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PRESTO Recording Corporation was a power-house company in the broadcast and recording industry, and most radio stations and networks that made use of disc recorders for delayed broadcast, or air checks, etc., were users of PRESTO EQUIPMENT. All of the major broadcast network headquarters, as well as many recording studios used PRESTO recorders. Check out the Presto History Page (via linkfilter.net)
Pupils as young as four have been banned from taking pencil cases to school - in case they are used to smuggle sharp weapons. The drastic action was taken after a boy was cut with a letter opener during "boisterous play". Paul Starkie, aged nine, suffered minor cuts to his chest and leg following the incident at St Anne's Primary School, Denton, earlier this week. Teachers discovered that the steel blade had been brought into school hidden in a pencil case. Now all 209 girls and boys at the Tameside school have been banned from taking pencil cases and their contents into the classroom to prevent any other "potentially harmful instruments" being brought into the school.
Pencil sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child's neck. Read the news story in Manchester Online 9th Dec. 2005. (via zerointelligence and pencil revolution)
Batoen: Dragon Quest Battle Pencils! "Much like Pokemon is short for Pocket Monsters, Batoen is short for Battle Pencils... just the word for pencil in Japanese is enpitsu. It's a simple idea. Take pencils, write stuff on each of the sides, so that the pencil becomes a sort of six-sided die. You roll the pencil and the pencil, which represents a monster from Dragon Quest, does something, like damage or healing of hp, or other interesting effects" read more in the revecess blog (via boing boing) [see also pencil cricket]
Signpaintr pool -- cool signs on flickr. ('Bargains Galore!' from nevada photos)
Sho Card Writing a photoset on flickr, created by pantufla
THINK and TALK -- sterling silver earrings and pendant handcrafted and designed by Chao and Eero Jewel. "Think and Talk come from my long history with comic books. I have collected comics for about 15 years, and I have studied the icons and symbols used in comics. I did my graduate work about the similarities and differences between icons in jewelry and comics." Eero Jewel (via media-digest.com)
The Dilbert Blog "In today’s blog entry I will teach you how to write humor, thus removing the mystery and in the process turning you into a joyless zombie, albeit a witty one. I wrote on this topic more extensively in my book, The Joy of Work. So I'll just give you the highlights here. The core of humor is what I call the 2-of-6 rule. In order for something to be funny, you need at least two of the following elements:
TWO-YEAR INK SUPPLY can be carried in a fountain pen invented by L. J. Biro, an Argentine newspaper man from Hungary. The writing point is an unbreakable ball bearing to which a gelatinous quick-drying ink is fed from a copper tube. Composition of the ink is not divulged, but is supposedly a combination of glycerin and anilin fed from two copper tubes. The pen is sealed and can be refilled only by the manufacturer. The inventor claims the pen will not leak at high altitudes, and that one filling lasts one to two years.
Lego Set 488-1 -- "1 x 1 bricks with letters" were introduced in 1966. Learn all about Lego at bricklink.com, the unofficial LEGO(R) Marketplace.
"The TUI technology enables a reader to press the pictures and words on the regular printed ink and paper page and retrieve digital content from an appliance. This technology, in essence, turns the printed material into a remote control to digital content." (via Strange new products)
Svalan Racer -- vintage Swedish bicycle catalog for sale on tradera auctions. (I am not bidding, and I don't know the seller.)
Gourmet Impression sells food embossers that let you squish arbitrary bitmaps into potatoes, pancakes, pizza and many other foodstuffs. (via boingboing)
"The felt-tip pen was invented by Sidney Rosenthal in 1953. This inventor from Richmond Hill, New York, placed a felt tip on the end of a small, stout bottle of permanent ink and discovered that the resulting marks saturated a heavy, absorbent surface, yielding rich color and permanence." Read more at bookrags.com
Blackmail Boxes - a photoset on Flickr created by edwingore (via boingboing.net)
via Letter -- Send real letter messages rather than just a greeting card. Buy letters to create words to display around your home.
superswede.se -- The Official Ronnie Peterson Website.
Scandinavian Raceway -- "When I started planning a future museum about the Scandinavian Raceway in Anderstorp back on June 15, 2004 it all seemed so far away, and now I am amazed at the speed with which it is progressing." Thyrone 'Ticko' Persson
warninglabelgenerator.com -- make your own Warning Label.
annaidde.se -- official website for Swedish singers Anna Stadling and Idde Schultz (Anna + Idde)
