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Hawala, an ancient global financial honor-system

November 25, 2007 11:44am

#3, Defaulting would given you a short term gain at the expense of long term income.

It's like stealing something from a your family when you are named on the will. There is the short term gain from the thing you stole but then the long term (greater) loss of the value of the stuff in the will, and don't forget the social capital lost when one is disowned by the family.

Secret underground temple seized by police

November 25, 2007 10:53am

I love it! Who wants to build one in the US?

Streamlined Gadgets and Vehicles

November 11, 2007 8:28pm

Theo has it right, much easier to clean. It's a shame they don't make more consumer goods with metal instead of the plastic that tends to dominate. A case of "it's a bargain at twice the price (since it will last 4 times as long)"

Space Couture runway show

November 11, 2007 8:13pm

Some of these outfits make no sense, they have pieces of fabric that require gravity to stay in place! The black shawl thing over the shiny silver dress would only work if there were some type of tie down to attach the shawl to the dress. And the fabric masked thing would end up walking into pylons as the person wearing it wouldn't be able to see past the fabric floating in front of their face most of the time.

The lack of gravity seems like the primary consideration for space themed design. That could be abstracted out to the search for form and sense of place in the unbounded reaches of space. They could have worked suspension elements into the pieces, bowed plastic elements and bridge-like spans. Or use ultralight elements with airjets to inflate fanciful forms stitched into the design of the piece. Streamers of some form could be a design element acting as an acknowledgment of surroundings (through the ripples caused b the air currents) while tangibly alluding to roots in the relaxed shapes them strips of material would take most of the time.

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