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Hack your world

First came the guerilla gardeners, sowing seeds and planting plants in public places without permission.

Then there were the guerilla benchers, installing street seats where the local authority had been too poor or too mean to do it themselves.

On the web, a growing community of civic hackers has been building sites on top of public information to mash it up in new ways that the publishers hadn’t imagined or didn’t have the means or motive to build.

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Simplicity: The humble vernacular kitchen timer

Nov 24 2007 Published by under Product design,Simplicity

Kitchen timer

Just twist and go.

No low-contrast LCD display.

No instruction booklet.

No learning curve.

No fiddly buttons.

No modes.

No batteries.

No battery cover to snap off or lose.

No battery changes.

No weedy digital beep-beep-beep.

£3 delivered.

This is simplicity. Does it really need to be any harder than this?

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