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Strong feelings for knobs, switches and buttons

Photo of a pair of hands with a small, open, field notebook and fountain pen on the left and small, sleek, chrome colored TP–7 audio recorder on the right with a glass of red wine in the middle backObject of lust: TP–7 field recorder, via teenage.engineering

Help satisfy dmd's lust for beautiful functional objects? Difficulty level, been there, fiddled with that.

12/26/23
by taz

Object permanence?

Found ObjectsFound Objects by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, Have the things you find on the ground changed in the last 30 years?

03/16/22
by taz

Big Ideas

Brooklyn bridgeBrooklyn bridge by www.ownwayphotography.com (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, storybored asks, What are some real-life thefts of unusually large physical objects? Just curious as to how thieves manage to steal large things. What they stole and how they did it.

02/28/22
by taz

Asking for a friend.

black sock decorated with yellow and red evil looking eyes

Can I kill somebody with a sock and a hockey ball? She would prefer to disable, not to kill, but she's pretty ruthless.

02/23/22
by taz

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