I’m telling you, I need a shed, or a workshop or garage, somewhere I could make something like the Groundhugger XR2. Clare has fibre-glassing experience and I’m fairly good with the tools. And then we could tackle some of the other build-it-yourself projects from this site. I think a one man sub would be cool.
via Make magazine’s del.icio.us feed
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A page of links dedicated to making your own fuels. Everything from Hydrogen to biodiesel.
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To that end, Burnell, 29, left the Republican Party, moved from California and founded Christian Exodus two years ago with the goal of redirecting the United States by “redeeming” one state at a time.
First up for redemption is South Carolina.
Reminds me of the FreeState Project, which in part inspired this.
via Warren Ellis
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The Design Council’s Red Project aims to find ways for homes to become less energy intensive and combat climate change.
One third of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions come from residential households. Householders could reduce this by making their houses more efficient, generating their own energy, switching suppliers or simply switching off.
We think people need a bit of well designed help. Bills are confusing, energy use is invisible and installations are tedious.
Our project proposes new products, services and policies to help householders save energy – and reduce C02 emissions.
Here’s our design-for-energy manifesto. We want YOU to take a look and tell us what you think needs to happen.
via WorldChanging
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But critics say the recommendations do not go far enough as energy suppliers are not required to source a percentage of heating fuel from renewable sources.
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For the First World War modeller, this Flickr gallery contains official and personal photographs of the Eastern Front from a German officer’s collection. Many of them are previously unpublished and offer up details of uniforms and architecture.
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I’m still waiting for the slides to come back from my charity shop find. The anticipation is killing me. For me, at least, they’ll be as fascinating as this collection of found images from films left in cameras for up to fifty years.
via BoingBoing
Interzone magazine has made it to 200 issues, which is quite an achievement.
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The need to do a task detracted from the experience because we couldn’t enjoy the view, but it was still an interesting diversion.
Deep down (oh, alright, not so deep down) i’m not suited to office work any more. I can’t quite explain why, it’s just the way i’ve become. I’d much rather be at my computer or in a shed, crafting bizarre links and strange sculptures for the world to enjoy. Still, events like this are pleasantly different.
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I posted about the artist Coop rediscovering his old model collection a while ago. Now it seems he’s trying to reproduce, more realistically, one of the kits he dug out.
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