January 2009
47 posts
Nicolas Feltron has released his annual... →
WatchA New Day Dawning Mix from 8Tracks
The Daily Mail has just risen in my opinion for... →
Microprinter
Maker extraordinaire Tom Taylor has knocked up this sweet Microprinter to print out his daily agenda, emails, weather, that sort of thing.
These thermal printers, the kind in most shops, can be picked up for under £30 and wih a bit of coding jiggery-pokery you can have something similar to this in your own home. Tom has kindly chucked the code up on his site so stop being a lazy bastard and get...
“today two Black girls will call the white house home
and a Black woman has...”
– Kevin Coval: The Chance To Change
POLAROID LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! →
“I’m Merlin, and I make my living at sea, catching wild dolphin fish and tracking...”
– Merlin Mann’s Flickr profile
emptyage:
Do you ever wonder if Steve Jobs, Fidel Castro, and Kim Jong Il all see the same doctor?
Sweet Cross Stitch
Cross stitch is pretty awesome is my opinion. It takes ages but always looks impressive. That’s not stictly true - in fact most times it’s of some god awful twee countryside scene that looks wank. However the following examples are mint.
These beauties are from Subversive Cross Stitch
This is my current fave - read more about it here
That’s right… fucking Zelda....
Transit map overlay for Google Maps - my map geek... →
Fuck driving cars into walls in slow motion to see... →
“Compositionally, Bird takes simple melodies and gradually extends them into...”
– Author Jonathan Mahler (“Ladies and Gentleman, The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City”, “The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power”) recently spent some time with Andrew to create a profile of...
German sweethearts hatch plan to elope to Africa
Seen on the brilliant Gadling website
Amongst all the depressing stories in the world, this one brought a big smile to my face. It’s the story of 2 German kids, Mika and Anna-Lena, aged 7 and 6. The two are very much in love, and decided to skip all the expensive and time consuming work involved with a big wedding and just elope to Africa.
Read the rest here.
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Northline
I recently finished reading Willy Vlautin’s second novel Northline. I read his debut The Motel Life last year and loved his minimalist style.
Northline is the bleak story of Allison Johnson and her struggles finding her way in life. Fleeing her trapped existance in Las Vegas she leaves behind her skinhead -ympathising boyfriend Jimmy Brodie, turning to her Paul Newman to help her through...
Gmail User Pities Hotmail User
OLYMPIA, WA—Recent Gmail convert William Ramsak, 23, said Monday that his “heart goes out to” friend Kelly Oldenburg, who still sends e-mail through an MSN Hotmail account. “I feel so bad for you, needing to squeeze into 250 MB of storage space,” Ramsak wrote to Oldenburg in an e-mail. “And I hate thinking of you sorting all your old e-mail, while Gmail...
Build, CRAFT, hack, play, MAKE... in Newcastle →
Make magazine is bringing its Maker Faire to Newcastle in March. I guessing there will be robos there… therefore I will be going.
“Dear 2009, don’t be offended if I accidentally refer to you as...”
– wellmedicated
Resolutions
With 2009 rolling on like that unstoppable truck in Duel I thought it best to outline my resolutions for the new year. According to pretty much every GTD advocate, writing things down is the best way you can commit to something, so here we go. 1. More Photography – being a bit of a camera nut (although not to the crazy levels of a certain Gerard McHugh) I would like to get more pictures taken in...