It is my goal that this web space be used for the examination of designed objects. Chindogu is a great starting place for this analysis because it a little river that leads to a great delta of ideas. Yet there are some obvious limitations to classifying objects as Chindogu, since many "real world", manufactured object break one or more of the ten tenants of Chindogu. Some real world object (regardless of how unuseless they are) make to the patent office, are for sale, do prejudice curtain demographics, and (the unthinkable) are used by people. Real world Chindogus are not innocent! Therefore, real world Chindogus need to have their own standard of classification. A standard that takes into account corporate motivation, intelectual property, metaphor, and humor. A standard that still embraces the purity that Chindogu gives us.
That standard, for our sake, shall be called... "Unuseless." With that I am glad to announce that we have purchased the domain name www.un-useless.com, and will be rebuilding, updating, and moving this blog to that location sometime early this summer. For now I will still post here, and will pray that it starts some discussion (you know who you are).
I leave you with this...
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