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Archive for February, 2008

New Software

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GusMueller: “Acorn 1.1 has been released, woot. And it’s about time too- the ‘intro’ price was starting to look a bit permanent. You can read the release notes on the Acorn wiki.”

Written by Steve Kirks

February 28th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

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Congrats to Josh Marshall

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Jarrett House North: “The world seems to agree. Having won a George Polk Award for legal reporting, TPM’s crowdsourced investigatory model now stands as a new high water mark in what lowered transaction costs can do to journalism. No matter how quiet, distributed, and seemingly boring, no matter how voluminous the documentation in which the offense is buried, you can now count on one thing: bloggers will be there to put the pieces together and spell out the uncomfortable truth.”

Written by Steve Kirks

February 25th, 2008 at 11:58 am

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ICA & CA Habitat for Humanity Pattern Book

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Veritas et Venustas: “Development practices over the course of the last 60 years have eroded, and in some places obliterated, this great American tradition. Instead of building mixed-income neighborhoods, we have built single-income subdivisions isolated from each other.”

Written by Steve Kirks

February 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am

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R2D2 knit hat

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MAKE Magazine: “This R2D2 knit hat from the Craft: Blog was just too geek-chic to not cross-post here.”

R2D2Beanie

Written by Steve Kirks

February 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm

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“Tenderizer” ring

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MAKE Magazine: “Ken Goldman’s ‘Tenderizer’ ring”

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Written by Steve Kirks

February 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm

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Knit gas-mask hat

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For the knitters who read this weblog…

Boing Boing: “Craftster’s Teriyakimoto knitted this (non-functional) gas-mask hat for work and play”

Written by Steve Kirks

February 23rd, 2008 at 10:29 am

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And I’m not kidding…

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bootish

Written by Steve Kirks

February 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Posted in Fashion