How Your Fish Tank Can Decrease Our Dependence on Foreign Oil

Posted on September 20, 2007 by goodmind

 
Though the use of farmland to “harvest” ethanol has raised the price of corn in Mexico, and the price of wheat in Italy (resulting in a one day spaghetti boycott), we are still sanguine about the outlook for biofuels, particularly this very green version. Algae, the bane of fish tank owners everywhere, represents a decentralized source [...]

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Hackers Take Over Ikea

Posted on September 7, 2007 by goodmind

The concept of “Ikea Hacking” will make amateur artists out of us all.  Instead of assembling the Karlanda sofa as per the instructions, an Ikea Hacker would interpret the materials in his or her own way, creating a one of a kind object out of pretty generic parts.  The New York Times recently described Ikea Hackers as; 
 ”do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters [...]

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