Muzak Files for Bankruptcy | Media | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com
NEW YORK — Muzak Holdings LLC, the maker of elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday.
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The Online Photographer: The Trough of No Value
For some objects, what pertains would more accurately be called a trough of low value, not [...]

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Pay-what-you-like restaurant's recipe to beat the crunch | News
On the emergence of a new biz model for restaurant:
A LONDON restaurant is tackling the recession head-on by scrapping bills and letting customers pay what they want.
Peter Ilic, who owns the Little Bay restaurant group, will not present a single food bill to diners, leaving it [...]

MIT researchers make ‘sixth sense’ gadget - Technology - livemint.com
wtf?
The device can recognize items on store shelves, retrieving and projecting information about products or even providing quick signals to let users know which choices suit their tastes.
The gadget can look at an airplane ticket and let the user know whether the flight is on time, [...]

BLDGBLOG: Cardiopulmonary Spatialization
The idea that architecture might have medical effects on the people who experience it was the premise of a project by Marina Nicollier produced this year at Rice University.
In the project's accompanying documentation, Nicollier writes that we must learn "to create spaces that provide, through their experience and material substance, enough variability in [...]

Is Having More Than Two Children Environmentally Unfriendly? | PSFK
I'm all for controlled population growth and this article from PSFK sum it all.
While many of us wonder at the spectacle of a single mother who lives with her parents increasing her family size to 14, there is a growing discussion about the negative impact of [...]

Under the Needle: Building a foundation for future work
Twice laid off from architectural firms in the past year when work dried up, the 27-year-old was inspired by a public radio program's "Ask an Iraqi" show and Lucy's psychiatric help stand in the comic "Peanuts." Morefield decided to set up a booth, offer cheap advice on [...]

The Rise of Urban Farming Worldwide | PSFK
There’s something poignant about this photo of a former bank vault in Tokyo that’s been converted into a semi-automated urban farm. In Japan, urban agriculture is not only making good use of spaces where money used to be, it’s also compensating for the traditional farmers that its shrinking [...]

whspr! | Get Emails Without Revealing Your Email Address
What is whspr!?
Need to receive a message by email, but can't (or don't want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.
So what?
Here's an example: Say you want to advertise a job opening on Twitter, and you don't want to share [...]