No Windmills, Tulips or Wooden Shoes, Please (Reuters)

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No tulips please, we're Dutch (Reuters)

No tulips please, we're Dutch (Reuters) 06/29/2004 05:13 PM
Reuters - Windmills, tulips and wooden shoes may be among the most beloved emblems of the Netherlands, but they are symbols the Dutch government hopes to avoid after it takes up the EU presidency, local media says.

Danger: Wooden Floors, Scooters -- and
Trouser Zips (Reuters)

Danger: Wooden Floors, Scooters -- and
Trouser Zips (Reuters) 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
Reuters - Clumsy Britons risk life and limb keeping up with the latest trends such as wooden flooring and micro-scooters -- providing they survive putting their trousers on in the morning.

Cosmo adds spirituality to sex and shoes
(Reuters)

Cosmo adds spirituality to sex and shoes
(Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - Is this a sign of the times or what? Cosmopolitan, the glossy bible of sex and shopping for the single girl, has launched a new monthly column on spirituality.

Angry thief stole 25 left shoes
(Reuters)

Angry thief stole 25 left shoes
(Reuters) 04/08/2005 07:51 AM
Reuters - A thief who stole 25 shoes got a little less than he or she bargained for after realising they were all for left feet.

Safety Shoes to Escape Tower Blocks?
(Reuters)

Safety Shoes to Escape Tower Blocks?
(Reuters) 07/13/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - Danish high-rise buildings could be fitted with safety shoes to help people escape in emergencies, after an inventor was inspired by images of people jumping from the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001.

Bosses in Staffer Shoes Get a Reality
Check (Reuters)

Bosses in Staffer Shoes Get a Reality
Check (Reuters) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters - Never having cleaned a bathroom in his life, Jonathan Tisch was down on his knees, scrubbing with great effort but little interest, under the watchful eye of his supervisor.

Sportswear maker launches expanding
shoes (Reuters)

Sportswear maker launches expanding
shoes (Reuters) 08/03/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - A U.S. sportswear maker has designed shoes that expand to fit a child's growing feet and says it is trying them out on cost-conscious German shoppers.

Thief Hopping Mad After Stealing 25 Left
Shoes (Reuters)

Thief Hopping Mad After Stealing 25 Left
Shoes (Reuters) 04/08/2005 07:50 AM
Reuters - A thief who stole 25 shoes got a little less than he or she bargained for after realizing they were all for left feet.

Windmills in the Sky

Windmills in the Sky 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
An Australian engineer envisions using clusters of hovering, high-altitude wind turbines to generate electricity. How close is his dream to getting off the ground? By David Cohn.

Let the Lion Lie Down With Tulips

Let the Lion Lie Down With Tulips 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
If teenagers are God's punishment for having sex, then deer are Nature's punishment for having lawns.

Google's heroes tilting at windmills

Google's heroes tilting at windmills 05/09/2004 11:22 AM
San Francisco Chronicle May 9 2004 2:38PM GMT

No, they're not going to be wooden

No, they're not going to be wooden 11/06/2003 02:38 PM
New nickels in 2004. Also, the mint is holding out the possibility of further changes after the Lewis and Clark designs are retired after 2005, so maybe they'll finally have the guts to use Felix Schlag's original design for the coin, with the oblique view of Monticello.

"Wooden Ferrari"

"Wooden Ferrari" 12/17/2003 09:35 AM

Wooden Ferrari

Wooden Ferrari 12/16/2003 02:04 AM
unsuspecting chunks of wood and turn them into a Ferrari .. I would not use it this way .. Is that a wooden Ferrari? .. s har man set det med .. Vroom!

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JustSystem Wooden Mousepads

JustSystem Wooden Mousepads 03/24/2005 04:51 AM

Wooden computer products are becoming more and more popular in Japan for some mysterious reason. The only wood names I could get from the product page were walnut and blackwood — you're on your own for the rest. Some of you would probably do the logical thing and say, "well what the hell, my desk is already wood," but keep in mind that not everyone has a wooden desk. Especially in Japan. If you want to pay some 3,500 yen for a mousepad, be my guest.

Press Release [JustSystem]

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The Giant Wooden Horse Did It!

The Giant Wooden Horse Did It! 01/22/2004 04:50 AM

The Adventure of the Wooden Spoon

The Adventure of the Wooden Spoon 05/19/2004 06:07 PM
"If this was Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, there would be a national outcry". Thousands of perso nal papers belonging to Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fetched $1.7 million at an auction Wednesday, with many items sold to private U.S. collectors. The auction was a great disappointment to scholars who had hoped the papers would be donated to a public institution. The archive also became entwined in a mystery worthy of Conan Doyle's fictional detective: the bizarre death of a lead ing Holmes scholar. Lancelyn Green, 50, was found dead in his bed on March 27, garroted with a shoelace tightened by a wooden spoon, and surrounded by stuffed toys. (more inside)

Wooden postage stamp from Switzerland

Wooden postage stamp from Switzerland 08/05/2004 12:10 PM
David sez: "Following the w ooden turntable comes the wooden postage stamp! 'On 7 September 2004, Swiss Post will issue its first-ever wooden stamp. Worth five Swiss francs, the "Swiss wood - naturally" stamp is dedicated to Swiss wood... is made of high-quality fir and is 0.7 mm thick.'"

"Yahoo! News reports, 'Designed by Thomas Rathgeb, a graphic artist who works for Swiss Post, the stamps are made from 120-year-old pines felled in northern Switzerland. 'Rathgeb's design focuses on the sustainability and uniqueness of this natural, living material — the structure of the wood, integrated into the contemporary design, produces a different picture on each stamp. This makes each stamp unique, just as each tree is unique,' said Swiss Post."

"The Swiss Post site offers a v ideo clip (WMV) of the production process." L ink

Every Nintendo in a polished wooden box
casemod

Every Nintendo in a polished wooden box
casemod 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
This guy deconstructed a NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, then built this beautiful polished wood enclosure for all of them so that they could coexist in one incongruous box. Link (via Waxy)

Wooden computers offer 'greener' desktop

Wooden computers offer 'greener' desktop 04/18/2004 09:28 PM
Nature Apr 19 2004 1:43AM GMT

Wooden laptops made from old wine-cases

Wooden laptops made from old wine-cases 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Cory Doctorow: These laptops have all of the plastic chassis components removed and replaced with handcrafted wooden pieces made from old Sicilian wine-cases. Link (Thanks, Uber-Review!)

Swiss Post Office Launches Wooden Stamp
(AP)

Swiss Post Office Launches Wooden Stamp
(AP) 08/05/2004 09:00 AM
AP - After producing stamps made of lace or smelling of chocolate, Switzerland's postal service has turned to the Alpine country's forests for inspiration.

It's All About the Shoes

It's All About the Shoes 09/07/2004 07:00 AM
When nearly all of his competitors were exporting work overseas, John Stollenwerk kept his 700 factory jobs in the United States -- but not for the reasons you'd think.

GNU/Shoes

GNU/Shoes 01/24/2004 10:36 PM
GNU Shoes 0.3/0.4 release

Blue Shoes

Blue Shoes 04/04/2005 11:08 AM

« One of the five bright blue towers of the 110 kV Salmisaari-Meilahti power line that crosses the seurasaarenselkä that are collectively called "Antti's Footsteps" in honor of their designer, Antti Nurmesniemi. Look at the tiny little people on the right for a sense of scale. [They were named from a HE contest with 1,496 entries and the winner receiving 5000 kWh of electricity for a year. The finalists were: Sinijätit, Johtokurki, Hattiwatit, Meritoverit (sea friends), Seireenit (sirens), Stadin Eiffelit (Eiffels of the city), Sinilinja (blue line), Sinimastot (blue masts), Virtaviivat (blood line) and Antin askeleet (Antti's footsteps).] »

Helsinki Energy seems to go out of it's way to make power plants look good as though people might notice, and perhaps blame them, that the Baltic is still so polluted that it's not recommended to eat Baltic fish more than once a week or the layer of smoggy gritty haze over the city today if they didn't sex them up a bit. As though they might be saying, "Yes, this is a coal fired power plant but, hey, aren't these lovely blue power lines beautiful?" Sure, they say the plants are ultra clean but the people they're saying that to probably don't live next to the strip mine somewhere with cheap labour and no pretty blue pylons. Energy production is with rare exception a dirty, ugly business that we'd all like to pretend that we don't participate in and depend on utterly each and every day. I look at those blue giants daily and I'm reminded of the lengths we will go in our own self-deceptions and how we are so willing to be fooled. We are energy junkies.

Nice shoes

Nice shoes 01/03/2004 02:06 PM

Medium Footwear's collection of new shoe designs look pretty cool. They seem right about midway between skate shoe and hipster shoe to me (tending towards hip for the sake of being hip), which is what I'm currently liking in my shoes.

I'd point to my favorite shoe designs, but their assy flash interface doesn't let me link directly to them.

Putting ourselves in their shoes

Putting ourselves in their shoes 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Juan Cole helps us imagine what life would be like in the United States under Iraq-like conditions. In terms of civilians killed -- it would be as if 9/11 happened every week.

Big Belly, Big Shoes

Big Belly, Big Shoes 05/31/2004 05:31 PM
This week's question: Why did my wife's feet grow a shoe size when she was pregnant?

Travelling Shoes

Travelling Shoes 03/21/2003 09:13 AM
it was Uday in the bunker .. Uday Out of the Picture? .. travellingshoes

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Of shoes and meat

Of shoes and meat 07/28/2004 06:17 AM

« Welcome to Missouri, land of meat and shoes! »

One of the most impressive things about Finns is their grasp of geography, well, at least all the ones I know seem to know far more detail about the planet we inhabit than any other people I've ever met, which is a dramatic contrast to Americans who seem to have some difficulty placing their own country on a political map of the world. If you read Finnish, you'll get a good chuckle out of Peter Elk's [Finnish expat living in NYC] look at an old geography book and it's descriptions of US states. If you don't read Finnish, well, the summary is that some of the state descriptions are pretty hilarious.

Missouri, for example, is the "Meat and Shoe State". I mean, Missouri, land of the Ozarks and home of the 'throwed[sic] roll', evokes the image of meat and shoes? Lambert's does have really great rolls if you remember to duck and their iced tea is served in giant mason jars with free refills, too. I kept trying to imagine of a reason why anyone on the planet would think of shoes and meat when describing Missouri. And then it dawned on me....Missouri! The Sho[e]-Me[at] State! Someone in Finland heard Shoe-Meat instead of Show-Me! Of course! :) The slogan has been in use for a long, long time and has a somewhat interesting origin.

The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.

Other versions of the "Show-Me" legend place the slogan's origin in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, the phrase was first employed as a term of ridicule and reproach. A miner's strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, "That man is from Missouri. You'll have to show him."

However the slogan originated, it has since passed into a different meaning entirely, and is now used to indicate the stalwart, conservative, noncredulous character of Missourians.

Well, in all honesty, Missouri did have the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis and the enormous stockyards in Kansas City [in Missouri in spite of the name] back before it became better known for Budweiser Beer and John Ashcroft. I think the new state slogan should read, "Missouri! We're real sorry about Ashcroft!" Or, maybe, "Missouri! Getting dumb sports fans drunk since 1906!" Missouri does have a few redeeming qualities like Mark Twain, Chuck Berry and Vincent Price. It's home, but as Mark Twain so wisely quipped, "Familiarity breeds contempt..." I will henceforth refer to it as the "Shoe-Meat State". :)

Because it's July [read everything is closed for summer holiday and I'm bored] and I'm, of course, far more entertained by state slogans than anyone probably should be, I'll offer a more honest selection of state slogans for the easily amused. They're notoriously bad and ridiculed all over the US [65k pdf] for being the product of horrible PR wonks.

• Alabama: Wonder Full ∴ Wonderful? Alabama? "Yes, we have indoor plumbing."
• Alaska: Beyond Your Dreams, Within Your Reach ∴ "Screwing the environment for your SUV"
• Arizona: The Grand Canyon State ∴ "Land of Cheap Smokes and Indian Reservations" Monument Valley is really a lot more stunning than the Grand Canyon.
• Arkansas: The Natural State ∴ Natural? Natural what? "If you can read this, you don't live here."
• California: Find Yourself Here ∴ ...because everyone here is as lost as you are. "California, the fruit and nut state!" or "Our women have more plastic than your car!".
• Colorado: (none) ∴ Colorado, home of the Coalition for the American Family and anti-gay everything. "If you don't ski, don't bother."
• Connecticut: Full of Surprises ∴ Boy, howdy, who wrote that nonsense? "Connecticut, Stepford wives and suburban stupor!" or "Massachussets is thattaway!"
• Delaware: It's Good Being First ∴ The state best known for it's very 'generous' tax structure, S-Corporations and cheap booze/outlet malls that people from adjoining states flock to. I guess they couldn't just say, "Hey! We're small, cheap and available!".
• Florida: (none) ∴ "Ask us about our grandchildren!" or "Watch out for that sinkhole!"
• Georgia: Georgia on My Mind ∴ We banned rum and slaves but not lawyers!
• Hawaii: Aloha ∴ BORING. "Islands of flaming hot magma!"
• Idaho: Potatoes. Tasty Destinations. ∴ Why not just get sponsored by Ore-Ida Corp and go with "When it says Ore-Ida, it's alll-righta."? or, even better, "Land of Tater Tots!".
• Illinois: Right Here. Right Now. ∴ Yeah, it's there alright. What happened to "Land of Lincoln"? "Illinois! Please remember the S is silent!"
• Iowa: Come Be Our Guest ∴ "Iowa! Be our guest as you surely won't stay!"
• Indiana: Enjoy Indiana ∴ It used to be "Wander Indiana" which had TV spots with an empty car toodling around the state which gave you the [realistic] impression that the state put you to sleep. "Indiana! Enjoy our dullness!"
• Kansas: Simply Wonderful ∴ "Kansas! Drive faster, daddy! Faster!" The only thing more boring than driving across Kansas is driving across Wyoming.
• Kentucky: It's That Friendly ∴ "Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names"
• Louisiana: Come as You Are. Leave Different. ∴ "It's not new and it doesn't lean!"
• Maine: It Must Be Maine ∴ "Every visitor gets a free L.L. Bean Boat Tote!"
• Maryland: (none) ∴ "Crab cakes and crabs."
• Massachusetts: Make It Yours ∴ "Taxachusetts! Our Taxes Are Lower Than Finland's (For Most Tax Brackets)"
• Michigan: Great Lakes. Great Times. ∴ "First Line Of Defense From The Canadians" or "All your crap cars are belong to us!"
• Minnesota: Explore Minnesota ∴ "And don't forget the bug spray!" or "10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000 mosquitoes"
• Mississippi: Feels Like Coming Home ∴ "Come Visit And Feel Better About Where You Live"
• Missouri: Where the Rivers Run ∴ "Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work" or "We're sorry about Ashcroft!"
• Montana: Travel Montana ∴ "Home of the Unabomber and christian militias"
• Nebraska: Possibilities...Endless ∴ "Ask About Our State Motto Contest..."
• Nevada: Wide Open ∴ Gotta wonder what the guy who made that one up was looking at. "Home of the mushroom cloud!"
• New Hampshire: Make Up for Lost Time ∴ "Go Away"
• New Jersey: The Perfect Getaway ∴ What a perfect motto for a state filled with gangsters! "Hey, Guy! Whatchoolookinat?"
• New Mexico: Land of Enchantment ∴ "Atomic bombs and Aliens! Coincidence? We think not!"
• New York: I ♥ NY (I Love New York) ∴ "Give us your wallet!"
• North Carolina: A Better Place to Be ∴ "Come smokem peace pipe!"
• North Dakota: Legendary ∴ "We still have at least 50 residents!"
• Ohio: So Much to Discover ∴ "Ohio! The state next to Indiana!"
• Oklahoma: Native America ∴ "Just like the musical only without the singing!"
• Oregon: We Love Dreamers ∴ "We hate Californians!"
• Pennsylvania: The State of Independence ∴ "Cook With Coal!"
• Rhode Island: (various) ∴ "We aren't really an island!"
• South Carolina: Smiling Faces. Beautiful Places. ∴ "We didn't surrender to those Damn Yankees!"
• South Dakota: Great Faces. Great Places. ∴ "250 miles to the nearest rest stop!"
• Tennessee: (none) ∴ "The edumacation state!"
• Texas: It's Like a Whole Other Country ∴ It sure is y'all. We all wish it were another country, too. "Si! Hablo Ingles!"
• Utah: (none) ∴ "We're on a mission from god" or "Dry in every way imaginable"
• Vermont: (none) ∴ "Come peep and leave"
• Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers ∴ "We have ponies"
• Washington: (none) ∴ "Home of Apples and Microsoft"
• West Virginia: Wild and Wonderful ∴ "Kissin' Cousins!"
• Wisconsin: Stay Just a Little Bit Longer ∴ "Come cut some cheese!"
• Wyoming: (none) ∴ "Why are you here?"

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes?

How Much Computing Will You Wear In Your
Shoes? 05/06/2004 01:32 AM
Forget gimmicky tricks like the "air pump" in the tongue or blinking lights on the back of sneakers, now companies like Adidas are working on "smart" shoes that include sophisticated sensors, a microprocessor and an electric motor to monitor how the shoe is responding to whatever the wearer is doing and adjust the shoe on the fly. That is, if the compression of the base of the shoe is too soft or too hard, it will adjust to make it better, lessening the wear and tear on a runner's knees. Like those blinking lights on shoes that are popular with kids, it appears this sneaker will come with some blinking lights too - but they'll serve a purpose: displaying the "settings" of your sneakers. This may be the first shoe that needs its own CD-ROM instruction manual. Don't think shoe technology ends here, either. This is just the start of where some people see these smart shoes going. Some are even predicting that, for all the hype about wearable computing, the best place to put such processing power is in the shoe.

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes

Karma? Top Floor, Next to Shoes 07/25/2004 04:04 AM
In Chelsea, a museum dedicated to the art of the spiritual path opens in a former temple of commerce.

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes

Adidas 1 Self-Adapting Shoes 05/06/2004 07:13 AM
The Times' Circuits section accidentally reports about something interesting this morning when they talk about the development of the new 'Adidas 1' self-adapting running shoe. Although the article is too busy getting quotes from Rob Enderle to actually break down what exactly the shoes do to adapt, I was able...

Report: $250 shoes to have computer

Report: $250 shoes to have computer 05/06/2004 08:40 AM
CNN May 6 2004 12:21PM GMT

Can these running shoes outsmart you?

Can these running shoes outsmart you? 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Adidas delivers its athletic footwear of the future, a shoe designed around a microprocessor.
Photos: Watch them run

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes

Walk A Mile in Your Shoes 12/10/2003 11:29 AM
Walk A Mile project brings policymakers and people on assistance together. One of their programs is Living on Food Stamps, where policymakers try to eat for a month on the same amount of food stamps regular people receive. Here's how it went in Oregon, and some lessons learned by legislators.

Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health?

Wearing Shoes Bad For your Health? 04/01/2005 05:25 PM

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. "

"shoes for the kids in Afghanistan. " 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

Can't Get Bob Vila to Come By? A Suite
Tries to Fill His Shoes

Can't Get Bob Vila to Come By? A Suite
Tries to Fill His Shoes 04/15/2004 06:30 AM
When it comes to home improvement, a good blueprint can make all the difference. Professionals can use high-end software like AutoCad to figure out how wide to make a staircase or how far to extend a patio. But a product from Broderbund, 3D Home Architect Design Suite Deluxe 6, puts many of the same resources within reach of do-it-yourselfers, allowing them to make plans with near-professional precision.
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