70+ of the Best Free Fonts for Graphic Designers.- unstage

http://www.unstage.com/2010/02/70-of-the-best-free-fonts-for-graphic-designers/
Again, just really bookmarking this for my own use, but some of you may find it interesting.

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The Best of Core77: Our Favorites from 2009 - Core77

http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/the_best_of_core77_our_favorites_from_2009_15617.asp
Really I'm just posting this here to remind myself to read some of these at some point.

Designer creates iPlant - but does it work?

Is this the ultimate in air purification for the concerned, modern eco-aware young affluent parent type person, or an idiotic waste of the earth's resources?

Genius!

 

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Hmmm.....

 

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What a piece of cr@p.

 

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This would be the perfect receptacle for some rodent posteriors.

 

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This is simply too good to miss. It's called Andrea. Everybody say hi!

Based on experiments performed by RTP Labs, Andrea improves the efficiency of formaldehyde removal from the air relative to plants alone by 360%. Relative to HEPA and carbon filters, comparison between the RTP Labs data and literature data show an improvement in formaldehyde filtration efficiency of 4400%.

What do you think? It seems he's using the soil as a filtration medium by forcing air through it, as well as whatever the plant is doing (respiring, photosynthesising, one of them). When you read the Science Bit, it seems plausible - but I admit, I'm completely sceptical and so I'm going to query the fact that he talks about efficiencies rather than total throughput.

So, is it an effective tool for the concerned modern... person, or an idiotic waste of the earth's resources? Damn, I should've turned this into a poll.