Brent Fitzgerald » visual http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com Life & Research Notes Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:54:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cardboard Obamas http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2009/01/cardboard-obamas/ http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2009/01/cardboard-obamas/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:54:31 +0000 brent http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/?p=649

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The Magic GardenThe Magic Garden makes a wonderful inexpensive gift for that special someone. Simply add the magic solution and watch it grow.

The Secret Life of Syrian LingerieThe Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie surprises and delights.

Crocheted Owls (amigurumi) are a top seller, from what I hear.

Beeswax crayons are high quality and come in a variety of thicknesses.

Link: http://store.sfelectricworks.com/

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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo. Via FlowingData.

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The Taco Lab, LLC is pleased to announce a radical new collaboration with world famous bitwise biologist and curiosity curator Prof. Engd. For the first time ever, Engd’s massive collection of fine miniature creatures will be published in its entirety, one each day for all of 2009:

View these mini monsters online: Professor Engd’s Étagère of Hypnopompic Hexadecimal Miniature Monsters.

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The Unfinished Swan – Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Via arikan’s delicious. Quite lovely.

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Harvard Square, Nov 16, 2008

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Yay, after being, uh, kinda dead for awhile, I finally resurrected Yummy, the little delicious timeline that could. I updated its code to a slightly less embarrassing state and put it under the Taco Lab masthead.

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Yay, the Taco Lab postcards showed up just in time (well, actually a little late) for Dave’s visit to the ASTC museum conference.

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Tired of stepping over homeless people on your way to bikram? Jonesing for a Yacon Root smoothie? Gentrify helps the elite urban bourgeois find their natural habitats.

Gentrify is currently in alpha lite preview stealth mode edition. Created for Rails Rumble ‘08 by 734m: Huned Botee, Brent Fitzgerald, Visnu Pitiyanuvath, and Gerad Suyderhoud.

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A new look for October, including redesigned page transitions, mini slideshows for project images, much improved IE6 compatibility, and no more weird plaid background.

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