fix your s**t

I like to fix things. especially good things. Here's the bottom side of my rice cooker. It's a Toshiba. It's from the late 60's. It rocks out the best rice, time after time. It had a removable power cord. And the socket for the cord was going bad so I hardwired the old cord into the guts of the cooker. It was nice to see a lack of vinyl plastics in this device. Only phenolic resin type plastics. The leads to the heating element are flat thin wires with small ceramic insulating cylinders on them. Then I buttoned it back up and made some rice.

So ... fix things before you trash them.

Dopeware

Happy Bicycle Day!

Forgot to tell you, it's Bicycle Day.
If you choose to ride, ride safely.

Oh dude, designers are screwed

There's all this chit-chat about sustainable design whether it's products or just plain graphic design. Everyone is chiming in on it and it's a interesting topic. Here are some links to various posts about what I'm talking about. 1, 2.