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<center><b><font size=+4>Merry Christmas</font></b>
<br><font size=+1>this is the 1999 model</font></center>

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<p>A new solution to a pressing problem: what to do with all those worthless
CDs from our friends at AOL, Microsoft et. al. We all regret the shift
from Recyclable floppy disks to otherwise-useless CDROMs. Useless until
now.. This 1999 model is a real 3-d tree, which uses a <i>lot</i> more
CDs, and also is a <i>lot</i> harder to design and build than the original
<a href="christma-1997.html">1997
model</a>.
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<td WIDTH="50%">Under the hood; we designed this construction using a nifty
toy called <i><a href="christma-1999.html">coiinstruction</a></i> to play
with various possibilities.</td>
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<center><a href="christma-1997.html"><img SRC="cdtree-thumbnail.jpg" height=150 width=136 align=RIGHT></a></center>

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<td><a href="christma-1997.html">a peek back at 1997&nbsp;</a></td>
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<td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER><a href="http://members.xoom.com/beast_werks/CD.htm"><img SRC="alt-cdttree.jpg" height=167 width=125></a>Another
CDRom enhanced <a href="http://members.xoom.com/beast_werks/CD.htm">Christmas
Tree</a></td>

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<center><b>More CD solutions:</b></center>
If your disposal problem is not too severe, you might try <a href="http://www.neosoft.com/nikki/">Handicrafts&nbsp;</a>
<br>If you're into purely creative destruction, try <a href="http://hochwald.tripod.com/cd/cd.html">Microwaves</a>.
<br>A table centerpiece, also using CoinStruction, <a href="http://www.geocities.com/hazels_melody/CDROM.htm">with
instructions</a>
<br>A CD<a href="http://webusers.anet-stl.com/~everman/Glitter.jpg"> glitter
ball</a></td>
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<p>Thanks to Richard Greenberg for providing vast numbers of CDs from his
slush pile, as well as Dan and Joy Gaylord for more modest contributions,
and to Irene for finding CoinStruction, and to Steve Rotblatt for much
of the inspiration for the final design.
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