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I have achieved purple hair. Its not bright and eye grabbing, its really eggplanty and a nice dark purple. I didnt get all the hair bleached out for this, but it was a nice way to cover up the white and silver bits. We shall see how long it lasts before it fades out. I know it must be nice, because the sister creature gave me grief about getting my hair purple, and guess what? She wants to do hers like mine. She has a lot more white so she would be a lot more purple. We had conveyor belt sushi for dinner too. Ran a bunch of the sisters errands and went to the William Dietrich signing at the Btown Powells. |
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=231901
The Best Decline Letter of All-Time: Edmund Wilson (via Making Light)
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=232159 A good read in The Daily Dot about a "major piece of the puzzle" in Tumblr's origin myth that’s often overlooked: "[Founder David] Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second. The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging."
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=231898 Here's a video from last week's Maker Faire showcasing technologies for printing out 3D-ish objects using 2D printers: ModelBox turns a 3D model into a series of 2D images you print on acetate and set into a frame to cheaply and quickly prototype/simulate the 3D object; Zebra Images turns 3D models into holograms; and Lynx Laboratories demos its all-in-one 3D scanner. 3D Printing on a 2D printer?! - Maker Faire 2013 (Thanks, Francis!)
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=231940 『びっくり口絵 怪物世界のお札』 (via Crazy Abalone)
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=232149  Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page:
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=232143 Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "Our Senior Victorian Accessories Correspondent, Hunter Oatman-Stanford, has just written a piece about the chatelaine, which was the killer hands-free device for women back in the Victorian era. For his article, he interviewed author Genevieve Cummins."
The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women 
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=231894 Elijah sez, "Recent news has been all about the commercial use of 3D printing - from food to weaponry. But recently, doctors at the University of Michigan used quick thinking and 3D printing technology to save the life of a 2-month-old child with a rare disease."
3-D Printing Saves Baby's Life [VIDEO] (Thanks, Elijah Wolfson!)
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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboin http://boingboing.net/?p=232140 Matthew says: "Charles Ramsay, the man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in Cleveland, is getting complimentary McDonald's for the next year."
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This week has been a lesson in the ways of the internet. I put a handful of links to a brilliant Ira Glass video on creativity and taste in the middle of my post about On Writing and only 3% of you fuckers went and watched it, despite the fact that I talk the damn thing up ’cause it really is that useful and awesome. I put one link in a post about Robot Jox where I mention that the writer is shitting on his own project, and all of you motherfuckers go traipsing off to snicker to look at Joe Haldeman being all “yeah, this film is a dog, man. What were we thinking.” You people, you people worry me. And I know the excuses that people will throw my way. I hear you sitting up the back, being all, “”No, Pete, it’s not like that, we swear.” To that I say: “bullshit, motherfucker. I’ve got goddamn metrics. Three fucking percent.” “But it’s hard,” you say, “we don’t want to follow a link just to see people being brilliant. We want to laugh at peoples misery and failure.” And really, I should leave you to your foolishness. But I won’t. ‘Cause the Ira Glass video really is that damn good and it really is a useful thing to have heard, at least once, if you’re engaging in any kind of creative endeavor. And ’cause I care. So here you go. No linking required. JUST PRESS GODDAMNED PLAY ALREADY. Think of it like eating your vegetables before you move onto a delicious schadenfreude pudding. Ira Glass is a goddamn legend. And now you know it. And I really hope that video works, otherwise this post is going to look really goddamn stupid.
Originally published at PeterMBall.com. Please leave any comments there. |
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Like a customized Swiss Army knife, a chatelaine provided its wearer with exactly the tools she needed closest at hand. For an avid seamstress, that might include a needle case, thimble, and tape measure, while for an active nurse it might mean a thermometer and safety pins. Inspired by the complex key rings carried by “la chatelaine,” the female head of a grand French estate, these beautiful little contraptions were as fashionable as they were practical. In fact, their design was sometimes so trendy that style trumped usefulness.