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Anyone who has read our pages for a time know we like Microplane’s graters. They are incredibly sharp, and oftentimes smart in construction and use. This new citrus tool is no exception, offering four functions in a tool no bigger than 8 x 2 inches. First of all, it’s of course a grater with the usual Microplane sharpness, perfect for zesting lime or lemon. Adding to this there are two garnish cutters, one fine and one a little bigger, and a peeling tool. The new citrus tool is available in three colors and you can get one from Amazon at USD 12:95.brbr

Osocio has a few visual goodbyes to share. This one caught our fancy. It’s a photograph of flying shreds of paper after shoes were hurled at the poster of President George Bush outside the US Consulate in Montreal, Canada. People went out in freezing -24 C weather to show support the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeizi (from the Bush Shoe incident). (Source: Flickr)

This new tablecloth/picnic blanket from ATYPYK featuring Manet’s controversial painting provides the perfect setting for a romantic picnic with some friends. After the orgy everyone can go home sated.

After what seems like years upon years of standstills, redesigns, and often-aggravating controversy, there has finally been some movement on the Flight 93 National Memorial in rural Pennsylvania. The National Park Service has announced that they have finally finalized the plans to buy the piece of land needed to start building a permanent memorial. This is long overdue, positive movement for the victims families, of course, but we expect it might also result in more news coming from both the design theft camps and those few but very loud “it looks too Islamic” voices. Surely, everyone needs to have a proper say in the creation of the memorial to make sure everything it right about it, but here’s to hoping things will start moving more swiftly now and everyone can begin to push forward. Here’s a bit:

The park service said the deal would allow construction of the memorial to begin on schedule later this year. The goal is to have the first part of the $56 million initial phase of the memorial completed by 2011. The Svonavec family, the owners of the quarry, agreed with that goal.

“It didn’t make sense to throw off the gloves and come out swinging and delay the park from opening on the 10th anniversary,” Patrick Svonavec, the company’s lawyer, said Saturday. “We didn’t want to be a holdup to that. That’s not the makeup or the objective of the gentlemen who own the company.”

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At a previous ID gig I had to painstakingly measure every millimeter, angle and curve of a competitor’s product using calipers and ship’s curves, then create a model of it in the computer.

If Rochester, New York-based Real-View’s 3D scanner is real, perhaps you young bucks can avoid similar fates. The website seems a bit dodgy and the Starship Enterprise aesthetics are a bit strange, but if the device does what it says it does, you’ll be thankful you never have to touch ship’s curves again.

via dvice

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