Sunday 14 November 2010
stitch-witchery or hobby lobby
Of course, malleability and ruggedness will only improve over time and perhaps the potential for domestic manufacturing will explode, already with talk of fabricating architectural elements, sculpture, ginger-bread houses, integrated circuits, clothing and even human organs. Boing Boing, MAKE and many other websites host creative conversions about 3D printing innovations regularly. Just see what you can find. Design will be customized and revolutionized, with no restraints or anything extraneous. There will be, no doubt, a Gutenberg moment of singularity when the means are available to all, and surely there will be some businesses that want to ensure that their designs are protected and maybe computer companies will someday soon turn to peddling patterns, like the Simplicity paper cut-out guides in fabric stores and turn spiteful like those who belittle homemade Christmas presents over the store-bought variety. Clay might be the business of the future. Perhaps contemporary designs will retain some proprietary protections, but I am sure that any home would be happily and comfortably outfitted with Art Nouveau and Classical motifs—brilliant and timeless and in the public domain.
Friday 12 November 2010
blackletter fraktur
Wednesday 10 November 2010
atom-mill
catagories: ⚛️, ๐ฉ๐ช, Bavaria, environment
QEII is not just a luxury liner or deconstructing dorothy
catagories: ๐ฌ, economic policy, foreign policy
Monday 8 November 2010
ornithopter or kid icarus
catagories: ๐ง , America, economic policy
Saturday 6 November 2010
pharmacokinetics or better living through chemistry
Before repairing to bashing the industrial standards of Asian maunfacturers for toothpaste with high lead-content, and eliding over our own thiftiness for going with the lowest bidder in the first place, the Western world makes and has made for decades quite enough poisonous products all on its own. One piece that rather made my skin crawl and left me shuddering for the checkout girl where H and I went shopping just a little bit earlier concerned studies showing that Bisphenol A leeches from thermal-receipt paper through the skin and into the body just from casual handling. It's nearly as devastating as the formaldehyde that leaks out of new furniture and carpeting.
catagories: ⚕, ๐งช, environment