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Make has also changed my life as well as the lives of all those readers who spend their weekends tinkering in their garages making anything from wooden cars to mp3 players.
Today it led me to a guy who worked out a simple way to heat his garage with some wood, cans and plexiglas.

Whilst mathematics tells us that there are more than 2 Trillion Methods of feeding a lace through the six pairs of eyelets on an average shoe, this site presents a (somewhat more realistic) typical cross-section of traditional and alternative lacing methods that I’ve either found or created or that have been sent to me by [...]

Iain finally compiled the final “10 Reasons why Digital is Better than Advertising” on Crackunit

Here are some pictures from the Hulger installations at the Furniture Fair in in Milan last week.

Elle (France) ran a three page article on Colette’s 10th anniversary. As part of the article Elle list the twenty most interesting things to happen over that period and it looks like HULGER made it into the list.

Phorm, Springfield, USA – A Warning to Designers
This is a warning to all designers or companies to think twice before working with Trent Schaible of Phorm in Springfield, USA. Phorm Fit Living or PhormFitLiving is their site. It’s a nice site, just a shame they don’t seem to want to pay for what they sell.
Having [...]

At POKE we have told clients right from the start that they can’t lie to consumers any more, especially not on the web. It’s better for them to do interesting things honestly so people like them, tell their friends about them and don’t later stumble across some uncomfortable truths that might undermine the whole exercise. [...]

Anther example of Adam Buxton’s comedy that has translated remarkably well from TV to web. Thinking back though the Adam and Joe show was always a bunch of great Youtube clips that just happened to be on TV. Interesting to see how when the rules change some things are favoured over others, evolution i suppose [...]

The people’s vote was designed to turbo charge word of mouth about the awards as nominees scramble to tell friends, clients, readers, shoppers to drop what they’re doing and head to the people’s vote page. So please head to said page and vote for our projects, Amex RED and ZOPA.

The TED videos have been mentioned here and there quite a lot already. I’ve just been through some of them and they really are great. Just saw the zefrank one followed by Jeff Bezos who after all these years I still hadn’t seen speak (always on the front of magazines but never moving). Put a [...]

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My STREET STYLE groups is still pumping on Flickr. If you see any street-freaks please send them to this group.

I went back to my Stubledupon account to fill out some details and took the Jungean Personality Test. Here it is. For those who know me you probably won’t be surprised. I’m interested to see how personality peer alignment effects the recommendations I am given. Maybe it won’t.

INTP - “Architect”. Greatest precision [...]

Thrillingwonder present some nice rubbery visualisations of global imbalances. (the one above is toy consumption)