Category: looky

• 80-100 hours ant $1000
• lit and dried by sunlight
• worms compost the receptacle contents
• empty once every 6 months, just add sawdust
• plans for $5 from :

  Larry Warnberg
  PO Box 43, Nahcotta, WA. 98637

• plans are for a portable version with skids

Web link of note: Solar Composting Advanced Toilet
(At http://www.solartoilet.com/)

“Stop Tofu Abuse – Eat Foie Gras”
Web link of note: Stop Tofu Abuse
(At http://www.creativeorigins.com/store/cp.html)

Make your own 3D crystal portrait. There is something very 1960’s sci-fi about this!
Web link of note: Immortaliz
(At http://www.immortaliz.com/)

Cockeyed.com is a great site… I love their hysterical and obsessive “How Much Inside” and the list of pranks.

Very geeky!
Web link of note: Cockeyed
(At http://www.cockeyed.com/)

not as lame as Time Cube!
Web link of note: Existence of Plural Objects
(At http://www.ggm.to/index2.html)

builders of fine analog synthesis modules (like the TM-1 through 5), and not-so-fine synthesis modules like The AGONIZER
Web link of note: MetaSonix
(At http://www.metasonix.com/)

I was at a tragically-hip housewares store in Berkeley (the sister store is on Filmore in SF if that gives you an idea) and they were playing “Moomin” on the TV.

Originally called “Moomintroll”, Moomin/Mumin is a Finnish children’s book series made into a Japanese cartoon and then dubbed into English, with Hawaiian music. The kids’ books were written by Tove Jansson in Swedish.

Now I have this urge to grab every Mumin episode ever!

While researching this, I have found out there is more than just the series I saw… there is a Polish-produced cartoon as well.

My friend Sam insisted the character “Snufkin” was a metaphor for a travelling god character, like Odin or the angels in Sodom. This seems to be a popular character in children’s cartoons… the Dungeon Master in Dungeons & Dragons, or the scruffy “Weather” in Adventures of the Little Koala.

My favorites were the “Hattifatteners,” which in Japanese are called nyoro nyoro.

• Moomin Character Guide


• Oy Moomin Characters Ltd
• Moominworld
• Muumi’s Dreamworld
• Moomin on Wikipedia

They sell tragically hip retro (late 60s, early 70’s) housewares and high-end toys, adult toys in the sense that children wouldn’t necessarily enjoy them.

They had Moomin playing on the TV.
Web link of note: Zinc Details
(At http://zincdetails.com/)

Remember how Sesame Street would have spoof “sponsors” that were letters or numbers?
In the interest of continuing education we need those for adults.

Today’s plant is: the Moringa Tree
Today’s sound is: the epiglottal plosive ( ʡ )

Finally, a magazine that comes with tape flags.

ShaC loaned me his copy of CARGO magazine which is basically a men’s shopping magazine- “ooh look at all this cool stuff I can buy.” One of the pages is an entire sheet of CARGO tape flags to hold your pages for you. And, fortunately, the page the flags are from is slightly of shorter width than the rest of the pages… so you can flip to it easily. Otherwise, you know I would flag the flags, because I’m crazy like that.

More magazines should do this so everyone can be as obsessive about their magazines as I am.

My only complaint- the binding makes it hard to rip out advertisements and hard to lay the magazine flat while, say, at the gym. Wired and the Utne Reader have this same kind of binding. That’s the first thing I do to Newsweek, Businessweek, or Star- rip out all the stiff ads so my magazine is nice and floppy. Notice none of this has anything to do with the content of the magazine.

Are you afraid yet?