Blog Pimping: Kevin Kelly’s ‘Street Use’

Posted by Paul Raven @ 09-05-2007 in Uncategorized

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:

chickenbag1

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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Book review: ‘Hunters of Dune’ by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Posted by Paul Raven @ 12-03-2007 in Book Reviews • Science Fiction

Herbert and Anderson's 'Hunters of Dune'

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It’s an exclusive!

Posted by Paul Raven @ 15-08-2006 in Essays • Science Fiction • Writing

Now, I’m not usually one to boast or crow. Continue reading “It’s an exclusive!”

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