#458 Three One Four One:

abolished-your-mythology:

are you fucking kidding…:

abolished-your-mythology:

devildoll:

are you fucking kidding me

How

the fuck

[Ooooh, I like this idea. -egg]
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Farmers should make house-calls:

John Robb wants us to stop landscaping our lawns, and start foodscaping them — growing food for our families. And he thinks the way to jumpstart it is for farmers to make house-calls. I love this idea, but don’t think I could participate in it: when we applied to Hackney Council in London for permission to add a greenhouse frame to our balcony they rejected it because it would “interrupt the vertical rhythm” of our building. As far as I can tell, “vertical rhythm” is an imaginary aesthetic quality that is more important than real food.

Of course, since most people in the developed world don’t know how to grow food anymore and many of the methods and tools used to grow high quality food are still being developed, we are going to need to some help.

One great way to do that is to join a local foodscaping program.

This type of program is like a food subscription at a CSA. However, in this program, the farmer comes to you. He/she converts your yard into a high performance garden and teaches you how to garden it successfully.

I think that if we are smart, we’ll be spending more money on foodscaping in ten years than landscaping. If so, good food will be available everywhere.

What if Farmers made House Calls?

[Particularly excellent mouseover. -egg]

Ineffective Sorts:

[“disorienting” heh heh heh. -egg]
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Good Vibrations Storage Unit by Ferruccio Laviani
“Echoes…:

Good Vibrations Storage Unit by Ferruccio Laviani
“Echoes of faraway places and Oriental elements are glimpsed in the “disorienting” design of this storage unit, which seems to have been “deformed” by a strong jolt or by swaying movements. Although it appears to depart from the aesthetics of the past, in fact it draws upon ancient knowledge in the use of carving and fine wood workmanship.”
Hand-carved glitch, submitted by David A.

[Effing brilliant. -egg]
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The Aleph: Twitter and Gutenberg mashup tribute to Jorge Luis Borges: A neat project by David Hirmes: The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity. Sentences from Project Gutenberg and Twitter that start with two words: “I saw…”

You can view only Gutenberg, or only Twitter, or mush them both to produce beautiful word salad like this:

I saw wild hands upcast to the gloom above, a shrunken, pallid face, the gleam of snow-white hair. I saw and smelt that they used real powder. I saw the horrible glare of her eyes, but I could not see so much of her as I wished, and I said that I would call again in the morning. I saw her first five years ago at Gerard’s; she came from Switzerland, where she had taken refuge. I saw him the other night, and from what he said, and what she says, I can see pretty well how things are going. I saw a picture of @AmalJamal_ on prom night. lol.

The Aleph is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges in which a man is suddenly able to see all things at once. The website’s creator David Hirmes explains:

I wanted to present a version of what The Aleph might look like now, designed as an endless stream of descriptive passages pulled from the web. For source texts, I took the complete Project Gutenberg as well as current tweets. I searched for the phrase “I saw.”
The title of the piece is a reference to the narrator’s summing up of the vast whirring world he’s seen, one of “infinite wonder and infinite pity”.

(HT: @samryan)

Sometimes evolution produces ridiculous creatures like the…:

Sometimes evolution produces ridiculous creatures like the sarcastic fringehead just to watch them fight. Immature? Possibly. But you try keeping yourself amused for 3.8 billion years.

Australian pop-out camper that is full of well-thought-out features:

Here’s a slow, gentle, fascinating demonstration video for the Wedgetail slide-on camper, “built for rough Australian terrain.” It’s a pretty amazing feat of engineering, with lots of thoughtful features. But what really gets me is in the money shot where the whole thing opens up like some kind of origami trick. Big things hidden in little things! Hell yeah!

Wedgetail slide on camper demonstration

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)