There was a recent post on Slashdot that directed my attention to The Steampunk Workshop. The Steampunk Workshop is a fantastic website created by Jake von Slatt that features a growing number of creative projects to give modern (and perhaps discarded) things a more useful life with a distinctively retro flair.

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We get a small magazine insert in our local newspaper called American Profile.

The latest issue in today’s paper caught my attention with it’s cover story, Living Small: The big idea behind tiny houses.

It features both the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and the Small House Society of Iowa City, both of whom I wrote about back on January 12th. American Profile has an excellent article on this movement with lots of pictures.

It’s been awhile since my last update, I’ve been pretty busy lately.  But here’s a small one!

Apple featured it’s first iPhone commercial during the Academy Awards last night.  It features a variety of retro phones used in television and film starting right away with my personal favorite, the Western Electric 302.

Don’t tell Apple, but I’d rather have the first phone they showed in the commercial, not the last one…

Here is a eBay listing for a Nixie Tube clock kit, combining modern electronics with classic pre-LCD numerical display technology.

There is something comforting about the warm glow from a nixie tube and a clock seems like a perfect application to use them now.

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I’ve been enjoying the new series “Living with Ed” on HGTV starring actor Ed Begley, Jr, and his wife Rachelle Carson. Ed goes to near extremes along his path of earth friendly conservation, but the show has a very endearing quality and has also featured some good uses for old things.

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