A new poll finds that Fox is now the most trusted name in news. This is not, shall we say, an intuitive finding. And if you guessed there’s a catch: You’re right. “Most trusted,” in the context of this particular poll means a 49%/37% trust/don’t trust split — meaning Fox beats out CNN at 39/41, NBC at 35/44, CBS at 32/46, and ABC at 31/46. And, unsurprisingly, that 49% number for Fox is driven not by widespread trust, but by partisan polarization: 74% of Republicans trust Fox News, but no more than 23% of Republicans trust any of the other four sources. Democrats are the mirror image, with a majority trusting all of the other outlets and only 30% trusting Fox.

BumpTop is a full 3D experience with smooth, realistic physics, making your Mac’s desktop act more like the real desktop it’s sitting on.

Ok, their metho isn't A1. But who cares? That post is so trivial and interesting ;P

Then to cite the comment of a site user: "Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a picture of myself staring off in the distance, not smiling, without a shirt covering my rippling abs."

UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station that usually broadcasts on the frequency 4625 kHz (AM full carrier). It's known among radio listeners by the nickname The Buzzer. It features a short, monotonous About this sound buzz tone (help·info), repeating at a rate of approximately 25 tones per minute, for 24 hours per day. The station has been observed since around 1982.[1] In rare occasions, the buzzer signal is interrupted and a voice transmission in Russian takes place. Only three such events have been noted.

There is much speculation; however, the actual purpose of this station remains unknown.

Welcome to the Gates Notes

Since leaving my fulltime job at Microsoft to dedicate more time to our foundation, a lot of people have asked me what I'm working on. It often feels like I'm back in school, as I spend a lot of my time learning about issues I'm passionate about.

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The New York Times announced Wednesday that it intended to charge frequent readers for access to its Web site, a step being debated across the industry that nearly every major newspaper has so far feared to take. Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site without extra charge.

La Sape-La Societed es ambianceurest personnes elegantes, sometimes translated as the Society for the Advancement of Persons of Elegance-is nearly three decades old. The movement was born across the river in Congo-Brazzaville in the I970s, but it was in Zaire that it really made its mark, moving hand-inhand with the explosion of lingala music onto the international scene.

Fans of rival bands would compete to see who could look cooler, perfecting dance moves that allowed them to show off their socks on the disco floor or display the silk labels on the insides of their jackets. The greatest star of all, Papa Wemba-also known as "le Pape de la Sape"-launched one craze after another with his on-stage appearance

Drawing inspiration from the STM’s newly minted brand signature, “Mouvement collectif,” the design proposal by Leblanc + Turcotte + Spooner offers a modular, scalable solution. Featuring a self-supporting structure, the concept enables the manufacturing of base models, with the possibility of joining several units together to create variable-size configurations that can accommodate larger or smaller numbers of users.

The design features a communications column, which could house various components including dynamic digital displays and backlit advertising posters. An integrated solar power system will ensure lighting of shelters that cannot be connected to the power grid.

“Product design used to account for 80 percent of companies’ requests,” he said. “Now it has declined to about one-third of our total business. Design strategies and improving brands and services are becoming more important.”

Ideo designers also undertook a renewal project for TownePlace Suites, an extended-stay hotel by Marriott.

They changed the hotel’s lobby to make guests feel at home and renovated hotel rooms to create suites.

The Regali Senza Moneta (or Gifts Without Money) initiative, is a barter-based marketplace located in Turin, Italy. Participants can come together to exchange objects, services and knowledge. Money is banned from the market, which aims to affirm the value of exchange and create connections.

The Piccadilly Hotel has long been a stalwart of Kings Cross nightlife. From all black to beige and back again the club has been kept steadily with the times, reflecting the zeitgeist with aplomb. The latest revamp by Make (Patricia Bondin and Antionia Pesenti) breathes a gust of European cool into the upper bar while reasserting the lower internal bar as a nightclub where the DJ is king.

The brief was to resolve the acoustic issues that had prevented DJs from ramping up the sound, causing both the DJs and crowds to move away from the venue. The result is a cohesive space comprising several areas of activity that are entirely acoustically absorbent or neutral with even the metal treatment working as a sound barrier. The DJ has been brought back to central stage and the club has the look of a club, while upstairs the elegant Aviary is quietly kooky in a Danish design kind of style and a good place to start or end an evening.

Mr. Durant, 26, who works in online advertising, is part of a small New York subculture whose members seek good health through a selective return to the habits of their Paleolithic ancestors.

Or as he and some of his friends describe themselves, they are cavemen.

The caveman lifestyle, in Mr. Durant’s interpretation, involves eating large quantities of meat and then fasting between meals to approximate the lean times that his distant ancestors faced between hunts. Vegetables and fruit are fine, but he avoids foods like bread that were unavailable before the invention of agriculture. Mr. Durant believes the human body evolved for a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and his goal is to wean himself off what he sees as many millenniums of bad habits.

Case-mate, a designer of innovative accessories for mobile devices and electronics, today announced the launch of a new brand experience called I Make My Case. I Make My Case is the first Web site of its kind in the mobile accessories space that allows users to create their own original composition by re-mixing the designs of internationally-renowned graphic artists, including Joshua Davis, Deanne Cheuk, Thomas Hooper, Matt Moore, Hannah Stouffer, Ray Frenden, Anthony Yankovic, Nigel Dennis, Shadow Chen, Chuck Anderson and more. Consumers who want the end-result without the effort can purchase a pre-designed case from the site as well.

Designed for true customization, I Make My Case allows users to choose all elements of their case starting with the background color scheme and shade. From there they can pull in a variety of elements, including artist-rendered illustrations such as dinosaur skulls, gems and doodles to ink blots to images of hands and lips, just to name a few.

Levi’s and Opening Ceremony have joined forces to co-brand a unique new line of men’s and women’s products which will hit stores next month. Starting with a spring collection, the two retailers will launch a multi-season project featuring eight color fabric selections, including fuchsia, teal, lavender, beige, curry, olive, navy and white. The collaborative line will be launched during Fashion Week in all of Opening Ceremony’s stores, as well as the new Ace Hotel location. Beginning February 19th, the line will also be featured throughout the entire first floor of the Levi’s store in New York’s Union Square.

This is nothing new and I am not a Lagerfeld fan, but I somehow wish I had a bike just to buy one of those ….

For the fourth instalment of signature limited edition helmets, Jérôme Coste, the Creative Director behind Les Ateliers Ruby, teamed up with the unstoppable force of fashion nature, Karl Lagerfeld, in order to inaugurate the creation of eccentrically chic and impeccably crafted collector’s headgear in editions of merely twelve. This new fashionable take on the classic Pavillon Helmet introduced us to an impressive number of four versions which premiered at the Karl Lagerfeld Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 collection.

from PSFK: For The Love Of Bikes is a design collection by student Vanessa Marie Robinson. She’s created a number of unique products aimed at making the growing world of cycling better. Robinson’s creations include cycling gloves that offer increased visibility, messenger bags designed specifically for storage of otherwise cumbersome helmets, and a special bench that discreetly holds bike tools.

Featuring simple drawing and animation tools, Shidonni is a website that allows children to easily create and interact with characters of their own creation. With their parent’s permission, kids can also submit their favorite characters to the Shidonni team, who will translate the drawings – no matter how whimsical – into a custom stuffed plush toy.

Piscine de Pontoise, located in the Latin Quarter, is the oldest swimming pool in Paris. It was built in the 1930’s and is the perfect reflection of the “Sports” architecture at the time. Not only is the pool famous for its structure, but but also for the events it has hosted: a Cousteau diving session, Johnny Weismuller training sessions, a fashion show, and it was also the main set for a 90s French movie called “La piscine”.

At a time where there’s a lot of debate on how we should be transforming our cities to make them more sustainable and pleasurable to live in, one of the answers is in rehabilitating old structures instead of bringing them down. Piscine de Pontoise is a valuable example of why it’s a good idea to maintain old city buildings. The pool has kept up its charm and special features (2 floor balcony changing rooms, wrought iron railings and numerous pillars), but at the same time has evolved into a modern sports complex.