China’s still kicking ass and their inflation too.

“It was the fifth consecutive year that [China's] economy has grown over 10%, and the strongest growth since 1994.[...] Food costs are still the greatest concern in the country of 1.3 billion people. Food prices, which rose 12.3% last year, contributed 4 percentage points to the rise of the country’s consumer price index. The average price of poultry and related products ballooned 31.7% and egg prices rose 21.8%.”

Those who know me well know that I love everything that display information in a useful&original way. Those maps combining the travel time/house prices of London are simply awesome.

Surfing on the thin line of stupid and brilliant, here’s the handpresso! You love coffee. Your going in camping? Check this out! (Or it could be, you love coffee, you want to have it everywhere OR you love coffee and don’t have a coffee machine? OR …)

I think Richard Branson is simply amazing (I said it earlier, I say it again). An entrepreneur, but mostly, a dreamer. Virgin Galatic just unveiled their “new” plane for space travel. One of the possible commercial application (except space flight) is super-fast sub-orbital flight (London to Sydney in an hour and a half). Coming to a city nearby in 25 years.

FastCompany most innovative business people of 2007, featuring Tim Ferris (4HWW), Yves Béhar (Design Guru) and everybody’s favorite, Arnold Schwarzenegger (Governor&Terminator).

Artist of the day: Sublime 

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