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Corporate Connection v.2, 2003

Corporate Connection is the work of Zohar Manor-Abel a self declared typography geek, film maker wannabe, internet obsessed, photography enthusiast, non stop reader, hopeless musician, anti-corporate freak, free culture fighter.

Corporate Connection started in my first year of studies, as a small project to find out which brands were doing animal testings. Slowly it developed into the intricate nature of corporations, brands, consumerisms and the connections between them in about six months of research .

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I’ve been rearranging my home office today and needed a different laptop stand for my PowerBook. My old laptop stand required too much depth, which I didn’t have on the new desk. Instead of rushing into town and buying a new one, I grabbed some old material, a hot glue gun an made my own.

Materials:

• Plexiglas sheet with a curved edge
• old packing material like firm packing foam or expanded polystyrene (commonly known by the trade name Styrofoam)

Tools:

• ruler
• metal saw
• hot glue gun

Luckily I still had a nice clear acrylic Plexiglas sheet with a rounded edge which I found many years ago somewhere. The packing foam came from a LaCie disk. Nice to be able to recycling these oil based products. Based on the angle of my old laptop stand, I marked the cutting line on the two pieces of foam with a ruler. Depending on the laptop model an angle between 30-40 degree is probably optimal. With a metal saw I cut off the pieces. If you use Styrofoam, you might want to use a hot-wire foam cutter. The hot glue gun was then used to attach the foam to the Plexiglas sheet.
In total it didn’t take more than 15 minutes to make this simple laptop stand, which didn’t cost me anything except for 1/3 of a hot glue stick and a bit of electricity.

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Today my new office chair arrived, which I am using at home. After years of Ikea office chairs I decided to buy a good ergonomic chair for myself – the HAG Capisco. At work I am currently sitting on some cheap office chair which regularly causes back pain. The manager who bought it, is actually proud of the money he saved. Years ago I had the same problem and was able to convince them to get me and some colleagues Herman Miller ‘Mirra’ chairs. First the Mira worked very well but then after a couple of years problems started to come back. The Mirra, just like its more expensive big brother ‘Aeron’, is very comfortable but that caused me to move even less, which has not been good at all for my back muscles.

The Capisco follows a different concept. “The Saddle Chair” design of this chair is based on the dynamic sitting position of the horseman and is supposed to keep you and your back more active and flexible. The chair back is not intended for support.

Since the back muscles must be used for holding yourself upright, I am hoping that my back muscles will regain strength and help me to get rid of the occasional pain.

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Next time you are about to throw something into the trash bin, ask yourself ‘How can I recycle this’? If you don’t find a direct answer, don’t worry, there is a site which started from a bowl of pistachio nut shells. Just go to http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/ or the new sister site http://www.compostthis.co.uk/

via MDM*intake and Treehugger

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If you hear or read about the climate problems our tiny little blue planet is facing and then see the usual characters (bribed politicians and scientists) denying it, keep this in mind:

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

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