Jeff Guin

Savvy individuals are looking for ways to use lists to further their personal/professional agendas, and while we are all still learning how to harness the power of this new feature, here are a few ideas to get the creative juices flowing. - Jeff Guin

"We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"His intention was to turn it into a “completely designed space,” he said — one that was finished right down to the refrigerator door — but there was a catch: he had only $5,000 to spend. Also, because the apartment was a rental, the renovation couldn’t be structural and it had to be portable. For inspiration, Mr. Miller looked to the design of the 1970s, he said, which had “a populist luxury: polyester, Pop Art, plastic.”" - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"Last year we didn't go home to Natchitoches, La. for Christmas. It was the first time in over two decades I hadn't spent Christmas in Natchitoches, and it totally threw my Christmas mojo off." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"GLASGOW - Canadian laser wizard Douglas Pritchard surveys Glasgow from a glittering development on the River Clyde. On the far side of a channel lies the shiny, bulging shape of the science centre, like an aluminum amoeba that has swallowed something large and stopped to sleep it off. Beside it stands the new glass-and-steel headquarters of BBC Scotland and, farther off, the clustered metal shells of Glasgow's concert hall. This stretch of river is one of Britain's most transformed environments. In Glasgow's industrial heyday, the river was packed with shipping and from its yards came the greatest ships afloat. Pritchard, an architect by training, is acutely alive to the flow of time as it erodes the structures of the past. His work is to prevent it, and where he can't, to create a record so perfect and accessible that anyone could visit it at home on their computer. His Glasgow imaging team has seized the global lead in an esoteric craft - using laser beams to scan built objects into three-dimensional models..."" - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

"In 83 years, both whites and blacks have rejected it. It has been protested against, relocated and vandalized. It has also transformed from an artistic pariah into one of the most important relics of Louisiana history. The first statue of a black man in America, known as Uncle Jack, has welcomed visitors to the LSU Rural Life Museum since 1974 and has drawn national attention since it was first erected. The statue was ranked No. 46 in a list of the “100 Most Notorious National Monuments” in the 1999 book “Lies Across America.” Since 1999, the Rural Life Museum has changed the layout of its facilities, making the statue a central exhibit. But the museum plans to move the sculpture 60 feet from its current location within a few months. The move will take Uncle Jack from the center of an inaccessible car path into the main complex of buildings." - Jeff Guin from Bookmarklet

The rake idea is really rather ingenious, I think. - Jeff Guin from email

I am guilty of the Duct Tape to fix the fridge door shelf and the zip ties to fix anything else - Christian Burns