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iyit5reYXtQ/TVgILz5xN5I/AAAAAAAANMA/lm0U-nhtHqY/s400/Prinz.png" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iNSU Prinz 1000, the rusty donor car./i/td/tr/tbody/tableAnother route to a 'four' was to pull the engine from a small car and stuff it into a motorcycle frame, as several 'special' builders did, some even in series, like a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/06/bavarian-road-test-5-munch-mammut.html"Friedl Münch/a. The most capacious frame in the 1960s was the a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/12/rex-mccandless-and-featherbed-frame.html"Norton Featherbed/a, in production for 10 years already, meaning plenty of #39;loose#39; frames were laying in salvage yards or with blown engines at home.  An engine with good #39;spec#39; was actually hard to find, as most #39;fours#39; in cars were both water-cooled and made of cast iron - guaranteeing a very heavy motorcycle.  A few small engines were of more advanced spec, with the two most likely candidates (in Europe at least) with full and deep motorcycle connections built into their DNA.brtable cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float:left;margin-right:1em;text-align:left"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1GDnHKKJq8/TVgIHnyfIqI/AAAAAAAANLs/c_DglfZoRq8/s1600/mockup2.jpg" style="clear:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1GDnHKKJq8/TVgIHnyfIqI/AAAAAAAANLs/c_DglfZoRq8/s1600/mockup2.jpg"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"Looking like a Gilera spy photo, almost!/td/tr/tbody/tabletable cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float:right;margin-left:1em;text-align:right"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2rdSr_kJJdg/TVgIGoOF2yI/AAAAAAAANLk/HADZvfPWsuE/s1600/mockup1.jpg" style="clear:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2rdSr_kJJdg/TVgIGoOF2yI/AAAAAAAANLk/HADZvfPWsuE/s1600/mockup1.jpg"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"The engine originally used twin Solex carbs/td/tr/tbody/tablebrdiv style="clear:both;text-align:center"/divThe a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillman_Imp"Hillman 'Imp'/a had a lovely and powerul engine, albeit watercooled, designed by unsung Norton hero a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/02/leo-kusmicki-and-norton-squish.html"Leo Kusmicki, the man who touched the 'Manx' with his magic wand and kept it competitive for 10 years after its 'sell-by' date/a.  Kusmicki went to work for the automotive industry after Norton shuttered its race shop, and the ohc #39;Imp#39; engine was well-known as strong and capable of being tuned to a high pitch.  The water-cooling dissuaded many solo motorcyclists, although plenty of racing sidecar outfits found the need to carry water a small price to pay, given the cheap power an Imp provided.  Who needed the money of Count Agusta when a wrecked Hillman provided a readymade power unit?brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RMKNUvErE0/TVgIFy2dF9I/AAAAAAAANLc/pZoxgxNu2Nw/s1600/mockup.engineinframe.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="276" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RMKNUvErE0/TVgIFy2dF9I/AAAAAAAANLc/pZoxgxNu2Nw/s400/mockup.engineinframe.jpg" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iSitting comfortably within the Featherbed frame.../i/td/tr/tbody/tableAnother car-engine donor came from venerable a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/10/super-secret-nsu-collection-spy-photos.html"motorcycle manufacturer NSU./a  The engine from their a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Prinz"'Prinz'/a automobile, which served long years as a rally competitor, was successively tuned by the carmaker to ever sportier iterations, with the #39;1200 TTS#39; the ultimate model, appearing at the right moment to inspire plenty of dreaming two-wheel tinkerers.  And it was air-cooled and all-aluminum, with handsome finning, and few awkward casting shapes to spoil its looks.  The Prinz engine fit into the Norton frame without cutting metal, although the bolt-on sump needed a revamp... heaving the lump into a Norton frame looks simple, at first.  The reality of mating this engine with a gearbox, primary chain, and clutch, and a functioning oil sump, was far more complicated than that seductive #39;looks easy#39; mental image.  Skilled fabrication was essential for everything to line up and function properly; a talented stylist was needed to make the result look like a proper motorcycle.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5anZung3B4/TVgIHQsvPEI/AAAAAAAANLo/oMNlxmdshoM/s1600/motor.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S5anZung3B4/TVgIHQsvPEI/AAAAAAAANLo/oMNlxmdshoM/s320/motor.jpg" width="260"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"The 1058cc NSU engine, with chain-driven OHC./td/tr/tbody/tableMick King a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/12/norton-not-mammut.html"(from the 'Norton Not Mammut' post)/a was kind enough to share his process, in photos, of taking a rustbucket NSU Prinz and a 1967 a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/11/much-maligned-norton-atlas.html"Norton Atlas/a chassis, and creating a successful hybrid.  The photos hint at the measuring, drawing, and fabrication time required to bring the elements together, something easy to forget when looking at the finished product.  That is the magic and drawback of a successful job - it looks easy!  The Italians call this a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura"'Sprezzatura'/a  - making the difficult look effortless; the mark of mastery.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFFjNNdLEIo/TVgIPrKsekI/AAAAAAAANMQ/A15eMcGzJCU/s1600/side.noairbox.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="353" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xFFjNNdLEIo/TVgIPrKsekI/AAAAAAAANMQ/A15eMcGzJCU/s400/side.noairbox.jpg" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iNo airbox yet to fill the 'gap' - a mockup shot./i/td/tr/tbody/tableThe build took him long enough that both the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CB750"Honda 'CB750'/a and the a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2010/11/catherine-paris-norton.html"Norton 'Commando'/a emerged on the market in the meantime, but as his machine was never meant as a production exercise, the Commando contributed useful bits to his Norton/NSU: the front forks and disc brake, mufflers, seat, and clutch.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nssKdqPz9iU/TVgIMxfyo-I/AAAAAAAANMI/0LqfLaL9wDQ/s1600/rear.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nssKdqPz9iU/TVgIMxfyo-I/AAAAAAAANMI/0LqfLaL9wDQ/s400/rear.jpg" width="266"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iFrom the rear, almost a Norton Atlas, barring the extra Peashooter mufflers!/i/td/tr/tbody/table The two #39;big#39; jobs in translating the engine from car to bike were the sump, which Mick cast in shapely aluminum to fit between the Norton frame rails, and the clutch/transmission interface, which he solved via an extended, demountable coupling between the gearbox and clutch, using a #39;simple#39; steel box attached to the engine plates, which holds an outrigger bearing for the extended clutch shaft.  This also meant installing the Norton gearbox backwards!  Yes, it works fine both ways, but Mick had to reverse the #39;pawl#39; on the kickstart shaft. The photographs should explain his thinking, which seems sound enough - the clutch no longer runs on the gearbox mainshaft but its own stub shaft, connected to the gearbox via a mated pair of pegged plates, similar to BMW shaft-drive practice.  All very clever and relatively simple.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pNgEBo7uvVQ/TVgIEJn7MJI/AAAAAAAANLU/l1kDm2-QGTk/s1600/gearbox.adapter.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="248" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pNgEBo7uvVQ/TVgIEJn7MJI/AAAAAAAANLU/l1kDm2-QGTk/s320/gearbox.adapter.jpg" width="320"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iThe extension 'box' for the clutch; note clutch release pushrod in the center./i/td/tr/tbody/tableThe donor NSU model was the a href="http://www.nsuprinz.com/Models/NSU_Prinz_4.asp"'Prinz 1000',/a and had Mick King read the specifications for this model, he might have thought twice about the engine!  While an impressive #39;spec#39; the standard Prinz only produced 40hp @ 5500rpm, which is about 10hp less than the a href="http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2008/11/much-maligned-norton-atlas.html"Norton Atlas engine/a which he abandoned to make his #39;special#39;... no wonder then that he was shocked to find his finished hybrid a #39;gutless wonder#39;.  If Mick had access to the latest model a href="http://www.nsuprinz.com/Models/NSU_Prinz_TTS.asp"(1968) NSU TTS/a, he would have found a 70hp engine, using 10.5:1 compression pistons (not much room for increase there!) and sporting camshaft.  After Mick#39;s engine tuning work, the Norton/NSU was capable of 125mph, so it seems he equaled the NSU factory in hotting up the engine.brtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wb6TbSrCR1E/TVgH93KVW4I/AAAAAAAANLA/BIxNJsRnXUA/s1600/bikeshow1.png" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="381" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wb6TbSrCR1E/TVgH93KVW4I/AAAAAAAANLA/BIxNJsRnXUA/s400/bikeshow1.png" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iVancouver 1973, winning 'Best in Show'/i/td/tr/tbody/tableThe finished machine did well on the 'show bike' circuit in the early 1970s, garnering Mick many 'Best of Show' wins, and the snap i(top)/i with the 1973 Penthouse Pet of the Year,  a href="http://penthousepets1969.blogspot.com/2009/06/january-1972-penthouse-pet-patricia.html?zx=cfe54afb8996b29d"Patricia Barrett/a.  Which you may think is irrelevant, but consider that the 1971 Pet of the Year, a href="http://penthousepets1969.blogspot.com/2009/06/april-1970-stephanie-mclean.html"Stephanie McLean/a, was racer a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sheene"Barry Sheene's/a wife.  brdiv style="clear:both;text-align:center"a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2rdSr_kJJdg/TVgIGoOF2yI/AAAAAAAANLk/HADZvfPWsuE/s1600/mockup1.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em"img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2rdSr_kJJdg/TVgIGoOF2yI/AAAAAAAANLk/HADZvfPWsuE/s200/mockup1.jpg" width="191"/aa href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XQX0koLzQnQ/TVgIGaVUpVI/AAAAAAAANLg/hTze5ZFNK1A/s1600/mockup%253Aprimary.jpg" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em"img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XQX0koLzQnQ/TVgIGaVUpVI/AAAAAAAANLg/hTze5ZFNK1A/s200/mockup%253Aprimary.jpg" width="190"/a/divtable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDy9OkxUSic/TVgIKYxbVsI/AAAAAAAANL4/zkWaVHlpqHw/s1600/primary.mag.jpg" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="263" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDy9OkxUSic/TVgIKYxbVsI/AAAAAAAANL4/zkWaVHlpqHw/s400/primary.mag.jpg" width="400"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iBefore the airbox, but after painting; showing four carbs now./i/td/tr/tbody/tabletable align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center"tbodytrtd style="text-align:center"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZE1jltmlfWo/TVgIQbOfu4I/AAAAAAAANMU/Lt55aiZBLzw/s1600/superformance.png" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZE1jltmlfWo/TVgIQbOfu4I/AAAAAAAANMU/Lt55aiZBLzw/s320/superformance.png" width="320"/a/td/trtrtd style="text-align:center"iMick King's motorcycle shop in BC; Superformance./i/td/tr/tbody/tablediv style="clear:both;text-align:center"/divdivimg width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33435968-7089893731523334437?l=thevintagent.blogspot.com" alt=""/div

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pimg title="Rememberings" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/rememberings-1.jpg" alt="Rememberings" width="500" height="357"/p pa href="http://www.bravo-company.info/"Bravo Company/a, an independent design studio based in Singapore, has recently launched a clever new product called a href="http://www.rememberin.gs/"Rememberings™/a. These stretchable silicon rings, similar to those yellow LIVESTRONG bracelets, have inscriptions on them that remind us of little, yet important things, such as Take pills; Call mum; Pay bills; Return books; Buy gift, etc, that always seem to slip our minds. The bright colors are sure to catch anybody’s eye, which thus fulfills its purpose of reminding! It works well as an accessory or a gift for a forgetful friend./p pspan/spanimg title="Rememberings" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/rememberings-2.jpg" alt="Rememberings" width="500" height="500"/p pimg title="Rememberings" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/rememberings-3.jpg" alt="Rememberings" width="500" height="500"/p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Rememberings%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/rememberings/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/rememberings/amp;title=Rememberings" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/style-fashion/" title="View all posts in Style amp; Fashion" rel="category tag"Style amp; Fashion/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/rememberings/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/rememberings/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/KmORaMp8B7Y" height="1" width="1"

pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-1.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pa href="http://www.bureauproberts.com.au/"bureau^proberts/a designed this three-story modern family home in Newmarket, Queensland, Australia. The a href="http://www.bureauproberts.com.au/project/patane-residence/"Patane Residence/a is concrete construction with an open and airy floor plan that features cantilevered balconies offering views of the Brisbane skyline and Mount Coot-tha./p pspan/spanThe indoor/outdoor feel is achieved with each floor having various types of floor to ceiling windows and doors that open up to the outdoor pool, terraces, patio and yard space. The smooth, finished white floors are a sleek continuation of the white walls inside and out. The white throughout balances well with the warm wood ceilings and trim work, as well as the fence, shutters and other outdoor features. It definitely has a tropical, almost Brazilian feel./p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-2.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-3.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="750" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-4.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-5.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="750" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-6.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="205" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-7.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="205" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-8.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="205" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-9.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-10.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="246" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-11.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="205" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-12.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-13.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/BureauProberts-Pantane-14.jpg" alt="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts" width="500" height="333" title="Patane Residence by bureau^proberts"/p pPhotography by Jon Linkins./p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Patane%20Residence%20by%20bureau%5Eproberts%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/patane-residence-by-bureauproberts/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/patane-residence-by-bureauproberts/amp;title=Patane%20Residence%20by%20bureau%5Eproberts" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Caroline in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/architecture/" title="View all posts in Architecture" rel="category tag"Architecture/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/patane-residence-by-bureauproberts/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/patane-residence-by-bureauproberts/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/XBfEAx5hiKA" height="1" width="1"

pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-1.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pa href="http://dontstareatthesun.com"Kennedy James/a‘ a href="http://www.dontstareatthesun.com/category/serial-bondage/"Serial Bondage series/a features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bondage"Shibari/a (rope bondage). Sexy!/p pspan/spanimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-2.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-3.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-4.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="610"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-5.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="640"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-6.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="417"/p pShe has some pieces available for purchase on a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/dontstareatthesun"Etsy/a along with custom order requests./p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Serial%20Bondage%20by%20Kennedy%20James%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/amp;title=Serial%20Bondage%20by%20Kennedy%20James" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/art/" title="View all posts in Art" rel="category tag"Art/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/art-milk/~4/-uAifaH3xLk" height="1" width="1"

pimg title="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/we-never-give-up-1.jpg" alt="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" width="500" height="333"/p pI bet you’d never expect to see a modern sled! a href="http://hanczar.com/produkt/"We Never Give Up!/a is a design by Polish designer a href="http://hanczar.com/"Szymon Hanczar/a that’s an update to the traditional winter sled./p pspan/spanHere’s some info about the design written by Joanna Legan:/p blockquotepNot so long ago people in Poland used to take their sledges from the basements and take over all possible city hills. At that time snow still existed.br As we are suffering from greenhouse effect and something like snow simply does not exist anymore, we are offering a brand- new, attractive and minimalist sledge, possible to use on all types of flat surfaces, sloping though.br The sledge is more trendy than long board, and more stylish than roller-skates. Additionally, being a double vehicle, they offer you the possibility of integration. It’s an ideal option for vehicle owners. Ideally suited for parking lots, deserted streets and flats which were constructed by developers not knowing how to use spirit levels. The sledge develops an impressive speed. In any self- respecting apartment they can function as a prestigious mobile couch./p/blockquote pimg title="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/we-never-give-up-2.jpg" alt="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" width="500" height="333"/p pimg title="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/we-never-give-up-3.jpg" alt="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" width="500" height="333"/p pimg title="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/we-never-give-up-4.jpg" alt="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" width="500" height="342"/p pimg title="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/we-never-give-up-5.jpg" alt="We Never Give Up! Modern Sled" width="500" height="333"/p pPhotos by a href="http://www.grappastudio.pl"Jedrzej Stelmaszek/a./p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20We%20Never%20Give%20Up!%20Modern%20Sled%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/we-never-give-up-modern-sled/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/we-never-give-up-modern-sled/amp;title=We%20Never%20Give%20Up!%20Modern%20Sled" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/home-furnishings/" title="View all posts in Home Furnishings" rel="category tag"Home Furnishings/a, a href="http://design-milk.com/category/style-fashion/" title="View all posts in Style amp; Fashion" rel="category tag"Style amp; Fashion/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/we-never-give-up-modern-sled/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/we-never-give-up-modern-sled/#comments"1 comment/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/x8GpdcNmhDM" height="1" width="1"

pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-1.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pa href="http://dontstareatthesun.com"Kennedy James/a‘ a href="http://www.dontstareatthesun.com/category/serial-bondage/"Serial Bondage series/a features chairs tied up, strung up and hung up in the ancient art of Japanese a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bondage"Shibari/a (rope bondage). Sexy!/p pspan/spanimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-2.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-3.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="500"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-4.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="610"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-5.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="640"/p pimg title="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/serial-bondage-6.jpg" alt="Serial Bondage by Kennedy James" width="500" height="417"/p pShe has some pieces available for purchase on a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/dontstareatthesun"Etsy/a along with custom order requests./p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Serial%20Bondage%20by%20Kennedy%20James%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/amp;title=Serial%20Bondage%20by%20Kennedy%20James" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/art/" title="View all posts in Art" rel="category tag"Art/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/serial-bondage-by-kennedy-james/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/-uAifaH3xLk" height="1" width="1"

pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Erin-Desk.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="373" title="Phloem Studio"/p pa href="http://phloemstudio.com/index.html"Phloem Studio/a is a custom furniture company based in Portland, Oregon. Owner and designer Ben Klebba has an eye for building clean-lined pieces of wood furniture and cabinets with a modern feel. Each piece is made by hand with the type of craftsmanship that makes these timeless pieces last forever./p pspan/spanimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Matt-Credenza.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="318" title="Phloem Studio"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Boomer-Bench.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="305" title="Phloem Studio"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Mingus-Table.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="390" title="Phloem Studio"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Jess-Dresser.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="375" title="Phloem Studio"/p pLove this detail:/p pimg title="Phloem Studio" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-dresser-detail.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="297"/p pimg src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2011/12/Phloem-Nadine-Chair.jpg" alt="Phloem Studio" width="500" height="394" title="Phloem Studio"/p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Phloem%20Studio%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/phloem-studio/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/phloem-studio/amp;title=Phloem%20Studio" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Caroline in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/home-furnishings/" title="View all posts in Home Furnishings" rel="category tag"Home Furnishings/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/phloem-studio/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/phloem-studio/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/xYn_Kjgqi3s" height="1" width="1"

pimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-bob-vila.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="500"/p pemIf you’re an HGTV or DIY Network fanatic, you must understand that the channel didn’t blossom out of nowhere. Long ago, a href="http://www.bobvila.com/"Bob Vila/a and /emThis Old Houseem laid the groundwork for DIY as entertainment. Vila, who has spent his career helping people upgrade their homes (and lives), went on to present similar offshoot series, /emBob Vila’s Home Againem, /emBob Vilaem, and /emRestore America with Bob Vilaem. His latest efforts include tackling the online world with his webisode pilot series /ema href="http://www.bobvila.com/projects/2-building-green/episodes/12-building-green-pilot"Building Green/aem. We’re lucky to say he’s the star of this week’s a href="http://design-milk.com/tag/friday-five/"Friday Five/a./em/p pspan/spanimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-Bob-Vila-1-Florida.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="375"/p p1. Florida Gardensbr I grew up with a small front and back yard in Miami that my father tended. I helped and eventually as a teenager, I did most of the work. I’ve always loved the tropical landscape./p pimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-Bob-Vila-2-Car.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="375"/p p2. Carsbr I’ve been lucky with cars. My first was an MGA, and I’ve owned a classic E-type. The Mercedes in the picture was bought new in ’68 by my in-laws./p pimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-Bob-Vila-3-Wine.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="375"/p p3. Great Winebr I learned a little about wines when I lived in Europe in the early ’70s. I learned even more from my late father-in-law, Joe King, who was generous with his excellent cellar./p pimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-Bob-Vila-4-Blazer.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="375"/p p4. Italian Designbr Italian-made clothing lasts a long time, and the tailoring is comfortable and elegant. I remember the wardrobe mistress at the emToday/em show handing me back my Brioni jacket after she’d pressed it, saying, “Bob, that blazer don’t owe you nothin’.�/p pimg title="Friday Five with Bob Vila" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/F5-Bob-Vila-5-Sea.jpg" alt="Friday Five with Bob Vila" width="500" height="375"/p p5. The Seabr Growing up in Miami and Havana, the sea was always within sight. The two years I lived in Germany deprived me of that closeness. Since then, I’ve never lived too far from the shore./p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Friday%20Five%20with%20Bob%20Vila%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/friday-five-with-bob-vila/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/friday-five-with-bob-vila/amp;title=Friday%20Five%20with%20Bob%20Vila" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Marni in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/architecture/" title="View all posts in Architecture" rel="category tag"Architecture/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/friday-five-with-bob-vila/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/friday-five-with-bob-vila/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/pVcpzbUJteM" height="1" width="1"

pIn case you don’t know what The DMD is all about, it’s a collection of a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a artist prints and accessories available for sale to support the emerging artist community, something I’m very passionate about. I hope that you can join in supporting by checking out the affordable prints or becoming part of the a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a art community./p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-mugs-print.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="350"/p pEveryone loves an inanimate object that suddenly, with the addition of eyes and a smile, becomes a cute little character. So this week in a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"The Design Milk Dairy/a I’ve chosen cute illustrations of everyday objects given instant personality by their creators. Above is a href="http://society6.com/product/Mugs_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Mugs by Teo Zirinis/a — that poor little guy in the middle img src="http://4.design-milk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" /p pPlus, I want to mention there’s free shipping on a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a through Sunday 1/29 (excl. framed and canvas prints)! So a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"go make a deposit/a into an artist’s future./p pspan/spanimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-cookie-loves-milk.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="647"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/Cookie-Loves-Milk_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Cookie Loves Milk by Jessica Fink/a (yay for milk cartons!)/p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-toothpaste.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="350"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/The-Life-Cycle-of-Toothpaste_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Life is like a tube of toothpaste by Terry Fan/a/p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-lil-soap.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="647"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/Lil-Soap_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Lil’ Soap by Jessica Fink/a/p pemIn an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a to offer a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"The Design Milk Dairy/a, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day./em/p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Fresh%20From%20The%20Dairy:%20Cute%20Characters%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/amp;title=Fresh%20From%20The%20Dairy:%20Cute%20Characters" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/art/" title="View all posts in Art" rel="category tag"Art/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/art-milk/~4/iovT_sII0SM" height="1" width="1"

pIn case you don’t know what The DMD is all about, it’s a collection of a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a artist prints and accessories available for sale to support the emerging artist community, something I’m very passionate about. I hope that you can join in supporting by checking out the affordable prints or becoming part of the a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a art community./p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-mugs-print.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="350"/p pEveryone loves an inanimate object that suddenly, with the addition of eyes and a smile, becomes a cute little character. So this week in a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"The Design Milk Dairy/a I’ve chosen cute illustrations of everyday objects given instant personality by their creators. Above is a href="http://society6.com/product/Mugs_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Mugs by Teo Zirinis/a — that poor little guy in the middle img src="http://4.design-milk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" /p pPlus, I want to mention there’s free shipping on a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a through Sunday 1/29 (excl. framed and canvas prints)! So a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"go make a deposit/a into an artist’s future./p pspan/spanimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-cookie-loves-milk.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="647"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/Cookie-Loves-Milk_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Cookie Loves Milk by Jessica Fink/a (yay for milk cartons!)/p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-toothpaste.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="350"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/The-Life-Cycle-of-Toothpaste_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Life is like a tube of toothpaste by Terry Fan/a/p pimg title="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" src="http://4.design-milk.com/images/2012/01/s6-lil-soap.jpg" alt="Fresh From The Dairy: Cute Characters" width="500" height="647"/p pa href="http://society6.com/product/Lil-Soap_Print?tag=design-milkamp;curator=designmilk"Lil’ Soap by Jessica Fink/a/p pemIn an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"Society6/a to offer a href="http://www.society6.com/prints/design-milk?curator=designmilk"The Design Milk Dairy/a, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day./em/p hrbShare This:/b a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Fresh%20From%20The%20Dairy:%20Cute%20Characters%20on%20@designmilk:%20http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/" title="Tweet This"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/amp;title=Fresh%20From%20The%20Dairy:%20Cute%20Characters" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/designmilk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/designmilk"Facebook/a. hr small© 2012 a href="http://design-milk.com"Design Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://design-milk.com/category/art/" title="View all posts in Art" rel="category tag"Art/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/"Permalink/a | a href="http://design-milk.com/fresh-from-the-dairy-cute-characters/#comments"No comments/a/smallimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/design-milk/~4/iovT_sII0SM" height="1" width="1"

blockquoteShared by Duane br bike porn/blockquote pIn their continuing series of “how-to� nights, the a href="http://www.bazaarcafe.com/"Bazaar Cafe/a brings us “How To Build a Bike From Scratch� next Wednesday night. /p pIf you’re been thinking about building a bike, or even ordering a custom one, here’s your chance to learn all the finer points of quality bike construction. /p pThe session will be led by Peter Verdone, a super talented designer of bicycles and skateboards who constructs his bike frames from raw materials. He’ll give an overview of the different ways of building bikes, design and fitting concepts, the tools required, how to draw a bike plan, component selection, and much more. /p pCheck out the bike part porn below from Verdone’s Flickr stream. img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" /p pThe free class takes place on Wednesday, March 9 from 7pm until 9pm at the Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California Street near 22nd Avenue. /p pSarah B./p p/pcenteriframe src="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/embediframe?src=http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v%3D71649amp;width=650amp;height=488amp;flashVars=offsite%3Dtrue%26lang%3Den-us%26page_show_url%3D%252Fphotos%252Fpvdwiki%252Fsets%252F72157623572333606%252Fshow%252F%26page_show_back_url%3D%252Fphotos%252Fpvdwiki%252Fsets%252F72157623572333606%252F%26set_id%3D72157623572333606%26jump_to%3D" width="650" height="488"/iframe/centerp/p div style="text-align:right;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"a href="http://richmondsfblog.com/2011/03/04/how-to-build-a-bike-from-scratch-at-the-bazaar-cafe-march-9/?pfstyle=wp" style="text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:#000000"img src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif" alt="PrintFriendly"/a/divpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/9r1c1p2m71rth2bvlmkak1v4bg/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Frichmondsfblog.com%2F2011%2F03%2F04%2Fhow-to-build-a-bike-from-scratch-at-the-bazaar-cafe-march-9%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/DJ1nhPihUwU" height="1" width="1" bike porn

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/ipad/" rel="tag"iPad/a/pdiv align="center"iframe src="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/embediframe?src=http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id%3D10964580%26server%3Dvimeo.com%26show_title%3D1%26show_byline%3D0%26show_portrait%3D0%26color%3D00ADEF%26fullscreen%3D1amp;width=400amp;height=225" width="400" height="225"/iframe/div br I love cycling and I love the a href="http://tuaw.com/tag/ipad"iPad/a, but you'll never see me using both in unison. Ever. Not so for the cycling enthusiasts at a href="http://www.maya.com/"Maya/a. They've created the a href="http://www.maya.com/sprocket""Sprocket Pocket"/a -- a industrial nylon patch with integrated zipper and protective screen overlay for the iPad that can be ironed or sewn on to any garment in minutes. br br The idea is that you put your $500 to $830 iPad into this patch pocket that you iron onto your clothes, and then ride around with it on your back going at speeds of up to twenty miles per hour. The pocket is to be used in conjunction with the MAYA Sprocket app, which uses the iPad's accelerometer to automatically display images on screen for drivers to see. If you stop or begin to slow down, a big stop sign is displayed. If you turn left or right, a left or right arrow appears.br br The device is good in theory, but seems excessive when simple a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_signals"universal cycling hand signals/a will work just as well. And I don't really want the jerk who's already tailing me to speed up to see what that big glowing panel is on my back. Speaking of which, you get hot enough as it is cycling in the summer. Do you really want a 10-inch aluminum device with a massive heat-generating battery strapped to your spine? In this case, impracticality outweighs any actual function.br br [via a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-makes-us-feel-like-little-girls/"Engadget/a]p style="padding:5px;clear:both"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/"iPad Sprocket Pocket signals bicyclist's intentions/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both"/ph6 style="clear:both;padding:8px 0 0 0;height:2px;font-size:1px;border:0;margin:0;padding:0"/h6a href="http://www.maya.com/sprocket"Read/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/19443417/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/a | a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/16/ipad-sprocket-pocket-signals-bicyclists-intentions/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a

blockquoteShared by Duane br and for those times when you leave your gun at home: that kryptonite lock can make a real nice dent. ;-)/blockquote pa href="http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2010/04/09/the-system-357-bike-rep/"img src="http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/comics/2010-04-09-bikerep.gif" border="0" alt="Comic"/a/ppRespect and reputation are very important. That’s why I wear my a href="http://hilariawesome.com/4"bike sniper shirt/a as much as my laundry schedule will allow./p pYesterday in DC a href="http://dcist.com/2010/04/biker_struck_by_road_rager_in_bloom.php"a car seems to have intentionally run a cyclist off the road/a. What can bikers do to help show the cars around us whose boss? I want your thoughts! Keep it legal, or if not legal at least creative, and worth breaking the law for./p piframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/tdr3hdfkm43nkokptf1dk9plcg/300/250#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.notquitewrong.com%2Frosscottinc%2F2010%2F04%2F09%2Fthe-system-357-bike-rep%2F" width="100%" height="250" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/systemcomic/~4/ZdjQVBn_VK0" height="1" width="1" and for those times when you leave your gun at home: that kryptonite lock can make a real nice dent. ;-)

brpa href="http://missionmission.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-modern-san-franciscan-lives-in-the-mission.jpg"img title="the modern san franciscan lives in the mission" src="http://missionmission.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-modern-san-franciscan-lives-in-the-mission.jpg?w=450amp;h=604" alt="" height="604" width="450"/a/p pLocal artist a href="http://www.mikegiant.com"Mike Giant/a has a solo show a href="http://www.mikegiant.com/news.php?post=29amp;m=1amp;y=2010"opening in Milan next week/a. This diagram just might be part of the fun. (Click to enlarge.)/p pAccurate? How many of you girls wear panties? Fuck on a first date? Hate television? (Even emGlee/em?)/p p[via a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wombatbiker/4313839545/"wombatbiker/a]/p pstrongPreviously:/strong/p p style="padding-left:30px"a href="http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/flashback-mission-hipster-2003/"Mission Hipster/a/p Filed under: a href="http://missionmission.wordpress.com/category/people/"People/a a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/"img alt="" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/" border="0"/a a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/"img alt="" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/" border="0"/a a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/"img alt="" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/" border="0"/a a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/"img alt="" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/" border="0"/a a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/"img alt="" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/missionmission.wordpress.com/11508/" border="0"/a img alt="" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionmission.wordpress.comamp;blog=805913amp;post=11508amp;subd=missionmissionamp;ref=amp;feed=1" border="0"

blockquoteShared by Duane br wonder what she'll bring back from Amsterdam... ;-)/blockquote The executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Leah Shahum, will spend eight months living and cycling in Amsterdam this year, on an unpaid sabbatical.div a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?i=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds.bizjournals.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?a=-Ev1S2UQ3k8:0zQEb1HuHfQ:qj6IDK7rITs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/bizj_sanfrancisco?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"/a /div wonder what she'll bring back from Amsterdam... ;-)

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blockquoteShared by Duane br I'll take all of these. or one even. fantastic. There are a few venues in the Bay Area that you can actually ride some of the bicycles featured in this article. The Maker Faire, Tour de Fat to name a couple that are well documented./blockquote pimg title="mod_bicycles_main" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_main.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_main" height="441" width="468"br Pimp my bike? It’s more common then you think. Artistically a href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/03/futuristic-strange-concept-bicycles-designs/"modified bicycles/a are the coolest things on two wheels these days. Here are 15 of the weirdest, wildest, most outrageous bikes ever to pop a sweet jump.br span/span/p h4BMW Does BMX/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_5a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_5a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_5a" height="530" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"MillionFace/a and a href="http://www.serotta.com/forum/printthread.php?t=60625"Serotta/a)/span/p pThe futuristic bikes above purport to be a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"BMW concepts/a though only one bears the BMW roundel, another is marked “Ultegra� and most of the rest carry the “Specialized� label. No matter - let’s just hope they go into production at some point!/p pimg title="mod_bicycles_5b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_5b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_5b" height="579" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.millionface.com/l/latest-bmw-bicycles/"MillionFace/a and a href="http://www.serotta.com/forum/printthread.php?t=60625"Serotta/a)/span/p pAbove are a few more cool concept bikes from the Specialized group, a well-spoken selection though few actually have spokes in their wheels. Wonder where the baseball card goes?/p h4Spinning Wheels, Got To Go ‘Round/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_1" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_1.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_1" height="675" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/pimp_out_your_bike_wheels_with.php"Geekologie/a and a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/06/05/monkeylectrics-full.html"BoingBoing Gadgets/a)/span/p pAny self-respecting bike rider wants to lighten up their ride, and a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/index.htm"MonkeyLectric/a gives them as much light as they can carry. Packing 32 full color LEDs and a bevy of visual effects, the MonkeyLectric Monkey Light fits almost any bike wheel and works in any type of weather. If looking like Miss Gulch from The Wizard Of Oz after a run-in with Nicola Tesla is what you’re after, the MonkeyLectric Monkey Light is for you, my pretties! Check out the Monkey Light in action right here:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtbeU8FJW0amp;feature=player_embedded"MonkeyLectric bike lighting, via JadeAjani/a/p h4Positively Ex-Static/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_2" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_2.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_2" height="587" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/m464q.htm"MonkeyLectric/a and a href="http://gopaultech.com/blog/2009/06/monkeylectric-bike-lighting-pimps-your-ride/"PaulTech Network/a)/span/p pWant to display static ads in LED light as you pedal through town? Anyone? Well just in case, MonkeyLectric has gone ape with what they modestly call em“the most advanced rotating wheel display system in the world.�/em From the looks of the MonkeyLectric a href="http://www.monkeylectric.com/m464q.htm"Video Pro M464Q/a, we believe them. Stabilized solid images, full color motion video and wireless control come standard and the folks at MonkeyLectric will custom-build a system to suit your needs. All this doesn’t come cheap - systems START in the $2,000 range - but for commercial applications it could be worth the expense to get noticed./p h4Tree Wheeler/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_3" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_3.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_3" height="512" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-1008_3-6202540-1.html"Cnet/a)/span/p pA-frames are made of wood; so are picture frames, so why not bicycle frames? Well, plenty of reasons… but none of them stood in the way of German timber technology student Jens Eichler. Applying his knowledge of wood along with a heaping helping of phenol-resorcinol glue, Eichler crafted one of the most beautiful bikes anyone’s ever seen. a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-1008_3-6202540-1.html"Renovatia/a is made of Beech plywood and is, of all things, a tandem bicycle./p h4Bike Riding Mowers/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_10" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_10.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_10" height="474" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/maynardaac/class.html"MAAC/a, a href="http://forum.bikemag.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1863"Bikemag/a and a href="http://www.geocities.com/harleyheartbeat/"Harley Heartbeat/a)/span/p pWhat do you get when you cross a bicycle with a reel mower? A reel strange bike… but not so strange that more than a few folks have cobbled such a beast together. Though these a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/the_cutting_edg.php"bike-riding mowers/a may look all wrong, they do have a lot of positives: they’re eco-friendly, exercise-inducing and never fail to provoke a grin (or a look of extreme puzzlement)./p h4Divine Recline/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_4" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_4.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_4" height="546" width="464"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://trendsupdates.com/boy-cycling-with-comfort-sounds-inviting/"TrendsUpdates/a and a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_set.asp?individual_id=94738amp;set_id=130398amp;"Coroflot/a)/span/p pRecumbent bikes are typically form-follows-function designs that leave little room for artistic expression. Not so this sleek amp; sexy design prototype by College for Creative Studies graduate a href="http://www.coroflot.com/public/individual_file.asp?specialty=4amp;is_featured=%2D1amp;c=1amp;portfolio_id=813629amp;individual_id=94738"Mathew Zurlinden/a, which shatters the stereotype by pushing the envelope as far as it will stretch. The Legato GT features hubless wheels, Shimano Dura-Ace brakes and an Infina-Gear CVT Transmission that makes mountains into molehills. Definitely not your grandfather’s recliner!/p h4Not Just Another Tequila Sunrise/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_6a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_6a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_6a" height="620" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-tequila-sunrise-and-eye-candy.html"Oddity Central/a and a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tuvie/a)/span/p pJason Battersby has created a couple of wheeled wonders he calls a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tequila Sunrise/a and Eye Candy. The former, pictured above, is a retro-futuristic throwback to the fabulous fifties complete with cyclops headlight and a skirted rear fender. Malt shop, here we come!/p pEye Candy, You Candybr img title="mod_bicycles_6b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_6b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_6b" height="625" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-tequila-sunrise-and-eye-candy.html"Oddity Central/a and a href="http://www.tuvie.com/the-green-eye-candy-and-orange-tequila-sunrise-bicycles"Tuvie/a)/span/p pWith Eye Candy, a href="http://www.jbdesign.ca/"Jason Battersby/a takes a different design tack that recalls sixties Mustang bikes, metal-flake dune buggies and the original Batmobile. These bike designs aren’t your typical “look but don’t touch� fragile fabrications, either. Confirms Battersby, em“Both bicycles are fully ride-able. I have rode both bicycles without any problems.�/em Surprised Torontonians, not so much - these beauteous bikes have the power to induce instant whiplash in onlookers./p h4I’ll Be Bike…/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_7" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_7.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_7" height="492" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.techchee.com/2009/01/26/skeleton-bicycle-is-to-challenge-you-for-a-ride/"Tech Chee/a and a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5139103/skeleton-bicycle-will-give-me-nightmares-for-weeks"Gizmodo/a)/span/p pa href="http://judturner.com/new_work_gal/new_gal30.html"Jud Turner/a put what seems to be an obvious Terminator obsession to work when creating the Bio-Cycle. The 60-inch long bike was built expressly for the February 2008 “Different Spokes� invitational sculpture show in Salem, Oregon and is made of welded steel, found objects and mixed media. An earlier version had rubber skin, we spotted them easy… OK, not really but you see where I’m going with this. As for Termin… that is, Turner, he’s revisited the art of bare-bones bicycle building with the R-evolve bike. So easy even a caveman can ride it./p h4Sole Bike/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_8" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_8.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_8" height="295" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://maxknight.co.uk/2008/04/14/walking-bike/"Maxknight/a)/span/p pThe Walking Bike by a href="http://maxknight.co.uk/2008/04/14/walking-bike/"Max Wright Design/a is a shoe-in for weirdest bike honors - and for garnering the most bad puns. Each of the bike’s wheels feature 8 pairs of assorted athletic shoes, which should leave very confusing footprints in snow or sand. The following short video of the “Superted� walking bike proves that when it comes to long-distance running, one should just run:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSzzgFb5rkgamp;feature=player_embedded"Superted Walking Bike, via Yorgodzilla/a/p h4Vicious Cycle/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_9a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_9a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_9a" height="443" width="468"/p pimg title="mod_bicycles_9b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_9b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_9b" height="432" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/circular-bike-photos-vicious-cycle.php"Treehugger/a and a href="http://www.robertwechsler.com/thebest.html"Robert Wechsler/a)/span/p pEven extra-strength Midol isn’t enough to cure the Vicious Cycle; circular reasoning of the bicycling kind. The ride to nowhere was crafted by UCSB design student a href="http://www.robertwechsler.com/thebest.html"Robert Wechsler/a for no apparent reason except that he had 9 bikes lying around and didn’t want to just junk them. Wechsler likes to assemble the 12-foot diameter mega-bike at different locations and leave it for passersby to amuse themselves, recorded merry-go-round music optional./p h4Spoken Sie Deutsch?/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_11" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_11.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_11" height="600" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://www.team-tentakulus.de/index.php/industrial-design-produktdesign-industriedesign/shocker/2009"Team Tentakulus/a)/span/p pSven Fischer from Team Tentakulus whipped up the ominous, jet black Shocker Chopper bike, probably using the Hammer of Thor on an anvil stolen from Satan himself. Info at the a href="http://www.team-tentakulus.de/"Team Tentakulus/a website is in German and that’s somehow appropriate as this is Der Götterdämmerung of bikes - ride this to school and even the meekest nerd will command instant respect./p h4Art Dekochari/h4 pimg title="mod_bicycles_12a" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_12a.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_12a" height="348" width="468" span style="font-size:xx-small"(image via: a href="http://m0ddie.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/do-you-think-its-too-much/"M0d Schm0d/a)/span/p pJapanese kids have been doing up their bikes dekochari-style for decades, and they’ve got it down to - literally - a fine art. a href="http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/tonymcnicol/gallery-show/G0000VM.qgHuUDd8"Dekochari/a (deko = decoration, chari = bicycle) involves pimping a bike to the max, often to the point where it’s hard to know where the decoration ends and the bike begins. Sheet metal, lights (and lots of them), wild paint jobs and even chromed bumpers make the wildest dekochari bikes look like shrunken semi-trailers. Which is the idea, actually./p pimg title="mod_bicycles_12b" src="http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mod_bicycles_12b.jpg" alt="mod_bicycles_12b" height="490" width="468"span style="font-size:xx-small"(images via: a href="http://m0ddie.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/do-you-think-its-too-much/"M0d Schm0d/a and a href="http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/01/japanese-art-bi.html"Telstar Logistics/a)/span/p pHere’s a video of dekochari bikes after dark, backed up musically by “Ichiban-boshi Blues� (by Bunta Sugawara and Kinya Aikawa). This theme song from the Torakku Yarou movie series helped ignite Japan’s dekochari craze way back in the 1970s:/p pa href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-A_6x9_Goamp;feature=player_embedded"Dekochari, via Pink Tentacle/a/p pBicycles are looking better than ever in more ways than one. In fact, compared to gas guzzling, bailout bankrupted, ever more expensive automobiles, their appeal has never been more timely. Even so, a little (or a lot) of artistic customizing just makes a good thing better. 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There are a few venues in the Bay Area that you can actually ride some of the bicycles featured in this article. The Maker Faire, Tour de Fat to name a couple that are well documented.

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blockquoteShared by Duane br so, NOT picking up the dog poo might be better for the urban environment?/blockquote pDesigner a href="http://andrearoman.4ormat.com/"Andrea Roman/a partnered with VagoLab, Manuel Rimada amp; Gilberto González on a href="http://andrearoman.4ormat.com/illogical"a new concept in dog food/a./ppimg title="dog-food-seeds" src="http://dog-milk.com/images/2011/09/dog-food-seeds.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="492"/ppWhat if your dog’s waste could literally end up smelling like flowers? What if it could help the environment? They came up with the idea food create dog food that contains seeds so that when your dog goes to the bathroom on grass or soil, it plants seeds that grow into flowers. strongWhat do you think of this idea? /strong/ppThis project was published in a href="http://www.illogicalquestions.com/comentar.php?post=323"illogicalquestions.com/a./phrbShare This:/b a title="Tweet This" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading%20Pushing%20Up%20Daisies%20with%20Dog%20Poo%20on%20@dog_milk:%20http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/"Twitter/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/amp;title=Pushing%20Up%20Daisies%20with%20Dog%20Poo" title="Share this on Facebook"Facebook/a | Don't forget that you can follow Dog Milk on a href="http://twitter.com/dog_milk"Twitter/a and a href="http://www.facebook.com/dogmilk"Facebook/a.hr small© 2011 a href="http://dog-milk.com"Dog Milk/a | Posted by Jaime in a href="http://dog-milk.com/category/dining/" title="View all posts in Dining" rel="category tag"Dining/a, a href="http://dog-milk.com/category/green/" title="View all posts in Green" rel="category tag"Green/a | a href="http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/"Permalink/a | a href="http://dog-milk.com/pushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo/#comments"No comments/a/smallpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/4t82m7t07ntl0vjqqigqd4qnp0/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Fdog-milk.com%2Fpushing-up-daisies-with-dog-poo%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dog-milk/~4/5fVYQGPltuM" height="1" width="1" so, NOT picking up the dog poo might be better for the urban environment?

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blockquoteShared by Duane br Archived internet archivists./blockquote p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589410/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army1.jpg" border="0"/abr Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589410/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p pIn my scan of new Richmond District photos on Flickr last week, I came across some strange ones of statues sitting in the pews of a a href="http://archive.org"Internet Archive/a sanctuary. The IA moved their headquarters into the church at Clement and Funston in early 2010./p pThe photographer, a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/"Evan Carroll/a, was attending a conference at the IA recently when he took the pics. I asked him what those figures in the pews were and he replied:/p piBrewster Kahle, the director [of the Internet Archive], explained that it was his idea to create Terracotta Archivists after he saw the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army"Terracotta Army/a [in China]. If you work for the IA for 3 years they have a statue made in your resemblance and add it to the collection. I only photographed a few, but I remember somewhere around 30 in the building./i/p pForever immortalized in terra cotta! Definitely a little odd but I suppose it’s better than getting a gold watch or a gumball machine (which I got for hitting 5 years at my last company). Creepy or cool?/p pSarah B./p p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589960/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army2.jpg" border="0"/abr Terra cotta figures sit in the back row of the sanctuary. Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589960/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p p/pcentera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589752/in/photostream/"img src="http://richmondsfblog.com/images/army3.jpg" border="0"/abr Photo by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15140142@N03/5477589752/in/photostream/"Evan Carroll/a/centerp/p div style="text-align:right;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"a href="http://richmondsfblog.com/2011/03/03/army-of-terracotta-archivists-growing-at-the-internet-archive/?pfstyle=wp" style="text-decoration:none;outline:none;color:#000000"img src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button-both.gif" alt="PrintFriendly"/a/divpiframe src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~ah/f/9r1c1p2m71rth2bvlmkak1v4bg/300/250?ca=1amp;fh=280#http%3A%2F%2Frichmondsfblog.com%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Farmy-of-terracotta-archivists-growing-at-the-internet-archive%2F" width="100%" height="280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"/iframe/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/richmondsfblog/~4/L04yirDL6BM" height="1" width="1" Archived internet archivists.

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pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/devilangel.jpg" alt=""Music used to be so simple. You listened to it on the radio for free, but you didn’t get to say what would be played, and there were lots of commercials. If you went to a concert, you paid. And if you bought a record, tape or CD, you paid. People copied CDs to cassette tapes and passed them on to friends. That was just about as far as P2P music piracy got. Stealing music was when you shoplifted a CD or cassette from the record store, and it was pretty clearly understood that it was “wrong.�/p pMaybe that’s why so many people who are older than say 30 think that downloading music is ethically wrong. They remember that music is something that you pay for. They still download the music, of course. But they know they’re doing something they shouldn’t be doing./p pBut if you’ve discovered and come to love music in the last decade, I don’t see how you can be expected to know when listening to recorded music is ok, and when it’s wrong. /p pLet’s put the law aside for a moment - this post is about emdoing the right thing/em. We’ve been hammered with messaging from the government and the music labels that downloading or listening to music on the Internet is stealing, unless you pay for it. We see the video clips before movies at the cinema saying its wrong. We read about lawsuits against twelve year olds for downloading music from BitTorrent. Our government is even willing to a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/28/russia-agrees-to-us-request-to-shut-down-allofmp3com/"threaten other sovereign nations/a over music piracy. /p pBut over the last few years the line has blurred to the point where there really isn’t any line any more. We can listen to free, on demand streaming music at MySpace Music and lots of other sites. It’s ok to do it at MySpace, but it’s wrong to do it at Project Playlist, just because the right contracts aren’t in place? Just a couple of years ago anyone listening to free streaming music anywhere on the Internet was violating copyright and subject to being labeled unethical. Today, its no problem. And you don’t even have to listen to audio ads./p pBut downloading music, that’s still wrong, right? Nope. If you live in China, you can a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7972399.stm"download music/a legally from Google for free. No problem./p pAbove I said I wanted to put the law aside for a moment. Now I’ll come back to it. Because the law, and particularly the U.S. government’s willingness to perpetuate the absurdity of copyright law as it applies to recorded music, is all that the labels have left. No one in their right mind could formulate an argument that downloading music on the Internet is “wrong� at this point. All the labels have left is the law./p pEventually the reality of the Internet will force the laws to change, too. One way or another the a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/big-music-will-surrender-but-not-until-at-least-2011/"music labels will eventually surrender/a, and a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/the-inevitable-march-of-recorded-music-towards-free/"recorded music will be free/a./p pUntil it is, I refuse to feel guilty for downloading and sharing music. Every time I listen to a song, or share it with a friend, I’m doing the labels a favor. One that eventually I a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/22/these-crazy-musicians-still-think-they-should-get-paid-for-recorded-music/"should be paid for/a. Until that day comes, don’t even think about trying to tell me that I’m doing something ethically wrong when it’s considered quite legal, with the labels’ blessing, in China./p pstrongemCrunch Network/em/strong: a href="http://www.crunchgear.com"CrunchGear/aem /emdrool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware./p diva href="http://d.techcrunch.com/ck.php?n=a9e88cf5amp;cb=869"img src="http://d.techcrunch.com/avw.php?zoneid=13amp;n=a9e88cf5" alt="" border="0"/a/div pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/XBBJDaIRQ5d3f5PbPYt40aImaCg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Eat/XBBJDaIRQ5d3f5PbPYt40aImaCg/i" ismap border="0"/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:2mJPEYqXBVI"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:dnMXMwOfBR0"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:D7DqB2pKExk"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?i=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:7Q72WNTAKBA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?a=qkuOrnaMdJg:9B0c4sOtWFM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Eff/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/%7Er/Techcrunch/%7E4/qkuOrnaMdJg" height="1" width="1"

pWow. April Fools Is In full swing. /p pThe Guardian a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology"goes all Twitter/a, ditching the printed version and the website. em“Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.�/em/p pAmazon a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/03/up-up-and-away-cloud-computing-reaches-for-the-sky.html"launches/a a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazon Cloud Environment, or FACE. em“The FACE uses durable, unmanned helium-filled blimps with a capacity of 65,536 small EC2 instances, or a proportionate number of larger instances. The top of each blimp is coated in polycrystalline solar cells which supply approximately 40% of the power needed by the servers and the on-board navigation, communication, and defense systems. /emem“The government will have absolutely no chance of acting against them, because they will be too busy trying to decide which Federal Air Regulation (FAR) was violated, not to mention scheduling news conferences. “/em/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eng2.jpg" alt=""Meanwhile, Google masters artificial intelligence in a a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/cadie-awakens.html"post/a and a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html"description/a that’s way too geeky for me./p pBut they’ve created the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), which is a computer that’s come alive and is making changes at Google. em“Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this a href="http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/"intriguing homepage/a.�/em /p pAnother early project for Cadie: making a a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-google-chrome-with-3d.html"3D version of Google Chrome/a, since em“81% of households had red/blue 3D glasses lying around.�/em/p pThere’s no gentle way of putting this, but YouTube just a href="http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience"flails/a with upside down video viewing./p pGmail now has a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html"AutoPilot/a. “As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.� Cadie will respond for you./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/autopilot.png"/p pa href="http://www.google.com/mobile/m/brainsearch/intro_android.html"Google Brain Search/a uses CADIE technology to index your brain./p pGoogle Books is in on it too. See a href="http://books.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/tech.html"this monograph/a signed by the CADIE team for example./p pGoogle Australia introduces the a href="http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gball/"gBall/a, which will change Australian rules football as we know it./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/gball.png"/p pThere is also a a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKh4Jls3qA8amp;feature=channel_page"featured YouTube video/a of a panda by the user ‘cadiesingularity’ with a profile stating “Cadie - the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity�. /p pWhen browsing Street View in Google Maps, a panda is shown in the bottom right map instead of the yellow person usually shown./p pCADIE even has its a href="http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/"own blog on Blogger/a./p pThere is also a a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?f=qamp;ie=UTF8amp;moduleurl=http:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Flanding%2Fcadie%2Fdoc%2Fpanda-mapplet.xmlamp;ll=42.366662,-71.106262amp;spn=114.307001,316.40625amp;z=2"“CADIE’s recommended places for humans�/a link in Google Maps, which leads to the “Panda Mapplet� and includes several marked locations with “CADIE’s� commentary. Under Redmond WA a link is listed which will a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"rick roll the viewer/a./p pMeanwhile, a href="http://controlyourself.ca/2009/04/01/identica-acquires-twitter/"Identi.ca has acquired Twitter/a. A Twitter executive was quoted afterwards saying: “I was worried we were going to have to make a business out of that whole Twitter thing! I’m really glad it’s someone else’s problem now.�/p pGoogle is apparently also a href="http://webanalytics.ox2.eu/2009/03/31/google-launches-new-laptop-pc-with-telepathic-interface/?utm_source=blogamp;utm_medium=rssamp;utm_content=Google%20launches%20new%20laptop%20PC%20-%20with%20telepathic%20interface%21"building a new $100 laptop/a together with Alienware (Dell). It will have a built-in brain wave reading chip, with sensors that need to be applied onto the user’s skull./p pScientists at CERN have a href="http://gegeo.org/bigbang.htm"found the cell that basically triggered the Big Bang/a./p pThe Pirate Bay a href="http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-acquires-the-pirate-bay-090401/"sells out to Warner Bros/a./p pThere’s a new social network for your nose, a friendspace for your fragrance, a place to share your opinions on perfumes and vote for your favorite smells. They call it a href="http://www.smellr.com/"smellr/a and it’s online now./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smellr.png"/p pOpera has moved on from Mouse Gestures and comes out of the closet with a href="http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/"Face Gestures/a./p pThe entire Internet is a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/01/internet-reboot-today/"being rebooted/a. (SitePoint)/p pExpedia is offering a href="http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us"flights to Mars/a from $99. In related news, Hotels.com a href="http://www.hotels.co.uk/press/moon-rooms.html"offers rooms on the Moon/a./p pAdd a bit of shine to your website with a href="http://laminatr.com/"Laminatr/a./p pThis a href="http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/2009/03/31/announcing-landmark-jquery-plugin-that-will-alter-the-face-of-the-internet/"new Landmark jQuery plugin/a will alter the face of the internet./p pYahoo debuts a href="http://ycorpblog.com/2009/04/01/it-all-comes-down-to-ideology/"Ideological Search/a./p pSocial Media Use a href="http://www.jesseliebman.com/2009/03/31/study-social-media-use-decreases-customer-satisfaction/"Decreases Customer Satisfaction/a./p pThis a href="http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=2851"brand new mobile phone/a works as either a coin-operated or credit/debit card mobile./p pBBC’s Top Gear show a href="http://njection.com/blogs/exclusive/archive/2009/03/31/bbc-top-gear-to-stream-show-on-hulu-ad-supported.aspx"comes to Hulu/a./p pWoopra takes its Web Analytics suite up a notch and launches a a href="http://www.woopra.com/blog/2009/03/31/announcing-woopras-new-webcam-enablement-feature/"webcam spy-feature for websites/a./p pWoot is a href="http://www.woot.com/"selling crap/a./p pReddit now looks a href="http://www.reddit.com/"competely like Digg/a (good one)./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/redigg.png"/p pWired: a href="http://www.wired.com/video/twitter-plans-to-make-money/18173818001"Twitter plans to make money/a. I’m gonna order that TW-900./p pTweetDoubler gives you a href="http://www.tweetdoubler.com/"twice the bird/a./p pTopify got a href="http://blog.topify.com/post/91465737/fighting-over-for-topify-updated-good-news-no-bad"sued by Fedex/a. em“Fedex claims they have a registered patent for delivering faster and better email notifications and they claim we have infringed it.�/em/p pFark now has its a href="http://www.fark.com/NFE/"own social network/a. It looks vaguely familiar./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/fark.png"/p pSocialBlade a href="http://socialblade.com/digg/algorithm.php"cracked Digg’s algorithm/a./p pa href="http://blog.vark.com/?p=32"Epistolary Aardvark for Offline Access!/a em“Until now, Aardvark could only be used via instant messenger or email to get answers to your questions within minutes. Through Aair Mail, you’ll be able to send questions via regular postal mail, just like you’d send a letter to a friend.�/em/p pSeacom has a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1719"wired the entire African continent/a, which now has the fastest internet connection in the world./p pa href="http://www.axecollegehumor.com/"AXECollegeHumor/a/p pLiveJournal has a a href="http://news.livejournal.com/114430.html"Friends Page redesign project/a./p pMicrosoft added support for a href="http://messengersays.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%215B410F7FD930829E%2165501.entry"automatic mood detection in Windows Live Messenger/a. em“We’re happy to announce that due to the great breakthroughs from Microsoft Research, we have an alpha version working that monitors your real-time physiological state and translates that into a mood (happy, sad, anxious, etc), such that you would never have to enter an emoticon again.�/em/p pWeb celebrities (including Michael Arrington) are spotted dancing together, and a href="http://benkoo.com/2009/03/31/jealous-of-wozniak-and-crippled-by-the-economy-tech-legends-join-the-chippendales-trend/"they got the video to prove it/a./p pThe BDFL, having shepherded Python development for 20 years, a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0401/"officially announces his retirement/a, effective immediately. Following a unanimous vote, his replacement is named (Barry Warsaw)./p pGoogle is rumored to be a href="http://palmwebos.org/2009/04/01/rumor-google-buying-palm/"acquiring Palm/a./p pFord, GM announce the a href="http://phandroid.com/2009/04/01/ford-gm-announce-android-car/"Android Car/a. It looks cool./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/android-car.png"/p pPrivacy campaigners throughout the UK have a href="http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/04/01/privacy-campaigners-u-turn-and-offer-support-for-phorm.html"unanimously decided/a to support Phorm./p pa href="http://www.dailycandy.com/aprilfools/?utm_source=emailamp;utm_medium=txt_linkamp;utm_campaign=aprilfools09"Daily Candy/a is doing their annual April Fools routine too./p pHow did we miss this one? CrunchGear was a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/01/general-mills-enters-tech-news-space-with-acquisition-of-crunchgear/"acquired by General Mills/a./p pJ.K. Rowling publishes Harry Potter eBooks on a href="http://www.smashwords.com/press/release/8"SmashWords/a./p pA a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23288/24312/txt-n-walk-mobile-app.phtml"new mobile phone application/a has launched that promises to let you see where you are going while you are looking at your phone. “Called TXT’N'WALK, the application, which is available on the iPhone, Blackberry, S60 and Android operating systems will use the camera found on the back of your phone to show you the pavement in front of you while you access your email or the web on your phone.� /p pQualcomm has outdone itself with the a href="http://www.qualcomm.com/innovation/convergence.html"Wireless Convergence/a project. This one is really good./p piframe src="http://reader.googleusercontent.com/reader/embediframe?src=http://www.youtube.com/v/3agYeT-T9co%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1amp;width=480amp;height=295" width="480" height="295"/iframe/p pTwitter limits tweets to a href="http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=279765"one a day/a./p pThere’s also a a href="http://mumbrella.com.au/revealed-secret-government-plan-to-tax-twitter-4194"secret government plan/a to tax Twitter. em“Mumbrella understands that the government is planning to tax Twitter users by the number of messages they send, at a rate of 1c per tweet. This will then be multiplied by the number of followers they have.�/em/p pWe think this is for April Fools, but we’re not sure: a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml"ThinkGeek/a is selling some cool stuff, including a ‘Unicorn Chaser’./p pAs of today all the newspapers, magazines and TV-channels using Twingly to link back to blogs also will a href="http://blog.twingly.com/2009/04/01/twingly-debuts-email-trackbacks-on-media-websites-all-over-europe/"show trackbacks to all emails containing links to their articles/a./p pFunny too: a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/"Bugmenot.com/a now requires registration for their services. Considering the fact their tagline is “Bypass Compulsory Registration�, that’s a good one./p pCafePress introduces the a href="http://blog.cafepress.com/2009/03/31/cafepress-o-pedia/?pid=2529374"CafePress-o-Pedia/a. /p pGet vocal with the new a href="http://www.fring.com/blog/?p=1033"Voice URL fring Add-on/a./p pMooTools is now called a href="http://mootools.net/blog/2009/04/01/a-new-name-for-mootools/"jTools/a./p pWell executed hoax: MOO.com announces the a href="http://www.moo.com/blog/2009/04/01/announcing-a-new-moo-business-card/"SUPER ECO FRIENDLY Business Card/a./p pThe purpose of the Conficker worm has been a href="http://www.webstandards.org/2009/04/01/purpose-of-conficker-worm-uncovered/"revealed/a: the network of compromised hosts will begin a massive denial-of-service attack on Web sites that do not pass validation as being fully standards-compliant./p pa href="http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3009"Bigfoot discovered in Windows 7./a/p pa href="http://newslite.tv/2009/04/01/ipods-get-heavier-with-more-mu.html"iPods get heavier with more music./a/p pa href="http://www.gizmotastic.com/2009/04/01/google-to-begin-unmanned-news-coverage/"Google News Drone/a: unmanned aircrafts will cover breaking news as it happens./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/google-news-drone.png"/p pEA and Gameloft’s a href="http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/iPhone+news/news.asp?c=12518"battle of the iPhone boobs/a./p pKanye West a href="http://musically.com/blog/2009/04/01/kanye-west-gives-up-music-for-full-time-blogging/"gives up music/a for full-time blogging. Oh noes./p pa href="http://massiveclouding.xness.com/"MassiveClouding/a is a new startup making internet surfers’s computers’ free memory and idle processing power leasable./p pFuelMyBlog will have to be a href="http://blog.fuelmyblog.co.uk/blog/2009/04/01/important-info-for-fuellers/"sub-divided into categories/a separating EU Bloggers from the rest of the world and probably sub-sub-categories so that, for instance Wales, Scotland, N. Ireland, North and South England will have their own niches, due to language and cultural differences. em“Apparently sub-divisions of other member states aren’t that important.�/em/p pThe British government has announced plans to provide children and teenagers living in the United Kingdom with a a href="http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/4/1/uk-government-distribute-one-million-nintendo-wii-consoles-2010/"free customised version of the Nintendo Wii/a together with two games and the Wii Fit accessories./p pAmiando has launched a a href="http://de.amiando.com/"dedicated Bavaria version/a of its ticketing service, complete with background music from the Munich Oktoberfest./p pa href="http://www.bountyhunters.fi/"This company/a’s mission is to track down software pirates who share video games illegally. They’re looking for new bounty hunters to join their team. em“If you can’t beat your enemies, beat your friends�/em/p pJust spotted on a href="http://digg.com"Digg/a: overlays featuring The Dude from the movie The Big Lebowski and many more./p pGoogle South-Africa is a href="http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1721"opening a theme park/a dubbed GOOG TOWN./p pHehe. a href="http://packed.com/blog/2009/04/01/packing-flash-games-with-a-new-dimension/"Packed3D/a is capable of taking an existing compiled flash game, and turn it into a fully functional 3D game. The video actually looks quite cool./p pa href="http://blog.adegga.com/adeggacom-buys-corkdcom/"Adegga.com acquires Corkd.com/a/p pAll French-made and French language films will shortly be a href="http://www.lovefilm.com/features/detail.html?section_name=editorialamp;editorial_id=10988"removed from the LOVEFiLM service/a./p pBoris from TheNextWeb has launched a a href="http://twitter.com/Boris/status/1430407943"TwitterFax service/a. em“Fax any text (max 140 chars) to +31877848484 including Twitter username+password and it will post. Test it now!�/em/p pWe emthink/em this is a joke: a href="http://www.shouttr.net/"Shouttr/a, currently in an alpha-development stage, is a program that lets you post and read tweets others much like any other Twitter client. But it will also a href="http://en.onsoftware.com/shouttr-a-noisy-step-too-far-for-twitter/"read aloud tweets/a for you as they arrive./p pNewgrounds has been a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/"taken over/a by the Chinese government./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/newgrounds.png"/p peBay put Skype on iPhone a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/skype_nsa_backdoor_iphone_deal/"‘to boost price of NSA backdoor’/a/p pa href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-eagle-eyes-leaked/"Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked/a/p pFacebook announced yesterday an innovative partnership with telecom operators to a href="http://blog.quintarelli.it/blog/2009/04/facebook-in-revenue-sharing-con-gli-operatori-.html"reward heavy users with free bandwidth upgrades/a./p pa href="http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/04/01/the-grama-eco-vehicle-comes-with-green-roof/"The Grama Eco Vehicle Comes With A Green Roof!/a/p pa href="http://www.xihalife.com/"XIHA Life/a has acquired an island./p pThe BBC’s iPlayer is now a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/04/bbc_iplayer_now_available_on_a.html"available on a toaster/a./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bbc-iplayer-toaster.png"/p pFrom a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/03/queens-corgi-tracker.html"Google Maps Mania/a: em“Top of the latest additions to the Queen’s website is this Corgi Tracker. The Queen owns five Corgis and now her loyal subjects can view their every movement thanks to this Google Map real-time tracker.�/em/p pa href="http://www.slideshare.net/"SlideShare/a is faking the number of views for slideshows uploaded to the service./p pThe Google Sightseeing website morphed into the a href="http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/04/01/welcome-to-the-brand-new-ordnance-survey-sightseeing-site/"Ordnance Survey Sightseeing site/a./p pa href="http://www.cadyou.com/"Cadyou.com/a is proud to announce its first, free Sketchup plugin “Scanr�. In development for the 3 months, this plugin will allow you to use any optical mouse as a simple 3d scanner, enabling small objects to be scanned directly into the Sketchup software./p p“When print publications started to lose circulation, we saw a golden opportunity to marry investors interested in saving newspapers with unused time on presses to bring you a new edition: a href="http://thedigitel.com/top-stories/thedigitel-launches-new-print-edition-3564-0401"TheDigitel.print./a�/p pa href="http://www.whoishostingthis.com/amazon-ec3-truecloud/"Amazon EC3 TrueCloud/a/p pGoogle has a href="http://www.mark8t.com/2009/04/01/google-buys-mark8t-and-creates-seo-e-marketing-division/"acquired Mark8t/a./p pa href="http://www.nerdyshirts.com/invisible-shirt.html"NerdyShirts/a has an invisible T-shirt on sale. em“It uses a fabric which bends light to render it virtually invisible. Get the warmth and comfort of a shirt without having to see it.�/em/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/invisible-shirt.png"/p pServiceSideKick has a a href="http://www.servicesidekick.com/blog/posts/27-new-ceo"new CEO/a./p pWhiteLabelDating.com has debuted a a href="http://www.whitelabeldating.com/blog/2009/04/puppy-love-has-never-been-sweeter.php"new dog dating site/a today. The site already has 20,000 adult dogs registered and expects strong continued growth. /p pWashington Post: a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/conficker_worm_strikes_militar.html"Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In/a/p pa href="http://www.mywebdownload.com/"MyWebDownload/a lets you download the WWW./p pHowStuffWorks is running some funny articles. Example: a href="http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/04/01/chew-on-this-rechargeable-gum/"Chew On This: Rechargeable Gum/a/p pistopover.com has a a href="http://istopover.com/listings/1428"bailout special/a: stay in the White House for $49 a night./p pLululemon unveiled its a href="http://www.lululemon.com/shop/"brand new e-commerce website/a today, very slick!/p pPSS introduces a href="http://ivr-smartass.psshelp.com/"lie-detecting call center software/a./p pMicrosoft launches a new game for the Xbox: a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/a/alpinelegend/"Alpine Legend/a/p pa href="http://gizmodo.com/"Gizmodo/a is making its headlines read like spam messages today./p pThe Tech Herald: a href="http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200914/3354/CERN-admits-black-hole-ripped-in-space-by-Large-Hadron-Collider"CERN admits black hole ripped in space by Large Hadron Collider/a/p pGood stuff! Kodak a href="http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2355464amp;mode="introduces/a the a href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/6868amp;pq-locale=en_USamp;_requestid=355"eyeCamera 4.1/a today./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eyecamera.png"/p pa href="http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2009/04/01/the-string-or-the-cat-a-new-net-framework-library.aspx"The String or the Cat: A New .NET Framework Library/a/p pInforWorld: a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/04/01/13NF-Twitter-April-Fools_1.html"Twitter added to federal emergency response network/a/p pAdvertiseSpace: a href="http://www.advertisespace.com/2009/04/01/google-buys-twitter-for-635-million/"Google To Acquire Twitter for $635 million in Stock/a/p p“Aviary is proud to announce that it has launched its newest product, a href="http://aviary.com/blog/posts/aviary-launches-crane-paper-editor"Crane/a, the web’s first paper-based image editor.�/p pTrackVia today announced the launch of their new a href="http://www.trackvia.com/blog/2009/04/01/trackvia-announces-data-randomizer-feature/"Data Randomizer feature/a. em“Designed for customers who are bored with their same-old, same-old data, the Data Randomizer injects spontaneity and hilarity into data management tasks by randomly changing unknown fields in unknown records.�/em/p pOtherInbox announces a href="http://blog.otherinbox.com/2009/04/oib-announces-othervoicemail.html"OtherVoicemail/a img src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" /p pHere is the JS-Word commenting widget mentioned above. One word only, please!/p pJS-KIT introduces a href="http://js-kit.com/1word/"JS-Word/a as a one-word commenting system. “We are, in essence, democratizing social media to the lowest common denominator. Groups of like-minded users can even collaborate to put a sentence together.� (we put one here but took it off because it consumed too much space)/p pa href="http://www.bailoutlove.com/"BailoutLove.com/a is a government sponsored online dating service that helps scorned CEOs find true love./p pThe infamous Fail Whale has a href="http://patdryburgh.net/blog/tragedy/"come to pass/a./p pOrganic is hiring a a href="http://threeminds.organic.com/2009/04/position_available_sr_contribu.html"Senior Re-Tweeter/a./p pMr. Tweet helps you find your perfect date by a href="http://blog.mrtweet.net/sneak-peek-mrtweet-to-help-you-find-your-prefect-date-based-on-analyzing-your-tweetstream"analyzing your ‘tweetstream’/a./p pIf only it were that easy: “FireFold has developed a very complex and unique application which a href="http://www.firefold.com/ProductFool.aspx?ProductId=4451amp;CategoryId=1105"uses your existing hardware to create an HDMI Cable/a. Complete the app installation and just place your phone’s screen directly on top of the HDMI Port. Bingo!�/p pThe domain name for a href="http://www.cardschat.com/home.php"Cardschat/a has been seized by Governor Beshear and the Kentucky State Department of Justice as part of an investigation into internet gambling, and is now the sole property of the State of Kentucky./p pThe Echo Nest is a href="http://blog.echonest.com/post/91934467/the-echo-nest-goodness-api"unveiling a new API/a that solves the problem of music discovery, once and for all. em“The Goodness API applies the company’s advanced web crawling, language processing and audio analysis platform to help music fans everywhere separate music worth listening to from music that should be avoided.�/em/p pWikipedia had true news stories on its site which it presented in a href="http://thewikipedian.net/2009/04/01/april-fools-or-not/"dubious language/a./p pPlurk a href="http://blog.plurk.com/2009/04/01/plurk-to-relaunch-as-bitter/"relaunches as Bitter/a./p p5min.com is moving to India, and they have an a href="http://www-techcrunch.com/HowTo_Platform_Company_wide_Outsourcing_to_India.htm"interesting approach of letting people know/a. Doesn’t that site look really familiar?/p pHubSpot has launched the a href="http://personality.grader.com"Personality Grader/a./p pStarTech mentions something about a href="http://www.startech.com/TechLounge/View.aspx?MID=469"invisible cables/a./p pWired: a href="http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/"Geek Dad becomes Jock Dad/a./p pFunny: Box.net has a href="http://www.getchirping.com/"launched a nano-blogging service/a for businesses./p pThanks to new cross-species breeding techniques, we know have the a href="http://www.dogster.com/newsletter/index.php?i=131"PuppyCat/a./p pa href="http://www.smosh.com/videos/levar-burton-buys-smosh"LeVar Burton buys Smosh./a/p pa href="http://misc.metocube.com/mc/element/view-web/Mass+gremlin+production+and+delivery"Mass gremlin production and delivery/a/p p“Book lovers everywhere have resisted digital books because they still don’t compare to the experience of reading a good old fashioned paper book. But all of that is changing thanks to a href="http://smellofbooks.com/"Smell of Books™/a, a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer.�/p pThe Official Accuweater Super Doppler 9000 Compu Plus Plus a href="http://forecastronic.com/"Forecastronic/a/p pWeb2Ireland now has a a href="http://www.web2ireland.org/2009/04/01/announcing-web2ireland-e10m-seed-fund/"€10m seed fund/a/p pFunnyOrDie morphed into a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/"RebaOrDie/a/p pMentel has a funny job opening for a a href="http://www.workopolis.com/EN/job/10718932"Junior General Manager/a./p pDidn’t you know? Apple is now selling a href="http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-can-finally-talk-about-my-apple.html"branded microwave ovens/a./p pToshiba launched the a href="http://explore.toshiba.com/petbook"PetBook K9/a./p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/petbook.png"/p pa href="http://www.tribune.com/"Tribune Company/a today announced detailed plans to introduce a high-power, low-cost communications device designed to make all media, including the Internet, obsolete by next year./p pImeem launches a href="http://www.imeem.com/top10lists/playlist/9eLpFL2A/top-10-songs-with-smell-music-playlist/"scratch and sniff feature/a. em“You can now assign a long list of assorted smells to songs and playlists.�/em/p pChegg debuts a href="http://www.chegg.com/textalicious/"edible textbooks in 21 delicious flavors/a./p p“For $199, you will be able to purchase a a href="http://www.dandyid.org/blog/?p=356"“spit test� kit/a directly from your DandyID dashboard. The kit contains a saliva swab, instructions, and discreet, postage-paid, padded mailer. You simply collect a sample of your DNA by swabbing the inside of your cheek, place the sample in the included protective plastic tube, and drop it in the mail to be sent back to Barakhamba. In 10 to 12 weeks DandyID will receive a digital representation of your DNA genotype, which will then be tied to your account.�/p pIn a surprise move, Redbox has announced that they will a href="http://www.insideredbox.com/redbox-to-offer-movie-streaming-service-compete-with-netflix/"start offering a movie streaming service/a later this month./p pCitySpeek raised its a href="http://www.cityspeek.com/blog/2009/03/cityspeek-takes-first-round-of-funding/"first round of funding/a./p p“Pk Prnt is the latest in mobile messaging technology from a href="http://www.getpeek.com/"Peek/a.�/p pimg src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pk-prnt.png"/p pZappos is now equipped with a href="http://blogs.zappos.com/blogs/inside-zappos/2009/04/01/bunkdesks"bunk-desks/a./p pa href="http://blog.cotweet.com/2009/04/guy-kawasaki-joins-cotweet-advisory-board-company-rebrands-as-kawtweet/"Guy Kawasaki Joins CoTweet Advisory Board; Company Rebrands as KawTweet/a/p pVerizon launches new advertising campaign, introduces a href="http://www.soveryverizon.com/"new look/a/p pCoolspotters: a href="http://coolspotters.com/musicians/justin-timberlake/and/clothing/members-only-liquid-leggings#medium-53700"Justin Timberlake and Members Only Liquid Leggings/a/p pArcticStartup: a href="http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/04/01/a-joint-group-of-european-blogs-launches-a-micro-fund/"MicroFundr, First Pan-European VC Fund, Will Use Twitter For Funding Process/a/p pLive Search got rebranded to a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2009/04/01/the-new-brand-has-arrived-drum-roll-please.aspx"“MSN Windows Live Search on kumo@microsoft.com�/a/p pThe Register: a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/01/watch_out_london/"Google to fund ‘video Street View’ for Central London/a/p pGoogle a href="http://heliumblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/helium-purchased-by-google/"acquired Helium/a./p pBlizzard Entertainment posted a href="http://www.blizzard.com/us/"some funny news items/a./p pPingdom launched a href="http://www.saveie6.com/"SaveIE6.com/a./p p“The Symfony team is pleased to announce its latest contribution to the open source community, the a href="http://www.symfony-project.org/blog/2009/04/01/introducing-the-symfony-service-exploder"Symfony Service Exploder/a. When run, this script “explodes� your application by creating a unique service class for every line.�/p pihateclowns.com has closed down the site due to pressure from clown lovers around the word. Details are a href="http://iloveclowns.com"here/a./p pBarack Obama a href="http://www.speeddate.com/blog/?p=95"got kicked off SpeedDate.com/a/p pa href="http://www.funambol.com/news/pressrelease_2009.4.1.php"Funambol Unveils World’s First Touchless iCar/a/p pNational Geographic announced the publication of its newest title, a href="http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2009/04/new-title-from-national-geogra.html"National Geographic: The Best of the Breasts./a A snippet from the press release: “Finally, a compendium of all of our stellar breastbr photography has been culled from our 126-year history. It’s a celebration of the female body in its most honest form.� …/p pa href="http://ToolKing.com"Tool King/a is offering a $4010.90 Luxury Louis Vuitton Cordless Drill (covered in genuine Swarovski crystals and fine Italian calfskin leather), biodegradable framing nails, pre-filtered air compressor air refills, and the Millwallki M040109 @Home Endoscopic Kit./p pDirxion launched the a href="http://blogs.dirxion.com/index.php/2009/04/01/dirxion-launches-the-upload-go-3000/"“Upload amp; Go 3000,�/a which state-of-the art-technology to “convert your printed publication to digital format in the blink of an eye!�/p pMore as they come in. 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