One year ago today
Designing a cardboard chair: "As long as you don't leave them in the rain they will last. I have IKEA furniture that is de-laminating and these are still fine. It's just four layers of basic, heavy duty cardboard from any type of box and once you've laminated it over a mould it just kind of sticks in place."
Five years ago today
Someone left a piano in the woods: I hope that whomever left this working piano in the woods of Harwich, Massachusetts was planning on coming back every night and beating the hell out of the keys with some kind of all-night swing session, playing and playing as the piano deteriorated through the fall and winter, going mushier and wetter, until all that would come out of it was its own funeral march.
Ten years ago today
Lessig: Towns should own their fiber: If a traditional network provider owned an AFN in a particular area, that network provider, acting rationally, would charge customers a monopoly price, or restrict service to get its monopoly benefit. But if the customer owned the network, then the customer could get the same access at a much lower price and be free of use restrictions. McAdams is pushing – and Burlington and other cities are actually deploying – customer-owned AFNs.
