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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Crazy Wiring, Part 3


"QUANTUM SHOT" #291
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Read Part 1 and Part 2

Harvesting the latest crop of wiring nightmares

Apparently the call to simplify and to achieve "more with less", thus bringing about more order and sanity, is often lost amid the day-to-day IT and electrical implementation chaos. The goal of this series (other than to simply entertain) is to raise awareness about the abundance of tangled messes in the world and to establish the humanitarian fund dedicated to eradicating this blight from our Mother Earth. (well... maybe I've exaggerated it a bit, maybe the best way will be to approach first your own private miserable mess which you face every day and... take a picture of it and send it to us!)

Enjoy the new collection of pics that we've received from concerned readers:

First is a sampling of Bangkok wiring, courtesy of PolarInertia
(photos by Thomas Kalak)









(images credit: PolarInertia)

New Delhi, India:


(image credit: Ashish Malhotra)





Seoul, Korea:


(image credit: QuivivraVera)









(images credit: PolarInertia)


Electrician's Nightmares


(image credit: strangecosmos)

Here is the America's very own bundle, seen in Columbia, Missouri:


(image credit: B,K&G)

Something out of Rob Zombie electrician horror movie:


(image credit: mkuplens)

Meters from hell (in Cuernavaca, Mexico):


(image credit: rainy city)


This scene is so common on the streets of India, that we're wondering if these electricians know something we don't:



















A great page to check out is at Vibrant.com. They've harvested the latest crop of wiring nightmares:


(image credit: Cormac Phelan)



(image credit: n8foo)



(image credit: Vibrant)



(image credit: Andrew McKaskill)


Scary wiring is turned into even scarier monsters by Fuzzy Lightbulb Productions:




Another way to make art out of obsolete electrical set-ups is to create classy photography:


(image credit: M Kuplens)


Don't let your wires hang out:




We may have written about this before, but this computer "mushrooms" recipe will go well with the main "spaghetti wiring" course:



Ads playing along with wiring:


(original unknown)

CONTINUE TO NEXT PART!

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COMMENTS:

2 Comments:

Blogger Dana said...

Electrical engineers everywhere are having trouble breathing...

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Blogger Apocalypso Facto said...

That image of the Indian "electrician" is not uncommon here where I live in Venezuela. Every now and then you get to know these guys' abrupt end-of-lives via the local newspapers.

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