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What’s your “Earth Day Fix”

April 22nd, 2008
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Last night, Sara noticed that I always run the water while brushing my teeth, which honestly is a total waste. There’s no need for it to be running, it’s just habit. Instead of “going green” or making some other token effort today, I’m going to actually make a small fix in the way I do things. [ READ MORE ]

NYCResistor: The Knitting Machine

April 17th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized

I shot this video of Bre’s knitting machine as demoed by Kelly at NYC Resistor last night. They just don’t make machines like this anymore! It’s incredibly intricate and the pieces move and work together in amazing ways. Crossposted from: http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/04/17/the-knitting-machine/ Yesterday, the awesome Kelly Farrell took some time to demo the knitting machine that Bre’s got [ READ MORE ]

The power of BricaBox demonstrated by an April Fools list

April 1st, 2008
Posted in april fools . awesome . bricabox . web2.0

At about midnight last night, I realized that it was now April Fools and that the internet pranks were about to start rolling in. Right then, Gmail started boasting it’s new “Custom Time” feature, a.viary rolled out their auto-aging tool “Dodo”, and blip.tv added a new “rickroll” advertisting format to go with pre-roll and [ READ MORE ]

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