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Sitting on the pot, pushing brown, descrating the throne, doing the doodly-squat, faxing a cigar to Castro, or whatever else you want to call it, it usually is our private moment of Zen.

However Monica Bonvicini came up with a design with preserves our privacy without obstructing us from the environment around us. Bonvicini’s ‘Don’t Miss a Sec’ is a public toilet built with walls of one-way mirrors. From the outside it looks like a large silver box, but inside is a toilet with a 360 degree view of the street around you.

It seems this toilet is “touring” through different cities, and will now be in the center of Rotterdam (Netherlands) until some time in November. I’m sure many of you have read about this before, so had I. But the moment I saw it in person, walked inside and started urinating while watching people walk by it amazed me how directly design had an impact on my immediate environment. It was sensational, I felt like I was starring in “Hollow Man” as I could watch world while being completely invisible to them! There is not much else I can say about

Anyone in the neighborhood should definitely take a look, because peeing in public never felt so good. The toilet is in the center of Rotterdam in front of the Stadhuis, and shouldn’t be hard to find.

Don’t know how one-way mirrors work? Read this

Yesterday Wordpress 2.3 was officially realeased, and which better time to give piksels.com site a visual overhaul than now? Wordpress 2.3 isn’t really a breakthrough release compared to 2.2, but definitely has some nice improvements (tag support!).

I am still working out the kinks, and getting all the plugins to work properly. Unfortunately I had to take down the site for an hour to get some major bugs sorted out. I still have a couple error’s here and there but should be all taken care of soon, so please forgive any nasty php errors you might see!

The site is slowly going to be getting some minor visual enhancements to make it oh so beautiful!  I can’t take credit for the great grid design, it was based on the popular Grid Focus design by Derek Punsalan . I have spent most of the time modifying the back-end of the theme to get it to work with dynamic sidebars, plugins, etc but once that is all sorted out will make something beautiful for the front end.

It’s been far too long since the last time I’ve written a post, my apologies. But I’ll be back on track writing posts on a regular basis soon as I get some important work out of the way. But until then I’m leaving you all with something to think about:

enjoy =)