Lots of different book shelf designs, these are linked over at Book Covers. They don’t have my favourite book shelf design on there though, the Kumiko Shelf.

Tags: book shelf, book shelves, Books, Design, favourite book, shelf designs

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A fun way of keeping your students interested that will only work if you’ve put sufficient thought into the process and you’ve a personality that can pull this off.
This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention - by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lessons that lasted [...]

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T-shirt featuring famous Robots from movies. I might have to get one of these, I think it’s compulsory given my blog!

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Woo. I wouldn’t want one of these but they are really cool.

Just when you think plushy creations can’t get more weird, here comes a macabre soft toy creator in the UK who recreates roadkill. Currently you can choose from Twitch the Racoon or Grind the Rabbit complete with toe tags, tyre marks and cute giblets [...]

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Oh I don’t know, I leave England for a couple of years and what happens, you get a poor PM who is probably going to be kicked out by his own Party. Very Thatcher-esq. A fitting end for New Labour? It would be a very neat circle. The try to become the Tories and what [...]

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Some of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the world have a spiral stair as the final flourish. The spiral stair is an architects favorite, from Gaudi to Corbusier to Foster, but some of the most interesting spiral stairs are accidental pieces of architecture, such as those inside lighthouses or on giant silos and [...]

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Wired has a nice piece on the state of Privacy in America - expect none under Bush.
President Bush has failed to nominate candidates for a congressionally empowered privacy board intended to police anti-terrorism programs.
Photo: AP / Monsivais
The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves [...]

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I purchased the last pack of applications from the Macheist people, and I was burned by the Speed Download 4 (SD4) fiasco. TUAW has a good write up on it, but more exists.
the SD5 update was pushed down via the automatic updating system [built in to SD4 and switched on by default-CR], apparently catching [...]

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