Hasta La Ideas

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pI think when you get arrested these days you should get one phone call, one Tweet and one Facebook update. (“Back in jail need bail LOLZ.”) Our daily internet use has reached a saturation rate no one could have imagined twenty years ago./p

pSomething else you can’t imagine: The internet being turned off. /p

pA new, daft–sorry, draft–U.S. Senate Bill is proposing that during a “cybersecurity emergency” the President should be able to “seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet,” with broadband providers and search engines required to comply. (The entire 197-page document is available for download A HREF=”http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.ViewFileStore_id=4ee63497-ca5b-4a4b-9bba-04b7f4cb0123″ here/A.) If national security is at stake I’m not sure I can really argue against the motion, but unsurprisingly the bill is expected to stir up major debate and opposition./p

pSays one official, “We cannot afford to wait for a cyber 9/11 before our government realises the importance of protecting our cyber resources.” The terrorists, it seems, hate our Facebook./p

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Yesterday, in the comment section to “Downsizing after a divorce” reader Clutter Junkie left an amazing strategy for reducing clutter that I wanted to highlight as its own post. From Clutter Junkie:

I’m rubbish at decluttering, but I had a girlfriend help me do my place.

She brought $20 in coins to start me off, and put everything I owned to one side of the room. If I wanted to keep anything, I had to buy it for a dollar (Just one dollar!) at a time. You soon realise that you wouldn’t pay a dollar for that CD in a junk shop — so why are you keeping it? All the money I paid went to charity, the amount of stuff I didn’t want also went to a charity store. It’s amazing how unappealing that old sweater looks when you have to pay for it.

I think this idea would work amazingly well for some situations — helping kids to minimize their toy collections, reducing the number of clothes in a closet, and deciding which sentimental items to keep and which to toss are a few situations that instantly come to my mind. If you have to “buy” your things again, you will certainly be more selective with what you choose to keep.

I also love the idea of the money and the left over items going to charity (assuming they’re in good condition). It’s nice to know that good things can happen as a result of your uncluttering efforts. Thanks, Clutter Junkie, for sharing your uncluttering strategy with us.

Commissioned by Nike78 (Eliza posted about the project earlier this month) London-based THIS IS studio has created these rather fetching knitted trainers. They just sent us more images so we thought we’d post them up…

“The Nike78 project asked us to challenge the function of a pair on Nikes,” explains Barney Beech of THIS IS.  “In the world cup spirit we’ve created these trainers for the discerning sofa athlete: hand knitted with a Cashmere/Merino mix. The comfiest way to watch the game!”

See Eliza’s post on the Nike78 project here

Cette splendide sculpture nautique est la dernière pièce de l’artiste multidisciplinaire Xavier Veilhan. John Dodelande a invité cet artiste français à créer ce bateau RAL5105 selon ses envies. D’un monochrome bleu, cette réalisation renvoie aux différentes oeuvres de l’artiste.

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pWith the beachhead for blade-less fans now secured, Dyson is branching out into different form factors for his A HREF=”http://www.dyson.com/store/fans.asp” Air Multipliers/A. In addition to the 10- and 12-inch desktop models, there’s now a A HREF=”http://www.dyson.com/store/productFan.asp?product=AM02-SILSIL” 40-inch Tower Fan/A and a A HREF=”http://www.dyson.com/store/productFan.asp?product=AM03-SILSIL” Pedestal Fan/A that telescopes from 46 inches to 55. /p

pAlso increasing in size: The price. The original desktop models are in the $300 range, but the new tall-boys clock in around $450, for those of you with the cash to…blow. (Sorry.)br /
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