Charles Apple

One day soon, every one of us in the newspaper business will either be laid off or will have taken some sort of buyout.

And I know the burning question that you have: When that day comes, what will happen to our newspaper racks? Will they languish on streetcorners, all forlorn and empty? Will they be carted off to the county dump?

Naaaah. We’ll find other uses for them.

For example…

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Perhaps we’ll turn them into barbeque grills:

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Or we could turn them into one of those city-wide art projects:

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Or use them to hold our computers:

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Or, as Birmingham News AME Scott Walker did, turn one into a multimedia monitor:

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We could use them as props in science fiction movies:

Before:

After:

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We could use them as dance partners at wedding receptions:

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We could use them in place of orange cones or barrels to help control traffic:

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Or — if Al Gore turns out to be wrong and global warming reverses itself — we could use them as protection against the next Ice Age:

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Read more about the rack grill here:
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/31/newspaper-rack-bbq-grill/

Read about that San Francisco art gallery project here:
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/051106.html

Read about the “Nice Rack” contest in Austin here:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Market/rack

Read about the computer holder here:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-computer-setups

Read about Scott Walker’s multimedia monitor here:
http://designondeadline.blogspot.com/2007/06/digital-newsstand_14.html

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