The storage limit increase at wordpress.com couldn’t have come at a better time!
I have just added over twenty more images to my home design scrapbook. All the images are thumb nailed to increase the page loading time. You can click on each image to view its full size. I do wish wordpress.com had an option for thumb nail size. The thumb nails would look better slightly larger than they are.
I enjoyed reading this N.Y Times article about entrepreneurial homeless people in Manhattan recycling books for profit. The system they have created is amazingly efficient and profitable.
Even in better days than these for books, the economy of publishing was bloated, based on guesswork, mercurial taste and the talents of people whose keenest interests rarely included making money. Book recycling in Manhattan is just the opposite, a perfectly efficient system with no fat at all: So many discarded books go from someone’s garbage to a scavenger to a bookseller and, often enough, land gently in someone else’s home.
It is a bit sad that, as literature increasingly becomes digitally distributed, these activities will cease to exist. I can hardly see these people walking around collecting unwanted digital books, full of DRM, on memory sticks and trying to resell those.
Another dark, but clever, government advertisement.
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I was against buying a house, because it meant we would have a stake in capitalism, and I believed private property had a limited future…
- Mark Dapin – Sex & Money
The Royal Poinciana at the Queensland State Library is the best I’ve seen. It doesn’t look that amazing from the board walk on the river; you really need to explore it to enjoy its beauty.
Yesterday’s Courier Mail had an article about a recently designed home at Tewantin on the Sunshine Coast.
I love the courtyard centric design, use of polished concrete and timber, raised lap pool (no need for fencing), high ceilings with mezzanine level, and the overall soft colour scheme. I personally would add lots of soft, rounded leaf plants, such as money trees, either in pots or surrounded by a garden bed of soft pebbles. Also, I would incorporate a large rain tank in the overall design.
The architecture was designed by Stephen Guthrie & Lindy Atkin of Bark Design.
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I found the picture on this Queensland Rail sign to be gruesome but surprisingly aesthetic.
