Wednesday linkfest
May 14th, 2008
- How to pick a new cell phone. Looking for a new verizon phone and this is the first useful website I’ve found.
- The inventor of my favorite phone. I love the old, solid, you can kill a person with it AT&T corded phones (Known as the Model 500). This is the guy who designed them.
- My favorite NYC bookstore is out of business. Was back in NYC recently and was sad to hear Gotham book mart is gone. At least landmarks 2nd avenue deli and shopsins made it back from the dead (Check out the design of shopsins amazing menu - pdf).
- History of the Brannock foot measuring device (you know the one).
- Man flies with jet powered wing. Straight from the sci-fi movies, this 48 year old man built a wing, that looks almost like a kind of jetpack and flies him around at almost 200mph.
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The design of shopsins menu is crap and the food looks awful too, in what way is it amazing?
Hi Jan - did you take grumpy pills this morning instead of happy pills? The menu is the work of a madman - but I love mad people. How can any single restaurant possible serve all this food? Good design its not, but the absurd number of choices, the insane layout, and the wacky names (e.g. “Blisters on my sisters”) certainly makes me want to eat there.
I have one of those old phones! It’s the one on my nightstand and it still works perfectly. Yes, you could kill someone with it (phones were common murder weapons on TV crime shows back in the sixties).
Dialing it feels good, and sounds good.