The New York Times is working on an API that will make the whole website “programmable, organisable”, adding layer of mash-ups to NYTimes content.

“When I start shooting bankrupt offices, I found it to be more archaeology than photography. Everywhere I went I found signs of life, interrupted.”

swissmiss turns 3

In the swissmiss products collection:
MyBox is based on a simple idea, a lockable desk that you can shut at the end of your working day and perhaps move next to the wall until you need it again. Designed by Iiro Viljanen. A good idea!

In the swissmiss products collection:
Reconditioned phone based on a vintage Bundespost design.

The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) is dedicated to a more perfectly spelling union.
“… we will be taking a road trip around the country to stamp out as many typos as we can find, in public signage and other venues.”

Fictional project wanting to send a GPS equiped suitcase around the world to draw a figure

The vehicle, which is due to be launched next year, will derive up to 75% of its power from photovoltaics mounted on its roof, and the rest from pedal power.

More on the solar rickshaw and other solar energy oriented projects (yachts, moto helmets, floating houses, …)

Iceland, [is] a melting pot that had contrived to combine humanity’s better qualities, offering a lesson for the rest of the world on how to live sensibly and cheerfully, free from cant and prejudice and taboo.