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Yeah, but everyone has been WFH for two years now…
I don't know about other countries but in the UK it's been almost entirely back to work for months now.
It's a huge compilation of weird technologies and inventions. Most of them are crackpot, of course, but some of them are legit and truly fascinating. Rex Research predates the Internet, you used to have to order from little ads in the back of Popular Mechanics. Back then this was pretty much the only way you could learn about this stuff. Nowadays some of the less crackpot tech is more widely known, and some of the inventions even have their own Wikipedia pages, e.g.:
Rolamite "the only elementary machine discovered in the twentieth century" http://www.rexresearch.com/wilkes/1wilkes.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolamite
Aerosol Electrical Generator aka Vaneless ion wind generator "a device that generates electrical energy by using the wind to move charged particles across an electric field" http://www.rexresearch.com/marks/marks.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
Hilsch-Ranque vortex tube "a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of 200 °C (392 °F), and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach −50 °C (−58 °F).[1] It has no moving parts." http://www.rexresearch.com/ranque/ranque.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube Maxwell's Demon! Although it does not violate thermodynamics.
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Just a warning that exploring James Lileks' site will suck you into spending a completely unreasonable number of hours marveling at his outstanding sense of humor (he wrote a great piece last week on the passing of P.J. O'Rourke) as well as the simultaneous wonderfulness and awfulness of mid-century American culture and life. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a destination on its own, and the Matchbooks Collection w…
Do you have a link for this?
Rather simple design, just a couple of images and text.
But the text is German dadaist poetry, and I'm not really sure if parts of it or the pictures aren't computer-generated, based on the sheer amount of content, supposedly created by a single person for fun.
On the other hand, the creator is kind of a genius, so maybe he really did write it all himself
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If the goods are handmade then the bad UX serves as a rate-limiter to constrain demand to supply. I'm assuming the system works well for him as otherwise he'd switch to a better solution.
It would be more profitable and professional to increase prices.
https://www.lingscars.com/
Quote: "Made in the People's Republic of China (Ling, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)" Definitely the guy has a great humor.
You can probably guess what her advice was and I will always regret not having the nerve to follow it.
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Offline Only — a website that can only be viewed when disconnected from the internet. https://chris.bolin.co/offline/