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No radio links this week, just three interesting articles on open-source hardware, serendipitous recommendations and how to unleash your creativity.

The Economist gives an introduction to open-source hardware featuring devices from openmoko, Chumby, Bug Labs et al.

A good post about how about typical recommendation systems on the web aren't about recommendation, but about prediction. They tend to do a good job of making consistent, safe recommendations but should be more open and serendipitous.

Capturing, challening, broadening, surrounding and "walk out the door for 20 minutes or so and see what happens to your thinking".

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