now that's a toaster

i have been reading a book about one of the 20th century's industrial design icons, Brooks Stevens.

his designs and ideas shaped a great deal of american industrial design of the past 60 years or so, and is stuff affected basically every item in american households of that era. his shop is still in business, run by his son Kipp. they are even hiring.

for a few days i harbored fantasies of snagging a job there in their web and graphics department and spending the summer driving a 1955 Gaylord Grand Prix around the Wisconsin Dells, eating cheese curds and parking on the lake to make out.

speaking of cougars

here are a couple i love...

they are on ebay, so these links maybe come dated:

68 Cougar in that wonderful green gold - the same color as my thunderbird

and the interior of this 71 Cougar is just kick ass.

i really like the 67 - 72 Cougars - they were like a Mustang with a Thunderbird interior - the best of both worlds's for the Ford Motor company those years.

the Cougar eventually moved over to the Thunderbird platform completely, and then had that weird 90's re-invention as a Mistubishi Eclipse knock off.

ajax widgets

a collection of browser based widgets... boy, this space is getting crowded.

i am not sold on the usefulness of the browser based "desktop" - but then, not everyone has Tiger

here is a sample page i tried with ProtoPage - more to check the Ajax interactivity than anything else.

i am on an ecommerce project right now that we want to use a decent amount of ajax for, and i am trying to get a feel for the possible.

yes sir, taking the blog out for a test drive

seemed appropriate, and retrofuturist

obligitory link post:

might want to turn the headphones down