Too Much Awesome

I’m a sucker for things you can make with household materials. Cardboard, paper, rubberbands, whatever…if it’s cheap and available, I’ll try to make something out of it. Why spend money on something when you can get it for free? And origami fits the bill wonderfully.

There are many things that can be done with a sheet of paper. While “Kick Me” signs and those ridiculous fortune-teller doohickeys have gone out of style, the act of turning paper into a flying machine is still cool, and it is still a mark of one’s intellect. Paper airplanes are cheap, easily replaceable toys [...]

I used to mess around with my dad’s work papers when I was little. I didn’t get in trouble, though, because my dad worked at a technology conglomerate that were concerned with putting everything on computers and the Internet. Now, paper is about half as important to the professional world as it was 30 years [...]