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The Rag And Bone Man. Paul’s unique contemporary style of craftsmanship combines the past with the present.

The Rag And Bone Man

Aged machinery, vehicle parts and modern scrap otherwise destined for the melting pot are collected from London’s scrap yards and grease shops, reworked, restored and re-energised into a wealth of bespoke objects. Using traditional metalwork techniques and his time-honoured machinery Paul interweaves the histories and identities of the parts he finds into new forms and functions. It’s his talent for channeling the character and quirks of every component, reinventing each element into the contemporary lighting, furniture and accessories, for which The Rag and Bone Man brand has become renowned The Rag and Bone Man reworks British traditions for a new generation of customers who are passionate about heritage, provenance and sustainability.

Lizzie Gossling is the other half of the dynamic duo behind the company and takes care of the business. Words by Jody Daunton // Another Escape. Foundation: Rapid Prototyping and Building Framework from ZURB. Untitled. Slavery Footprint - Made In A Free World. Personal Kanban 101. A Simple Personal Kanban What is Personal Kanban?

Personal Kanban 101

Personal Kanban is a simple way to visualize and control your work. Quick Links: Get the book! Despite our best intentions, life has a way of becoming complicated. That’s where Personal Kanban can help. Unlike other personal productivity tools, Personal Kanban is a pattern – it is not an edict. There are only two real rules with Personal Kanban: 1. 2. It’s just that simple. Follow the link below for the Personal Kanban 101 Slideshare – it goes into detail why Personal Kanban works, how to create one, and what to do with it. - meomi cloud house - PHPXref 0.7: WordPress. CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts. Art Monasticism - Nathan Rosquist. "Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality.

Art Monasticism - Nathan Rosquist

It's a Gigantic project. " —Joseph Beuys In contrast to other types of intentional community, monasticism is in decline in the global north.[1] Is it a social form that has lost its relevance to the developed, and increasingly secular world? If we consider monasticism as an exaptation (a useful by-product) of religion, we can ask the question: What would monasticism look like, applied to something other than religion? An art monastery utilizes monastic technology for art rather than religion.

Art monasticism considers: the monastery as an art form, art as a monastic tool. An art monastery provides an empty space in which an artmonk can progress as deeply as possible along a chosen path, using a set of traditional monastic tools. Cssmin.js. Cssmin.js is a JavaScript port of YUICompressor's CSS minifier.

cssmin.js

The motivation Minifying CSS helps reduce file sizes and makes your pages faster and your users happier. YUICompressor is cool but is written in Java, which can be a blocker for some folks - you know JVM, command line, classpaths... No more excuses, now you have a simple light JavaScript version. And as you know, JavaScript is everywhere, so you can run it however you want, integrate with your editor and so on. The links The integration If you want to integrate the library into your environment, it's really easy. Var result = YAHOO.compressor.cssmin(input_css_code); The credits Julien Lecomte - creator of YUICompressorIsaac Schlueter - he maintains the YUICompressor and is the author of the original cssmin utility which was ported to Java by Julien.

Ha, what about a quiz? UPDATE: For Ruby folks, there's a Ruby port from the Ryan Grove. XFN - XHTML Friends Network. XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.

XFN - XHTML Friends Network

In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. <a href=" rel="friend met">... To find out how to write and use XFN, or to write a program to generate or spider it, read the following sections: Socket Studios 2012.

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