Thursday, February 02, 2006

Weird Inspiration Wednesday (yah - I know it's Thursday)

Hello!

Phew, man. New boss, no time. I feel my burdens have been lightened now that my semi-annual Board meeting has been completed (last weekend). Now that I have survived that I can work on other things.

I volunteered to present a badge at Brownie day in April. Its call "Making things go!". So I have been researching cute mechanical toys to make with balloons and elastics. Along the way I have found a few quirky sites that I just had to stash somewhere.

Check out Whatblog, cool and quirky. I love the wooden toy (click on the category "toys") whose head comes off and lets you see what they are thinking.

And how about a site to showcase mechanical toys made while bored at work with only materials found on hand? The site is called Deeperbeige.com, the area of the site I happened apon is called Bored at Work. My favourite is "walkything". Check out THAT ingenuity.

How about a deskpet? A Llama say? Check out akafab. I'll take a dodo in red.

What a funny quirky day.

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