February 2009
42 posts
“We need to rethink the notion that exclusivity equals expertise and consider the...”
– The Advantage of “Sharing All You Know” - PSFK.com
“[…] how the bees can be trained within minutes using Pavlov’s reflex to...”
– Pecha Kucha Daily » Blog Archive » Susana Soares
“[…] a temporary, build-your-own magazine shop, where patrons were given...”
– Bespoke Magazines at Heathrow Airport - PSFK.com
“These Brooklynites, most in their 20s and 30s, are hand-making pickles, cheeses...”
– New Culinary Movement Brewing in Brooklyn - PSFK.com
“Criticizes the system of motivating through reward, offering arguments for...”
– Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise and Other Bribes: Amazon.co.uk: Alfie Kohn: Books
“I am poor. It seems like wealthy people know some mantra I don’t. Do you know...”
– Ask A Urinal - Wisdom From Bathroom Graffitti » Dear Urinal: I am poor. It seems like wealthy people know some mantra I don’t. Do you know what it is?
“[…] remember that signing up for and opening an e-mail newsletter is a...”
– What Sells Online? Unsexy Newsletters - BusinessWeek
Amazon Exposes 1 Terrabyte of Public Data →
Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap “computing in the cloud” business that changed the computing…
“The Auto Assault-12 (AA-12) is an automatic 12-gauge shotgun that can fire 300...”
– Guns: Recoilless Auto Shotgun Fires 300 Rounds Per Minute, No Cleaning or Lube Required
“I saw real growth and optimism among the SaaS vendor crowd. I can usually tell...”
– The Other Decoupling Theory - ReadWriteWeb
Imagini Gets $13.5m To Work Out Your Personality... →
UK start-up Imagini has secured a significant $13.5 million in a second round of funding (the first round was undisclosed). The additional investment comes from Horizons Ventures, NorthZone…
“Imagini has an interesting technology called VisualDNA which effectively works...”
– Pictures of you - Imagini secures $13.5 million for its visual profiling
“The precise problem with the venture industry is too much cash in fact,...”
– Innovators Network: Friedman’s Bailout Op-ed Piece Unleashes A VC Firestorm
Los Penetrados, Santiago Sierra's political porn... →
“He has written computer models of rumor spreading and found that your average...”
– Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting | Fast Company
“In 1973 it suddenly became inexpensive and safe to have abortions, and millions...”
– Tell me a story - Blog - Startups + Marketing + Geekery
Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development... →
Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held for approval on many…
Amazing pictures of production at The Big Picture →
Srikanth Jalasutram, a graduate ID student at Georgia Tech, sends in this link from the Boston Globe’s Big Picture, called At Work. This from the Globe: “When the economy makes big news,…
Inflatable Diamond Grid Eco-Pavilion by Various... →
Various Architects recently designed this striking Renaissance Pavilion for a competition to create a mobile performance space for Yorkshire Forward. Based upon a set of structural…
The inside-out agency →
PR magnate Richard Edelman takes me to task for arguing in What Would Google Do? that PR people, like lawyers, can’t be Googlified. After saying nice things about the book, he adds: “But it is…
Design firm aims to turn doors into power sources →
Fluxxlab is an NYC-based design firm run by partners Jennifer Broutin and Carmen Trudell that focuses on “sustainable energy harvesting, specifically in the form of converting small amounts…
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You’ve never seen a soap opera like this before. I... →
Here’s something you don’t see every day, until now that is: a daily soap opera about the lives of two rocks. This one really has to be seen to be believed..
A creation of creative Brit Iain…
“Good designers are geeks. Bad designers are not geeks. Geeks are interested in...”
– Marc Newson Profile On BBC Imagine - PSFK.com
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys...”
– I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
“Thought of the Day: You can’t fight City Hall.”
– Twitter / DAVID_LYNCH
The Future (Present?) of Dating →
So true.
[Abstruse Goose via Fimoculous]
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“What should their realistic new objectives be? Well, here they are: food,...”
– ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
“Change is largely a self- [strictly system-] generated phenomenon”
– Herd - the hidden truth about who we are: Changing USA: 3 big ideas from Darwin
The Washington Post TimeSpace: Locate the News in... →
Is there finally a news outlet that steps into the information design terrain, which is seemingly dominated by The New York Times? TimeSpace [washingtonpost.com] is an interactive map that…
GREEN DEPOT Opens on the Bowery! →
Green Depot: How Do We See Green?
Last week the Inhabitat team was excited to attend The Green Depot opening party in New York City. The new flagship Green Depot retail store, located…
Compostmodern 09: Saul Griffith Runs the Numbers →
Boy, inventor and wind power advocate Saul Griffith sure knows how to win over his audience. Going against the advice of his graphic designer, he opens by showing this now-famous t-shirt…
Compostmodern 09: Allan Chochinov's 10-Step... →
In case you can’t see in that slide up there, Allan Chochinov is going to talk about Denting an Impossible Design Problem in 10 Sustainable Steps, something he did with a group of graduate…
The Sliding House by dRMM →
The Sliding House, by dRMM Architecture, may look like a simple timber barn or shed, and you may not be impressed by it — until you discover that it contains a surprise within it. The…
“A brand new concept for wheeled sports.”
– Inventist, Inc. - Orbitwheel
Slice™ Products | Ultra-sharp, High-tech Ceramic... →
“Unfortunately, we have an idea of market fundamentalism, which is now the...”
– The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros - The New York Review of Books
Understanding Why Companies Outsource Logistics ::... →
“OHAI! ”
– OHAI! « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
A portfolio instead of a diploma →
Teacher Mark Pullen wrote on his blog great thoughts on students leaving school with portfolios instead of just diplomas. The next day, he was reading What Would Google Do? and found that we agreed…
“After I was neutered, I figured, why not?”
– After I was neutered, « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?