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Etsy seller Yokoo not only makes some pretty rad gigantic chunky knitwear, but she also gives good funny in her little "featured seller" interview: Please describe your creative process how, when, materials, etc. Well, Im not going to lie to you. A healthy dose of plagiarism never hurt anybody. When that falls flat, I find that taking my consciousness off of the process altogether really allows the problem to figure itself out. Opening refrigerator doors does wonders for the dormant mind. I would bet that there must be a sort of creative composite in coolant. I find that staring blankly into the back of the refrigerator wall usually releases a couple of pinned ideas to rub softly on the forefront of my head. Yokoo (Thanks, Robert!)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=fad5a2efe33d73ff96a57c82f41c19dep=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=fad5a2efe33d73ff96a57c82f41c19dep=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=fad5a2efe33d73ff96a57c82f41c19de" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

a href="http://www.dangerousdwarf.com/"Mongo the Magnificent./a quot;Out of nowhere, believing that it is good for the soul to have one insane idea a day, whether you need it or not, the notion of a dwarf private detective came to me [...] I considered such a character bizarre and absurd, unworkable and unpublishable, and thus a waste of time to spend and length of time trying to develop it. I kept searching, but the damn dwarf just wouldn't go away. [...] It was to be a satire. Halfway through, I discovered a key to the man's character was a simple quest to be taken seriously, for dignity. That touched me, and I started over again, this time doing it quot;straightquot; (or as straight as I'm able). I gave a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_the_Magnificent"Mongo/a dignity, and in return he gave me a career. The diverse background was, I thought, necessary in order to properly equip him in a quot;world of giantsquot;.quot;brbr a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Chesbro"George/a a href="http://www.myspace.com/georgechesbro"C/a. a href="http://www.bookslut.com/mystery_strumpet/2005_03_004667.php"Chesbro/a, RIP br / I'm not a great fan of mysteries (though I've read all of Holmes and most of Agatha Christie at various points), but I picked up one of Chesbro's books one day many years ago and it grew on me as I read it, they're subtle but strange and sweet (even though he puts that poor dwarf through the most horrific experiences, electrical tortures, sensory deprivation tanks, rabies and cholera). br / br / I randomly found his site tonight and saw that he died a few days ago... but also found out that he was a success with self-publishing, and that he continued Mongo on into stranger worlds in new books I haven't read yet.

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A couple of days ago, I was invited to spend the day at Nokia's Testing Labs at Farnborough, UK, being given a tour of the facilities and numerous demonstrations along the way. The aim was to spread the word about how rigorously Nokia test their handsets' hardware and on that front I was extremely impressed. AAS video podcast 37 is a fairly full 35 minutes of footage from the tour (taken on the N93 and N82, for those that are interested) and will let you see and hear what I saw. Enjoy.

(If the embedding below doesn't work for you then here's the direct (and slightly higher resolution) web-watch URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21695595&hl=en)
Did you know:

• Kevin Smith, Rob Johnson and their team 'break' around 2000 production handsets PER MODEL tested. Staggering.
• Each model has to pass over 200 different mechanical tests.
• Temperature testing takes place from -40 Centigrade to +85 Centigrade, a 135 degree range!
• The slow-motion camera used to film the drop tests runs at 100,000 frames per second, 2000 times faster than TV...
• Nokia test phone keys, d-pads and other moving parts up to a million times. Each, i.e. per physical phone.

Seeing what all Nokia's handsets have to go through in order to be approved for production gave me a new respect for the reliability and reputation of its hardware. Watch the video if you think I'm easily swayed.....
Special thanks again to Ray Haddow of Nokia for putting the tour together. Look out for more information from the test labs tour on AAS soon.
Steve Litchfield



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