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One of the few designs from Dror that I consider halfway potentially practical. A tall, narrow flat rectangle of wood on the wall - disguised as an art piece, in this instance - can be pulled down and instantly drops into a chair shape ( Read more... )

Just reading the 1999 version of Peopleware, by DeMarco and Lister. It states a lot of things about teams, managers, and working environments that I've always suspected, having come from a Big Organisation background. Nice to know I'm not the only person to think that certain ways of doing things are just Bad.

I just realised the other day - there's something awfully familiar about a story I've been reading. See if you can guess which one it is.

An innocent orphaned maiden with a meaningful last name has her normal life stolen from her when she experiences a terrible, life-changing event of massive destructive power. She falls into a coma, and awakens ( Read more... )

Finally out in Australia! Admittedly, I should probably have picked a better time to see it than 10am on a school-holiday weekday, as there was the requisite crying baby a couple of seats over, but fortunately the rest of the kid-packed cinema wasn't too bad ( Read more... )

Not every little girl wants to be a princess.

Open-source Jacquard loom.

Printables.

There could be some interesting things in the mix there.

Black box, in this case, meaning "ideas go in, money comes out ( Read more... )

While looking at sites on minimalist air travel, and recalling the ability of the _Up in the Air_ movie's Ryan Bingham to travel and work out of nothing more than one piece of carry-on luggage, I started to wonder what the functional lower limit on such work-travel luggage was ( Read more... )

taleya notes that a change in medication can result in long-term allergies simply... vanishing. How's that for a medical trick?

"Fatally allergic to common substances, swell up like a puffer fish in spring, or just unable to enjoy your favorite food? Try chemo! Better living through chemistry!"

(Warning: chemo may cause parts of you to fall off or ( Read more... )

*puts chin on hands, looks up and to the side*

This article on how fans verbalise differently to society's 'average' is absolutely fascinating. It's ten years old and more - I wonder if there's been any followup since then ( Read more... )