This USB typewriter is just brilliant. The fact that it can also function as a typewriter so that if you want to write on paper and then have a computer copy is a beautiful thing. Thanks to Jon Freestone for sending a link to this beauty my way.
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During that period between when they close the airplane doors and when you reach cruising altitude and can turn on portable electronic devices, I skim the airline magazine. On the bottom left corner of a page was a mini-article about the Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF5.0 It’s a digital camera version of the traditional 1920’s Rollei. You
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I’m just not going to plunk down $4500 for this 1800’s Folding Bed but ooooo I wants it.
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While looking for something else entirely, I stumbled upon this ebay auction for aAntique Steam Pulley Driven Workshop with Lights. Good heavens. It’s got a lathe, jig saw, drill… It’s like a steampunk Shopsmith, but it’s real.
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Kako Ueda does startling works of cut paper. That’s right, the image below is not drawn; all the red stuff is cut out of a piece of paper. Astounding, eh, what a sharp knife can do.
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There’s a beautiful, virtual gallery of hand puppets here. The characters are so clear that it’s easy to imagine the stories they come from. Can’t you just almost hear them speak?
Click through, and if you don’t just faint from sheer longing to be in one of these libraries then you clearly aren’t a reader. Or you are already in one and jealous-making.
You might remember my cat, Maggie? A couple of years ago, she had a hyperactive thyroid. The treatment involved Iodine131 and we got this handout which said, “Upon release from the hospital, your pet will be mildly radioactive.” Despite my fond hopes, Maggie never glowed in the dark. But, thanks to modern science, there are
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Oh my heavens. Look at the beautiful paper work that Paper Forest found. The whole collection is stunning and interesting, both as fashion (Rob loves it) and as cut paper art. In the photos of the catwalk, the last series shows the models tearing the dresses off. On the one hand, I wince, but on