In an ideal world, every nifty thing someone sends me, or I stumble across online, would be worthy of it’s own post. Alas, a lot of stuff is noteworthy or deserves to be shared, but I really can’t manage to write more than a few sentances about it. Since I’m going for substance over style, I’ll try and lump a few vaguely-related things together.
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I’m a big fan of (mis)using things in ways they were never intended - whether it’s the crazy antics of the MythBusters, my own more restrained adventures in applied creativity, or even pervertibles. Sometimes it’s creativity born of necessity; other times it’s a simple desire to be wierd or different… Sometimes, it’s just recognizing that one thing is perfectly suited to do something it was never meant to - like parabolic cookware antennas.
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