I Kill Spies

Damn dude, this is worse than Flobee
Web link of note: Perfect Sideburns
(At http://perfectsideburns.com/)

The girls would turn the color of an avocado…

don’t try to pay for meals with this thing mmmkay?
Web link of note: Mr Picassohead
(At http://www.mrpicassohead.com/)

Rideable Bicycle Replicas, supplier of custom hiwheel bicycles.

I want a Boneshaker, which is their model of Pennyfarthing, aka High-Wheel Bicycle.

I have also seen it called an “ordinary” (ordinaries) to distinguish them from another kind of high wheel bicycle with the large wheel in the back.
Web link of note: Ridable Bicycle Replicas
(At http://hiwheel.com/)

Voodoo on a budget! Some of their articles are quite informative!
Web link of note: Lucky Mojo
(At http://www.luckymojo.com)

a forum for sustainable housing and living
Web link of note: EarthShip
(At http://www.earthship.org/)

If you like sexy, smart, strong girls with superior tech skills, you are in luck.

“Ask The Tech Girl” gives you the rare opportunity to talk live to a super smart, sometimes snarky and always sexy tech girl, geek chick or network ops cutie.

The next time you need tech support, why not spice it up a little? Call our toll free number and find out why we say “We Give Good Tech”…

Web link of note: Ask the Tech Girl
(At http://askthetechgirl.com/)

I was just looking at the LoftCube again and my friend Brian mentioned the Dymaxion House, a pre-fab house designed and built by Buckminster Fuller in 1946.

Buckminster Fuller designed his igloo-shaped Dymaxion House so it could be shipped to buyers in a can-shaped container.
   None of the parts weighed more than 10 pounds and the cost was about $6,500.

Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is preparing to open an exhibit of the house designed to withstand tornadoes.

Links

• Dymaxion House at Henry Ford Museum


• Detroit News: Fuller house finds a home


• Dymaxion House entry at Wikipedia
• Buckminster Fuller on PBS (WNET)
  • Article on the bathroom of Dymaxion House, which uses a “fog gun” shower, providing a hygenic shower which uses only a single cup of water
  • Article on the Dymaxion House

Like the Sharper Image, except cool. They have crazy gadgets like the puzzle clock, which won’t turn off until you put the puzzle pieces back together again, or these grass armchair things which are cardboard frames you can use to grow chairs out of the ground.
Web link of note: FireBox
(At http://www.firebox.com/)

Radical documentarian Alex Jones. The titles alone are worth a visit to his site.
Web link of note: Alex Jones: InfoWars
(At http://www.infowars.com/)

I have a few giant volumes of text I would like to have bound into hard copies… Like maybe this blog for example, or a collection of my screenplays.

There are a lot of sites on the web which will print your manuscript into a bound book and even help you sell it. Some of them will sell it off their site for you, printing up copies on demand… some even will print copies for strangers buying your book and will let you collect a royalty on your work!

Here’s the research I did for this idea.

• ranty article at Go Publish Yourself

• My old favorite CafePress has a new Book Service… if you decide to do this, feel free to list me as the referrer because I might get free stuff! My shop ID is ghosthouse . Look, I’ll even put an advertisement in my entry!

  
  I like their deal because not only can you price it however you want (your diary could be $1000… you greedy sell-out!) but also they take PDF, which means I can pretty much print out anything I want, like diagrams or weird fonts.

• Lulu it turns out is not run by my friend Lulu, nor is it related to the SF restaurant… They also publish on-demand books, and they have options for color.

• Xlibris was one of the first places I looked. they are a pretty serious service, and have a bunch of different services you can buy from them, like cover design, editing service, and a marketing services. What is kind of crazy is they also have a Art Studio which takes illustration commissions. Another thing I really like is Xlibris offers publishing services for hardback children’s picture books.

• Here is the Yahoo Directory for self-publishing

• BlogBinders is a new service: their printing is a little ghetto but! it’s totally streamlined to print your blog content and it’s also automated:
  

  First, you provide some information about your blog account and an automated program downloads your blog content. Blogbinders application strips out any images and HTML formatting at this point, so you are left with the basic written text from your blog entries. Subjects, dates and carriage returns are maintained.

• iUniverse is a more focussed version of Xlibris… if they like your published book, it gets picked up by editors and gets promoted! Their marketing tools also look like they are more serious, and have things like the Clipping Service and the Publicist Service. Like Xlibris, these are all services you pay for… however unlike Xlibris the initial fee is pretty sizable… as of this writing the cheapest level is $460 !

• Creating Comics is a quick list of links… with tips on getting a distributor, etc
• Dimestore Productions is a small-run publishing company for comics
• iComics has a
  pricing list