Treshr makes it easy to give things away, or, the other way around, find free stuff. Everyone has stuff they don’t need anymore. Maybe your child outgrew their old clothes, or you moved to a new place and have old furniture to get rid of. Whatever it is you’re looking for, someone somewhere is trying to throw it away. Treshr is basically a search engine for
Freecycle, a nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. [
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posted by netbros
on Oct 20, 2011 -
28 comments
Electric Junkyard Gamelan is the brainchild of bandleader and composer
Terry Dame, and fuses Dame's passions of composing, inventing and building. Originally inspired by traditional
Gamelan music from Bali, the group recycles and repurposes
everyday objects into musical instruments. While some of their songs do indeed resemble the hypnotic percussive melodies of a Balinese/Javanese gamelan orchestra (
The Nutbutter Challenge), other tunes strike out into new, distinctly urban American directions (
Ode to Fred Beans). Following the band's motto, "
Reuse, Recycle and ROCK," instruments are fashioned from coat hangers and rubber bands, bed frames, old farm equipment, turntable platters, clay pots, saw blades and truck springs. The "
Big Barp" rubber-band harp makes a particularly unusual sound.
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posted by ocherdraco
on Oct 12, 2009 -
5 comments
The Pacific theatre of World War 2 left many traces behind. The
shipwrecks of
Chuuk Lagoon are probably the most famous, but they're hardly the primary reminders of former military action present in the day-to-day lives of many Micronesians.
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posted by barnacles
on Oct 10, 2009 -
12 comments
The use of cardboard for things other than packaging is not new to the blue, from
detailed artwork to
furnature (and even
re-making the Tron light cycle scene), and now
computer cases.
Brenden Macaluso's design is not the first, with a
Japanese design from 2005 (the original site is down, but
Archive.org has a backup, with
more versions archived), and other
kludged fixes for an existing case missing parts.
Recompute wasn't the only cardboard case in the 2009
Greener Gadgets design competition. The other was
Cardboardcase, by Francesco Biasci and Martina Becattini, which is a more of a traditional computer case form. On the DIY side,
Instructables provides plans for a DIY cardboard laptop case.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 17, 2009 -
13 comments
Freecycling. Reducing the amount of trash we generate by connecting people who have things that they no longer want with people who want those same things. The only rule:
Every item posted must be free.
posted by grabbingsand
on Nov 18, 2003 -
31 comments
