• Are you ready for Skittles vodka? - Slashfood
  And you thought Skittles were just for eating. Turns out the candies are perfect for coloring/flavoring vodka.
  (tags: food culture ideas)
• Billboards That Look Back - NYTimes.com
  Entrepreneurs are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database.
  (tags: advertising marketing outdoor)
• Human Media Lab :: Queen’s University
  The Human Media Lab is Canada’s premier media laboratory. Its mandate is to develop disruptive technologies and new ways of working with computers that are viable 10 to 20 years from now. We are currently working on the design of Organic User Interfaces (
  (tags: design media research)
• Cities Around The Globe Half Their Operating Budgets By Installing Energy Saving Lamps ( streetlights,, carbon, dioxide,, co2,, echelon, corporation,, smart, Oslo,)
  In Canada, Quebec has installed 200 streetlights in its historical district, also as part of a trial. Over the next ten years, 1,000 Quebec lamps are going to be included.
• Echelon : Managed Street Lighting Networks
• Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area
  Scott is a guerrilla gardener, a member of a burgeoning movement of green enthusiasts who plant without approval on land that’s not theirs.
  (tags: environment activism culture)
• Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop - PSDTUTS
  (tags: photoshop tutorial)
• Illegal Art
  Suggestion Box is an 18” X 18” X 18” (45CM X 45CM X 45CM) cardboard box, painted white with “SUGGESTION” stenciled in black letters on four sides. The public is asked to make suggestions about anything they would like.
  (tags: art activism)
• CCTV Collective & Harsh Magazine: Frozen Study of a Disaster by Los Carpinteros
  Havana-based Cuban artists Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez, who make up the collective Los Carpinteros, created ‘In the Frozen Study of a Disaster’ — an apartment caught mid-explosion that looks like a bomb blast.
  (tags: art)
• First Look: OLPC XO-2
  The design will provide a right and left page in vertical format, a hinged laptop in horizontal format, and a flat, two-screen continuous surface for use in tablet mode. “Younger children will be able to use simple keyboards to get going, and older chil
  (tags: technology innovation business design)
• Dezeen » Blog Archive » BMW Art Cars
  Established in 1975, the BMW Art Car Collection now includes 16 works by prominent artists - including David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Litchenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol - each making a unique artistic statement about the app
  (tags: art cars)

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