Damien Hirst, who holds the record for the highest auction art sale at 9,7 million pound, is to open his first shop, selling everything from a £250,000 charm bracelet to a painted plastic skull for £25,000.
(btw he allegedly also sold a diamond skull for 100 million…)

Rinspeed created the sQuba, the world’s first real submersible car.
They had released in 2004 a boat-car as well, the Splash.

BBH for Axe. Hillary’s an Obama supporter

Things I have learned in my life so far. “Currently on show at Deitch Projects‘ Grand Street gallery in New York is a new exhibition of work by Stefan Sagmeister. Entitled Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, the show is a continuation of Sagmeister’s book of the same name, published by Abrams Books this spring.”
some maxims I like:
15. Worrying solves nothing.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy. (made the list coz it kinda reminded me of Dodgeball: “I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don’t have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya… it feels phenomenal.”)

Interview with Thomas Enraght-Moony of Match.com. “There are about 92 million single people in the U.S […] and about 3 million of them pay a fee to an Internet-based dating service.” That’s like. Woah.

In Industry Standard, “a “market” is simulated whereby members place a bet on the probability that a future event will or will not occur.  They do so using “virtual currency” called “Standard Dollars”.  The probability of that event coming true is estimated based on “community consensus” calculated as the weighted average value of the bets placed for or against the prediction coming true.”
I remember an example in The Wisdom of Crowds about groups/companies (i forgot..) predicting political results that way that gave better results than Gallup pools.

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