A couple of weekends ago the 3rd annual Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn was held at the McCarren Park Pool. The difference between the Renegade Craft Fair and any other craft fair is that it is for the type of crafters who read Readymade, Craft, or Make Magazine. A little bit indie, and not the [...]
Tonight Nova had the best program I’ve seen on solar energy.
Check your local listings at pbs.org
As often happens over Thanksgiving when you are the daughter of an architect and art historian who is now an aspiring urban/suburban planner-in-training, the line of conversation veered toward new approaches to living in spaces. My mother announced she just signed up for a new magazine as a inaugural member. This magazine to [...]
In Ohio, one precinct is experimenting with a tiny police dog, half chihuaha and half rat terrier. This little pup, who weighs just 6 pounds, is being trained to sniff out drugs. The town has been taken with the pup who rides around with the sheriff on his motorcycle while wearing tiny goggles; she was [...]
n the past month or so, a lot has happened. In regards to the blog itself, I’ve installed Word Press 2.0, and Canvas 1.0 and Kiwi 2.0. What’s all of that mean? the site is going to look different, and parts will probably not be usable, but you should have access to all of the articles.
Honey We’re Killing the Kids is a new reality tv show that airs on TLC. Dr. Lisa Hark takes on a unhealthy family in each show. After a myriad of tests, Dr. Hark finds that the family in the first episode is suffering from a seriously unhealthy life style. Through special computer technology which [...]
Katrina Cottages or Cusato Cottages are actually a lot bigger than the tiny houses that Tumbleweed Tiny House Company makes, but of course they are made to be multiple person dwellings.
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The San Francisco Chronicle has some good pictures of the cottages and another one of hundreds of cottages around the turn of the Century in [...]
Tomorrow plans to be the best night in Television. On Fox, Prison Break returns with new episodes, and it’s followed by 24.
The shows are by some standards preposterous, but, they are the most engaging well written dramas that Fox has had in a long time. If you’re around a TV with nothing better to [...]
I couldn’t watch the State of the Union Address this week, but I did hear about our suddenly apparent addiction to oil.
Worldchanging has an article on Flex Fuels which are being advertised on the other big television event of the week. During the Super Bowl, GM is going to advertise it’s new Flex Fuel [...]
I’m watching an old Nova on Roman baths. They were heated radiantly. In the show they make a new Roman bath.
It’s a good look into the engineering of Rome. This was a civilisation that built very large and elaborate structures without power-tools.
The water is heated with a boiler. The boiler and the radiant heater use [...]