This wierds me out. Apparently AGA ranges are always on, so that you don't have to pre-heat the oven. According to the FAQ, it's not going to make the kitchen any hotter than adding "ten to twelve 100 watt light bulbs" to your kitchen. This "... invites people to congregate near it as they would the hearth of a fire." I'm not in a rush to buy one, but this is fascinating.
Link courtesy of funfurde.
Web Interest: July 2004 Archives
Although I really don't own any modern furniture, I really like looking at it. Here are some links of interest.
There are a lot of really interesting ideas in those links.
On an unrelated topic, I tried to bring blogging to work as a way for people to post internal information. No one understood the idea. I presented it well, but people have blogging == editorial stuck in their head. I think blogging == publishing. It's a really slick way to publish information, useful or otherwise. No one got it. Even Microsoft gets the concept of blogging ... my co-workers were kind of mystified. This idea isn't dead yet.
I am often amazed at my ignorance.
For instance, just today I learned all of Maine is south of the northermost border of Minnesota. In fact when I am in Ely,MN I am north of everyone in Maine. If you are having trouble figuring this out, remember the earth is a sphere.
It has also been claimed that 1/ 3 of all Canadians live south of Minneapolis. I can neither prove nor disprove this fact yet, though I am determined to.
I have been a Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox user for a very long time. I have to say these browsers keep getting better. The latest Firefox is especially good. I really like some of the extensions, including one that will synchronize bookmarks and another that will open a link in IE, for those IE only web sites. Adding search engines is also very cool. Now if only people would stop development of web sites that only work in IE.
