A while back I shared a few hobbit-style homes people had built, but my favorite so far has to be the Low-Impact Woodland Home that Simon Dale and his family built in Wales:
Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to [...]
Posted by Chris in Architecture, Art, Environment, Fun, World on August 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am stealing this idea from Fark. The AFA is incensed that Hallmark is making same-sex marriage cards and is boycotting the company. In addition, they have a very nice website where you can write to those durned lib’rals at Hallmark and give them what fer! As was suggested on Fark, it’s also a convenient [...]
Posted by Deana in Community & Activism, Email, Fun, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, To Help, Writing, You have got to be kidding on August 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
[from my GeekDad post]
I have a confession to make. Compared to most GeekDads, I’m kind of a Luddite. I don’t have a video game console, or a TV to plug it into. I play games with cards and boards, not on the computer. My pets are biological, not robotic. Heck, I don’t even have a [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, Geekdad, Technology on August 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John pointed out an article in the New York Times magazine that looks in-depth at Obama’s economic plan and why it’s so difficult to classify as liberal or conservative. The whole article is a great read, but this one passage caught my attention:
The second criticism is that Obama’s tax increases would send an already-weak economy [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Politics on August 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Yep, that’s me looking all farmer-like last winter sitting on Barefoot’s electric ATV prototype named “Alice.” My crew and I have had the luck of being able to test this Barefoot Motors prototype; which basically means driving it all over our vineyards and trying to break it. And we did — except all [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Environment, Technology on August 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is unbelievably lame, but will probably get me to pray the reverse just out of cussedness.
Posted by Deana in Oddly Enough, Politics, Religion, You have got to be kidding on August 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Things have been quiet at Global Spin lately, but not because I have nothing to talk about. I’ve just been doing my writing elsewhere, like these two stories about my recent trip to iPhoneDevCamp. From GeekDad:
I had a great time at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco last weekend. Lots of geekdads and their kids were [...]
Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Technology, Writing on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
via ReShun:
Posted by Chris in Economics, Government, Politics on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
And showing off the friendship star quilt that Karen made for Luke, too!
Posted by Deana in Art, Crafts, Fun, Government, Making Stuff, Personality, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology, That which is awesome on August 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
