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New Independent Lego Journal Launches
hfcs writes "Joe Meno, a Lego-junkie buddy of mine has just launched
BrickJournal, a new, independent journal for Lego fanatics, 'featuring HOWTOs, reviews, history and interviews with Lego engineers'. As mentioned over at
BoingBoing this morning, it's like 'a very, very, very specific version of Make!'." Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure.
"Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure"
so many things wrong with this sentence....
kinda makes sense to me, especially for modem users...you can read one while getting the other...or waiting for the slashdotting to pass, either way.
Geeze. I thought that folks had gotten carried away over Star Trek and M&M collecting. ... just wait 'till we see a new meaning of the phrase "block party weekend" :-)
Get some.
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No no no. The plural of "Lego engineer" is "Lego engineer".
It will be difficult to top the Lego Volvo http://car.kak.net/modules.php?file=article&name=n ews&op=modload&sid=1662
Are legos recyclible? If not are there any 'green' toy building bricks made from reclaimed plastic?
It's interesting that you would suggest that BrickJournal is bricking away gold, but I think that's just you dishing out brickbats. Perhaps you should consider a more helpful comment in the future. In other words, be a brick.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
My guess is that he means unofficial. E.g. independent from the company that produces said building blocks.
Does this mean they'll be featuring lego pr0nz??
australian project gutenberg is better than the original.
Suddenly Lego start selling boxes of cone pieces. Nothing but the cones.
I just had to share this with everyone on /. as everyone else I tell this to seems to make them chuckle...
My husband and I were working over the summer at Penn State and we were living in the crappy sublet right on the main street. It had no AC so we used fans the is sucked in some of the worst street grime you can imagine. So, one evening I came home from work to see him sitting on the floor with a whole little set-up - bowls of water, lots of paper towls, a toothbrush - and he had taken apart all of his LEGO things, washed each one piece by piece and put them back together.
He won't do the dishes, but he will wash his LEGO's. This mag is made for him, the Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL)!
But I wish they hadn't built their web server with legos. Sometimes, making things out of legos is (gasp) not practical. :(
A guy walks into a bar... well, I forgot the joke, but the punchline is that he's an alcoholic.
in my day you only had simple blocks and no figures and no wheels and it was so much more fun and kids these days get whole blocks already in the shape of a car and its all about Star Wars and Harry Potter and not about building and blah blah blah.... and even though i could easily look online or go to the store to see that basic sets and creative sets are still available or remember that minifigs and specialty pieces have been around for 20 years, i'm still going to just spout garbage and complain on slashdot... oh, and Bill Gates sucks
there, did i cover all the bases?
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
> what is the deal with people who like legos? it is like they missed a stage of their childhood or something.
Why does age matter in enjoyment of a toy that lets a person be creative??
What they used to build it with?
I have a really elegant proof for Fermat's last theorem. If this sig was only a bit longer...
It's always been quite natural to me that Lego is the company, and they make bricks. Lego bricks sounds fine; Legos doesn't, unless there's more than one company.
The plural form Legos appears to be an American thing, though. I'm sure I'm incorrectly capitalising the company name, anyway.
The answer is yes, Lego bricks are recyclable.
In 1984, I toured the Samsonite luggage factory in Ontario, which made Lego bricks under contract for the Canadian market. I got to see the grinders, the presses, and the other equipment that makes Lego.
One of the interesting things on the tour were the reject bins. Lego (unlike their cheap, plastic brick competitors) had a stringent quality control system in place. If a brick was not perfect in fit or finish, it was placed in reject bins.
Each production run was for a particular brick, and so the reject bin would be filled with, for example, the standard 2-row by 4-column red Lego blocks.
These bricks were collected, melted back into a solid blob of plastic, and then reground into a fine powder. This powder was then used to make new Lego blocks, indistinguishable in material strength and finish from those made of new plastic.
Unlike plastic pop bottles or tetrapak containers, which cannot be recycled into new bottles or containers, Lego bricks can be made into Lego bricks.
Incidentally, the Samsonite factory closed. The Lego bricks are made elsewhere nowadays.
I'm not sure if I'm being naiive, but I'll treat this as if it were not a troll.
Rather than looking at the pieces as limiting, I see the piece specifications as exactly the opposite. All of the pieces interconnect. The 'specialized' pieces are limited for basic construction, but they're great for accent. The remainder of the pieces follow a few _very_ simple rules. There are simple height, width, and depth constraints. There are a bunch of colours (not a ton, but enough, methinks). These constraints are applied with a great deal of consistency over a large number of different Lego pieces
Because of 'simple rules' and 'interconnectivity', I think that creativity is one of the few limiting factors.