Saturday, August 6, 2011

Rudolf Brazda, 98, Dies; Survived Pink Triangle


via nytimes
“Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving man to wear the pink triangle — the emblem sewn onto the striped uniforms of the thousands of homosexuals sent to Nazi concentration camps, most of them to their deaths — died on Wednesday in Bantzenheim, in Alsace, France…”
Read the rest here.

QR Stenciler & Hobo Codes


Vegans Beware

via make
“The QR_STENCILER is a free, fully-automated utility which converts QR codes into vector-based stencil patterns suitable for laser-cutting. Additionally, we present QR_HOBO_CODES, a series of one hundred QR stencil designs which, covertly marked in urban spaces, may be used to warn people about danger or clue them into good situations...”
Read the rest here. The hobo codes make me smile!