Blog Pimping: Kevin Kelly’s ‘Street Use’
I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds - way more than most people seem to consider a plateful*. Some of them have three or four (or more) posts a day, but some of them update only very sporadically - which means when they do, it’s a rare treat.
A good example is Kevin Kelly’s ‘Street Use’. Named after that William Gibson quote I’m so fond of, it collects examples of people solving real-world problems using objects in ways that they were never originally intended for.
Today, we discover how to transport twenty live chickens on the back of a bicycle:
That’s ingenuity, Chinese style.
[* That's not a boast, just a statement of fact. Or possibly a cry for help, looked at another way.]
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May 9th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Oooh, that rocks. Thanks for the heads up. I’m at 235. What’s your count?
May 9th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Over 300; my therapist says I’m not supposed to talk about it…
May 9th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
well, I’m not counting the 80+ people on my friendslist on LJ, so if I add them, I think we’re at about the same level.
We definitely have a problem.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Dude.
That is precisely how I carry my daughters around.