Well, today has gotten off to a lousy start: a “new” Samsung hard drive is already sprouting “bad sectors”. Fudge. After all the recent HD problems around here I think I’m going back to Seagate. My period of testing the various offerings from different manufacturers is over. Give me the good stuff.

So anyway, as is probably obvious, I needed to raise my spirits with something fun to post, since I know this weekend I’ll be playing … (cue theme music) … Computer Repairman. Luckily as I was surfing through the Cool Hunting site I caught an entry that got me doing my own hunting. A little effort and I found myself in the Kidrobot discussion forums where I found what I was looking for: a post with this link to a gallery of images on the Vinyl Pulse website. Vinyl Pulse’s gallery of pictures are from yesterday’s “Munny Show”, a charity auction held to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. Worthwhile effort and fun design. It doesn’t get much better.

For anyone who hasn’t followed the niche vinyl toy market, it really is an interesting scene. Wired carried an article on it a year or so ago. Mostly I’ve been watching the scene from a distance. The most recent significant development of which I was aware was Kidrobot‘s introduction of a “Munny” – a kind of do-it-yourself toy. But I wasn’t aware of this event, so this is pretty cool. And of course, anything that brings together design and mass customization is of interest to me.

There. I feel better already.

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