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What is it with the future and octagonal sheets?

It is a stylistic device in Battlestar Galactica …

And now it re-appears in Wired’s Artifacts from the Future:

I’m all for style, but this just seems not thought through. Octagonal sheets will take at least twice as much time to be cut, and will produce quite unnecessary waste [...]

Nicht nur WIRED an sich ist spannend, sondern auch die Werbung, die darin gebracht wird. Es lohnt sich, daraus ein paar Spezialfälle hervorzuholen …