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		<title>DIY Dodecahedral Calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been around for years (hah appropriate!) and lets you select a year then postscript or pdf output, in a variety of languages and regular or rhombic shaped output. It then generates a calendar kite (shown is one for 2008) which you print, then cut and glue together. You can see what one looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design A Roller Coaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can see, although it looks ok, my first go wasn&#8217;t a total success. There are 5 questions, each with three choices so that means a possible 3^5 = 729 different versions. On my second go I got hands up but I&#8217;m not saying how until I&#8217;ve sold it for a lot of money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFID Guardian- Protecting your privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is quite ingenious. There are some (not me) who believe that RFID represents a grave threat to mankind. These devices are used to simplify the tracking of goods when being transported and on shop shelves. Unlike a bar code which has to be scanned, an RFID responds to a signal and returns some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Style Your Door</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/style-your-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These aren&#8217;t cheap but they do look very stylish. Basically they are full door sized adhesive stickers that you put on doors to make your home look really different. There are 35 wildly differing and you could turn a cellar door into a balcony, view into a village. I think they&#8217;re really ingenious. Link]]></description>
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		<title>Human Powered Hovercraft</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/human-powered-hovercraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, the first hovercraft was invented here in the UK. I travelled on a commercial one in 1976 between England and France. It was fun and fast apart from the rough weather then. Now, this project Steam Boat Willy, named presumably after the first Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Cartoon is a hand built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pimp Your Credit Card</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/pimp-your-credit-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that this occurs on a student humour and pranks website (zug.com), it&#8217;s perhaps not meant to be taken too seriously but it certainly looks good. The idea is that credit cards are boring so why not jazz yours up with a new look. It&#8217;s perhaps better to try it first on an expired one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Design an ARG (Game) to help Cancer Research?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/can-you-design-an-arg-game-to-help-cancer-research/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/can-you-design-an-arg-game-to-help-cancer-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a competition with the deadline of November 16th 2007 so you have three weeks. After that the winning team (there must be at least three of you) gets a couple of thousand pounds to complete the design and launch it with the full and not inconsiderable marketing muscle of Cancer Research UK. Wikipedia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Device and Gadget User Guides Online</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/all-device-and-gadget-user-guides-online/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/all-device-and-gadget-user-guides-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty good resource. Every gadget, device, or appliance of anything more than the simplest comes with a manual which inevitably gets put in a drawer or lost. With safemanuals.com (I&#8217;m not sure if there are any manuals for safes!!!) you can go online and download the manual you need. I tried it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logo Redesigns- Good and Bad</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/logo-redesigns-good-and-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/logo-redesigns-good-and-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/20/logo-redesigns-good-and-bad/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Logos fascinate me- the way that a compact graphic image can project a company&#8217;s essence and being. Over time logos get redesigned to reflect changes and not always for the best. This site looks at 20 logos and gives them praise &#8230; or not! Excellent stuff. Link]]></description>
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		<title>30 seconds &#8211; Photos of Motorbike Models made from Watch Parts</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-photos-of-motorbike-models-made-from-watch-parts/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/30-seconds-photos-of-motorbike-models-made-from-watch-parts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 seconds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/07/30-seconds-photos-of-motorbike-models-made-from-watch-parts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a clock made from watch parts once, when I stayed in the Anjoa hotel in Leeds in 1991. The watch parts were arranged around the actual clock face i.e. decorative not functional. I think it cost me £35. The owner was selling them. These 16 motorbike models are also made from watch parts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Bots- Design your own Bot and Fight in an Arena</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/battle-bots-design-your-own-bot-and-fight-in-an-arena/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/battle-bots-design-your-own-bot-and-fight-in-an-arena/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/06/battle-bots-design-your-own-bot-and-fight-in-an-arena/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again I&#8217;ve combined two screens to give you a better flavour of what the game is about. The left screen is the Bot designer where you buy parts to build your bot- you need a body to start with then add armour plating and various guns. As your cash is limited to start with, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Fantasy Maps with Autorealm (Open Source)</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/design-fantasy-maps-with-autorealm-open-source/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/design-fantasy-maps-with-autorealm-open-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/15/design-fantasy-maps-with-autorealm-open-source/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The map shown was generated by Autorealm, a piece of open source software (for Windows). It is currently being rewritten to use a cross platform windowing library called WxWidgets so will eventually run on Mac and Linux. It&#8217;s a credible piece of software, only a few MBs download and installation is very easy. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Your own Roller Coaster</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/design-your-own-roller-coaster/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/design-your-own-roller-coaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s less than a month since I was on a couple of roller coasters at Blackpool pleasure beach and a fortnight since the same on Clacton-on-sea so this is kind of topical. You&#8217;ll need Java installed. It takes a few seconds to load and the programmer obviously enjoys writing &#8216;Please wait&#8217; type messages! This isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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