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Madness and Mother
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Jan
25th
Wed
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Trash Mountain, by Megan Whitmarsh

Trash Mountain, by Megan Whitmarsh

Jan
24th
Tue
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harpsichordshears writes:

guys…I own the EXACT SAME antique stool as this person on Hoarders

I wonder what this says about me…

…That merits at least swig of an extra extra dirty martini in the Hoarders drinking game!  

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pedrofernandes: Robert Hardgrave

pedrofernandes: Robert Hardgrave

Jan
23rd
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(Source: bloodandmilk)

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217lemurs writes: The rubber number pad out of a freeview box - found on the street in Whalley Range. Interesting to see how the colour is applied to the buttons - i.e. not very accurately.  Also curious to see that the numbers 6 and 9 have completely disappeared. That suggest avid viewing of ITV2 (channel 6), BBC4 (channel 9) and/or Babestation (channel 96). Fortunately there is no channel 69. The combination of cultural references is astonishing.

217lemurs writes:

The rubber number pad out of a freeview box - found on the street in Whalley Range.

Interesting to see how the colour is applied to the buttons - i.e. not very accurately. 

Also curious to see that the numbers 6 and 9 have completely disappeared. That suggest avid viewing of ITV2 (channel 6), BBC4 (channel 9) and/or Babestation (channel 96). Fortunately there is no channel 69. The combination of cultural references is astonishing.

Jan
22nd
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A new site for dumpster divers to come together and share trade tips, as well as pictures and stories of their finds.  

A new site for dumpster divers to come together and share trade tips, as well as pictures and stories of their finds.  

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thisisgrossnyc: Hoarders: NYC Edition. [Manhattan - UES]

thisisgrossnyc: Hoarders: NYC Edition. [Manhattan - UES]

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Is the Pumpkin Lady an Unsung Hero of Our Age of Waste?

The great Discard Studies just published a series of graphics about food waste that convey some pretty astounding information, like the fact that 40% of all food produced in the United States is wasted. One graphic, which includes information about what we can do to avoid wasting food includes this note: “‘Use-by’ expiration dates contain no information about food safety - most food stays good enough to eat long after that date passes.” It seems that the pumpkin lady was onto something after all!

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Jan
20th
Fri
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My own example is the stash of older computers I have kept in my university office. I have a least four or five and mostly use only one, the latest model. I remain attached to older machines that have been replaced so fast that I could neither learn everything from them, exhaust them as it were, or just trash them as I was advised to do. I have kept them with all their separate memories and data, out of a sense of nostalgic attachment. Today’s technology offers the spectacle of an elephants’ graveyard, of interest only for inhabitants of the third and fourth worlds or quasi-Luddites like me. Machines that are discarded but functional are figures of a stubborn non-death; they are muter than ghosts, those who do not know that they are dead, or vampires, who derive strength and powers from being dead. Obsolete machines are still alive in a sense, but are cold and dusty because left unused. This is why obsolescence takes us beyond the venerable category of the uncanny—its awkward survival is at best funny, or ironical. Devoid of melancholia, it points to the moment when both mourning and death are impossible.
— Jean-Michel Rabaté, “The Death of Freud: What Is to Be Preferred, Death or Obsolescence?” 
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(Source: blamechelsea)