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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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> that got me doing my own<\/em> hunting. A little effort and I found myself in the Kidrobot discussion forums<\/a> where I found what I was looking for: a post with this link<\/a> to a gallery of images on the Vinyl Pulse<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>‘s introduction of a “Munny<\/a>” – 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.<\/p>\n There. I feel better already.<\/p>\n {Images Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Vinyl Pulse}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading