Monthly Archives: February 2005

Interoperable apocalypse: sf story about devices that come to life

<strong>Cory Doctorow</strong>:
SF writer Paul DiFilippo has a wonderful story on SciFi.com called And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon that's funny, dirty, and technologically prescient. It concerns itself with "blebs" — composite gadget made byt he spontaneous merging of smart household objects that are a little too interoperable.
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The Volition Bug was launched anonymously from [...]

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Novelty cake gnawed by sculpted brownie rats HOWTO

<strong>Cory Doctorow</strong>:
This cake includes edible rats made from brownies in order to perfect the illusion that it's been partially eaten by vermin.
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First, I made a regular box cake. Then I ripped chunks of it out to look like it had been partially eaten.
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Then, I covered the remainder of the cake in [...]

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Friday night remainders, 2005-02-04

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It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had a round of remainders&#8212;good stuff I've wanted to mention that never found their way into a full post. Here's a few to chew on over the weekend.
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<li><strong>Map in your Moleskine</strong> - This is one is kind of a super-hack, because it combines several old favorites into one. First, [...]

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Flickr tag: hipster pda

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leff/4269370/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://photos1.flickr.com/4269370_a657326c9e_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leff/4269370/">hipster pda</a>
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Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/leff/">leff</a>. </span><br clear="all" /><p style=""><blockquote><p>&#8220;Yeah, so I went to school for computers. I do live online. And yet I have never found a task management solution that works better than this [...]

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