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October152008
Ralph Lauren Rugby - Rugby Finds: Ponoko’s Photomake - Rugby.com
Rugby’s healthy obsession with self expression doesn’t stop with fashion, so when we heard about Ponoko’s Photomake, a web-based tool that transforms ideas in your head into actual, real-life things that you can pick up and play with, we had to investigate. It turns out you don’t need to connect a USB cable to your brain to make it all happen. What you do need is a Sharpie, a piece of paper, a digital camera and a computer. Draw your idea, take a photo of it, email the photo to Ponoko, and they’ll make it for you (with lasers!). The “WOW!” factor on this one cannot be expressed within the confines of this font. We love the earrings pictured above, but there’s no need to stop there. We are looking into our future and we are seeing skull-and-crossbones coasters, Rugby kicker mobiles, a Rugby jigsaw puzzle… . The only limit is your imagination. Check out a how-to video below.
via Kottke :: Peter Nencini: Modulex
legos for grownups. can you say Fröbel blocks?
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/studying_the_creation_of_kindergarten
Tags: /Fröbel /legos /grownups /kindergarten /kottke
For much of the time Mr. McCain was on the attack, Mr. Obama just sat there absorbing the blows as if wearing body armor. Which, in a sense, he was, in the form of a double-digit lead in national polls.—John M. Broder
But within moments, Mr. McCain’s irritation that he was sharing the stage with his younger rival seemed to get the better of him. He clenched his jaw, grinned mirthlessly and seemed unsettled.—Elisabeth Bumiller
From his opening question of the night, “I will ask both of you: Why is your plan better than his?” until the parting line he borrowed from his mother, “Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong,” Mr. Schieffer was a refreshing and plainspoken stream who finally got Senators Barack Obama and John McCain to talk to one another.—Jeff Zeleny
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— First Impressions on the Last Debate - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
I am not going to behave myself.
—M. Guerrand-Hermès, a socialite and polo player who celebrates his 37th birthday on Sunday, grabbed the captain’s crotch, according to the complaint, which was sworn out by Thomas O’Grady, an F.B.I. special agent."
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Hermès Heir Accused of Interfering With Flight - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com
Mr. Guerrand-Hermès had combined a prescription aspirin-like drug, Propofan, with “quite a bit of alcohol” and started behaving strangely about three and a half hours into the flight, according to a law enforcement official and a criminal complaint, which charges him with a single count of interfering with flight crew members.
The crime for which he has been charged carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison if he is convicted. But under federal sentencing guidelines, Mr. Guerrand-Hermès faces from zero to six months in prison as long as he has no previous criminal history.
Do us a favor, will you?
Are you interested in learning to knit? Are you interested in honing your knitting skillz? Are you interested in learning more about diophantine equations? Are you interested in learning wackass stitch combinations, garment knitting, or trying your hand at the psycho cabling and ribbing that Pinkie delivers? Now’s your chance. Collectively, we’ve been charged with 30 hours of teaching toward official certification with Craft Yarn Council of America. If you’d like to learn more, please contact us at the usual email.
(Alex Chow’s scarf, pictured above, is totally unreproducible. It’s silk, mohair, and stainless steel. Don’t ask us to teach you how to make one…it took both of us to finish this one. Photo by Aubrey Edwards.)
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‘Wires and Lights in a Box,’ Fifty Years Later - TV Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com »
Today is the 50th anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s seminal address about radio and television. Now known as the “wires and lights in a box” speech, Mr. Murrow implored the attendees at the Radio and Television News Directors Association convention to make the most of the two electronic media, rather than allowing them to insulate Americans “from the realities of the world in which we live.”
In Defense of Ayers :: Inside Higher Ed »
William Ayers has been trashed by conservative pundits and labeled “an unrepentant domestic terrorist” by Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, but the University of Illinois at Chicago professor has garnered the support of a growing number of peers who admire his scholarship and see the attacks on him as an affront to academic freedom.
Ayers, who helped found a Vietnam-era protest group that was blamed for bombing government buildings, has been a faculty member at Illinois-Chicago since 1987. In a statement signed by faculty members across the country, professors have spoken out against “the demonization” of Ayers, whose alleged ties to the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama have made headlines.
“It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans,” reads the statement, which was posted on www.supportbillayers.org. “His participation in political activity 40 years ago is history; what is most relevant now is his continued engagement in progressive causes, and his exemplary contribution — including publishing 16 books — to the field of education.”
Tags: /university of illinois-chicago /william ayers /in defense of william ayers
— Poster Policy Unites Obama and McCain Supporters :: Inside Higher Ed
Tags: /ut /posters /free speech /student rights /university of texas /austin
Then/now - From Wasteland to Parkland Along the Hudson - NYTimes.com »
cool sliding effect for the article images.
Austrian Symbolist Artist Who Mapped the Shadowy Corners of the Subconscious - NYTimes.com »
Mapping the Shadowy Corners of the Subconscious
Photograph Courtesy of Alfred Kubin/Neue Galerie, New York
“Earth: Mother of Us All” by the Austrian artist Alfred Kubin, in the first exhibition devoted to him in a United States museum. More Photos
By KAREN ROSENBERG
The Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) began his career just as Freud released “The Interpretation of Dreams.” Accordingly, the Neue Galerie’s “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909” is replete with the terrors of the freshly analyzed psyche. Monsters, demons and mythical beasts roam free; humans abandon themselves to bestial impulses. Done in black-and-white pen, ink and spray on heavy paper used for cartography, Kubin’s drawings map the shadowy corners of the unconscious.
Tags: /Alfred Kubin /drawings /subconscious /Symbolist /Klimt /Odilon Redon /Max Klinger /Félicien Rops /Gogol /Dostoyevsky /Poe /Schopenhauer /Nietzsche
