Yesterday in Wired Blogs

• Game|Life reports that everyone’s least favorite games playing waffle iron is due for a $100 price cut in October. Which still makes it a couple hundred bucks more than I’m willing to pay, short of a miracle or God of War 3. • Hey, I know that robot! The Musical Monster That Ate Austin […]

Chinesefootbinding

• Game|Life reports that everyone's least favorite games playing waffle iron is due for a $100 price cut in October. Which still makes it a couple hundred bucks more than I'm willing to pay, short of a miracle or God of War 3.

• Hey, I know that robot! The Musical Monster That Ate Austin at Listening Post.

• This almost went on Table of Malcontents, but I threw Beschizza a bone instead: intricate clock or steampunk doomsday device? You decide. At Gadget Lab.

• We rarely have an opportunity to link Autopia, since they rarely talk about anything ToM concerns itself with very much. Plus, I don't drive, so all this talk about horsepower and cylinders is Martian Moon Man talk to me. Still, Nissan's new Pino is pretty damn cute.

• Chinese footbinding at Bodyhack. Please remember the immortal words of Feng Xun: "If you remove the shoes and bindings, the aesthetic feeling will be destroyed forever."