This blog will be on a brief hiatus while its author (me) ties the knot and then recovers from all the fun on a short trip. Thanks for reading and check back the week of July 26 for some new posts! Until then...
Navigate With Your Ears
Take an audio tour of New Orleans via the Open Sound project. Residents have recorded various sound clips that capture a particular niche of the city???with the help of project directors Heather Booth and Jacob Brancasi??? and upload them to an intera...
Scan and Print in 3D
via popularmechanics.com This video from the Popular Mechanics site demos some incredible technology. At about 2:35 in watch the 3-D printer produce a single piece in one session with individually functioning parts.
Stock Within Reach
Yesterday the high end furniture store (with the misleadingly plebeian name) Design Within Reach filed with the SEC to delist its stock from NASDAQ. According to the store's blog, this was a smart way for management to cut spending (by eliminating...
All About the Rock
During my daily Internet & Facebook time, I discovered this fab poster Maggie Fost, a fellow CCA alumna, designed for Merge Records.Subsequent browsing led to this trailer: Cue (indie) rock art induced head explosion!
The Uniform Project
I got an email from a style savvy friend this weekend about The Uniform Project, an inspiring sustainable fashion exercise cum fundraiser started by Sheena Matheiken. In May Matheiken began a year-long stint of wearing the same versatile, reversib...
Water, Water Everywhere
via korwater.com The options for reusable bottles have come a long way since the glory days of the classic Nalgene. Case in point these new BPA-free bottles from Kor, which feature snap-top lids, a smooth, thread-free drinking spout and transparen...
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My favorite financial blog, Planet Money, posted a story yesterday on the IMF's decision to issue a massive amount of bonds as a way to generate cash in our current non-liquid global economy. The bonds will be issued in Special Drawing Rights (SDR...
No Thanks
via tweetmybumper.com If you have a Twitter account and enjoy the counterproductive LAPD bumper stickers that say "Keep your eyes on the road," check out Tweet My Bumper. The site does have a catchy tagline: Follow me in traffic. Follow me on twit...
Coming Soon...
... to a parking lot near you: Carspaze! This company recently installed a large scale ad campaign inside the garage of a mall here in LA, thanks to its development of fire retardant materials which meet strict fire code standards. This one, for J...