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Nemesis wanted

Silouan — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:04:22 +0000

Green kitchen

Silouan — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:16:20 +0000

Kitchen with a view. Feels like you’re cooking outside under the trees!

(via green renaissance)

Scots village Dull to officially twin with US town Boring

Silouan — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:26:57 +0000

Today at STV:

In a move which is unlikely to set pulses racing, the Perthshire village and the Oregon logging town are discussing linking to become Dull and Boring. Locals from around the Dull area became aware of equally-unfortunately named US town and decided to pursue a formal link-up.

More info and dull video…

John Cleese Reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”

Silouan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:27:56 +0000

Part 1

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(via Justin Taylor)

China knuckles

Silouan — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 01:03:37 +0000

Today at etsy.com:

They’re just like brass knuckles, but they’re made of recycled Blue Willow china and are quite fragile.

Read and buy…

Door at St Edward’s Parish Church in the Cotswolds, flanked by yew trees

Silouan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:51:32 +0000

“Speak, friend, and enter.”

A full day

Silouan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:21:37 +0000

This amazing panoramic photograph (known as a stereographic projection) was recently captured by Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoloulos during a mammoth 30-hour photo shoot in Sounio, Greece. The image is comprised of hundreds of photographs shot from daytime to nighttime that have been digitally stitched together to represent an entire rotation of the Earth.

(via Wreck & Salvage: Colossal: news.com.au)

Access as a feature, not a concession

Silouan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:21:17 +0000

Ben at define space writes:

in a world were barrier free design is essential to living a full and happy life, its amazing to see landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander has taken literal steps to design stairs AROUND a ramp, instead of the other way around.

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Let’s ask my science officer.

Silouan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:17:35 +0000

My science officer, Doctor Sloth, looks like he has some insight to share.

Ketchupbot

Silouan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:04:02 +0000

I need a ketchupbot for every room in my house.

Luxury hotel built almost completely underground

Silouan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:03:51 +0000

Underground Hotel of the Day: “Under construction” has taken on new meaning for a new luxury hotel outside Shanghai — 16 of the 19 floors are being built below ground level in an abandoned quarry. The 380-room InterContinental Shimao Wonderland, whose deepest floor will house a restaurant that will actually be underwater at the bottom of the quarry, is expected to open by late 2014 or early 2015.

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(via TDW: businessinsider)

Behold the thermosaurus!

Silouan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:25:33 +0000

Behold the awesome Thermosaurus! Designed by the creative folks at Art. Lebedev Studio, the Thermosaurus is a heat exchanger with a Tyrannosaurus as a backbone. The device is highly efficient and energy-savvy, thanks to its complex structure that includes a skull, spine, ribs, legs, and tail bones. Made of cast iron, Thermosaurus installs like your regular central-heating radiator.

(via geyserofawesome: designyoutrust: artlebedev.com)

Just a seagull on a glass roof

Silouan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:25:11 +0000

Me every morning

Silouan — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:22:32 +0000

The advert an 8-year-old wrote

Silouan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:21:28 +0000

When Sony Ericsson and ad agency McCann Worldgroup made a commercial to introduce its new Sony Xperia phone using the theme “Made of Imagination”, they decided to commission script ideas from experts of whimsy: children.

Director Wes Anderson grilled 75 children in New York, London, and Los Angeles about what made an Xperia work. Jake Ryan, an 8-year-old actor from Long Island, had a perfect idea: robots. Three robots. “Tiny, tiny little robots,” to be exact

Nine custom sets, 37 hand-crafted models, and more than 10,000 man hours to “create a commercial made entirely of imagination.”

Read more at Business Insider