Turns Out I can't Photograph Your Box

Wired is running an article about a guy making furniture out of FedEx boxes. FedEx is hitting him with a DMCA violation. Yes, the DMCA. Apparently they are not upset about the furniture itself but rather this site that he put up with pictures of his creation. His site looks down from traffic weight, but he also has a blog. Beds, desks, chairs, you name it. Back when I and my micreant friends where teenagers we used to save all of the dot matrix edge pieces for some unknown project that we never carried out. It's good to see him putting this crap to good use.

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