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27th April 2006

License to Obscure

“For the last couple decades or so, automobile license plate design has become increasingly poor. In Minnesota, we’ve lived with the stylized lake shore design since the early 1980s. I have never cared for it much. I prefer the way license plates used to look–plain design, two contrasting colors, name of the state and a slogan, with large, easy-to-read numbers. Simple and clear.”

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27th April 2006

In Praise of Loopholes

“There’s something to be said for working smarter, and not harder, and humans have been looking for–and finding–loopholes to enable it for centuries. A look at some of our most celebrated loophole practitioners, and their tales.”

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27th April 2006

Caffenol film developer formulas

Did you know you can make your own black and white film developing solution from water, Arm & Hammer Washing Soda and Folger’s Coffee Crystals?

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