Monthly Archives: May 2009
TheDieline.com: Coca-Cola Summer Cans
Coca-Cola has introduced 5 limited edition can designs for summer.
(tags: design products marketing)
A Pop-Up for Mom in Brooklyn - PSFK.com
With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, the folks at 303 GRAND in Williamsburg BK have curated a new pop-up shop dedicated solely to gifts for the matriarch in your family. Entitled “Thanks, [...]
FUZZYEYEBALLS : Some of my best friends are lousy plastic cameras » Camera Fashion » More than just cheap plastic cameras
crazy cool cameras
(tags: design Photography products)
beardarchy.jpg : My[confined]Space
i'm growing a beard and growing a beard is like buying a new car. as soon as you do, you begin to see everything that was hidden before, [...]
Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases.What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an [...]
Iwan Baan - photography
creazy cool!
(tags: design Photography)
Packing the Right Credit Card - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com
(tags: travel money finance)
A Brief History Of The Counter Culture | Manolith
“Hipsterism” becomes an affectation meaning no more than the clothes and income and literally just a fashion statement, bringing us to where we are now - where the counter culture has become the current [...]
Culture May Be Encoded in DNA | Wired Science
Knowledge is passed down directly from generation to generation in the animal kingdom as parents teach their children the things they will need to survive. But a new study has found that, even when the chain is broken, nature sometimes finds a way.
Zebra finches, which normally learn [...]
15 Extraordinary Mass Human Formations
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, [...]
The Japan Journal - Denim Delirium
hardcore denim fetishists may head further west to Okayama prefecture, the official pilgrimage site for artisanal jeans lovers. Long known for its dye and indigo industry, Okayama is home to over 100 family-owned denim factories that serve the nation's jeans designers plus vaulted Euro brands like Dior Homme and D&G. [...]
Microsoft to give away free Windows 7 for a year | mndaily.com - Serving the University of Minnesota Since 1900
On May 5th, general users will have access to an entire year of Microsoft's brand new operating system, Windows 7, for free! It is already available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. This version is [...]
Taking a P.C. To the Toilet - The New York Times
All the geniuses with computers love to tell you you can talk to people all over the world if you're on line. Who wants to? You want to talk to people all over the world? People don't talk to the guy next door. . . [...]