On Location - One Room Configured 24 Ways - NYTimes.com
This room — the “maximum kitchen,” he calls it — and the “video game room” he was sitting in minutes before are just 2 of at least 24 different layouts that Mr. Chang, an architect, can impose on his 344-square-foot apartment, which he renovated last year. [...]
I’m having issues right now with my database so consider this theme temporary. Hopefully everything will be back to normal this week.
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Bronfman family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Came across that while reading about M.I.A. (she going out with the singer of The Exit, a member of the Bronfman family). They owe partly vivendi, seagram, warner, owed the montreal expos, the montreal canadians, John Labatt Ltd., the brewer; Noranda Inc., Canada's largest natural resources company; the Montreal [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave of Absence - washingtonpost.com
Watch the stock goes piiiiiiouuuuuuuu…
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs today announced that he will take a leave of absence as a result of health concerns.
(tags: marketing business apple finance)
HANDS OF A KILLER - michael cogliantry
Talk about a great use of point of view! Michael Cogliantry”s [...]
MARA | Nokia Research Center
The Mobile Augmented Reality Applications project explores utilizing camera equipped mobile devices as platforms for sensor-based, video see-through mobile augmented reality. The project also investigates new and exciting applications enabled by this technology, and UI solutions and paradigms motivated by the restrictions of the mobile devices.
(tags: research mobile technology innovation maps)
China [...]
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online
a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due [...]
Virgin Atlantic - 25th Birthday
Just because it's virgin. From R. Branson:
Who'd have thought 25 years ago that Virgin Atlantic would be the leading airline player it is today?
The inaugural flight, VS1 from Gatwick to Newark, New Jersey on 22nd June 1984, was a miracle in itself having been planned in just a few weeks.
Now, [...]
Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco
While the Occident can only dream of epayment, Japan already has 3 cards (maybe more) being used. See more links below.
Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for [...]
Objectified trailer
A peek at the upcoming design documentary "Objectified", by Gary Hustwit, the director of "Helvetica".
(tags: design)
Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons
This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion.
Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press "Nuke It!"
(tags: visualization information maps)
Sex industry making it through hard times as recession [...]
Microsoft wants you to throw a party for its Xbox
Microsoft is targeting women in their latest marketing efforts:
On a recent Saturday, about 1,000 women across the country moonlighted as marketers for Microsoft's newest Xbox services.
House cleaners, hairdressers, guidance counselors and IT technicians got a $150 pack of Xbox freebies for opening their homes to [...]
