Jalalabad's Fab Fi: How Junk Was Turned Into a High-Speed Wireless Network - Makeshift wifi - Gizmodo
Members of MIT's Bits and Atoms lab visited Afghanistan some time ago. While there, they showed locals how to turn pieces of board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans into reflectors for a wireless network. The result? Fab [...]
Surfstation - State Branding
"This image featuring the tourism logos for all 50 states is currently being passed around twitter. The general consensus is that NY and GA are coming up as the winners, and I'd even add Kentucky to the top of the list as well."
(tags: city usa branding)
Commune | Commune Design | About
Commune was [...]
Poland Looks Inward After Film Puts ‘Mall Girl’ Culture on View - NYTimes.com
Reminded me of teen prostitution in Japan…
They loiter at the mall for hours, young teenage girls selling their bodies in return for designer jeans, Nokia cell phones, even a pair of socks.
(tags: shopping culture poland business marketing)
IPad got owned: Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': [...]
"Secret" McMenu Item That's Sweeping SF, The Mc10:35 - The Consumerist
(tags: culture food)
Japadog to set up shop in NYC
Japadog kiosk owner Noriki Tamura is so encouraged by those incredibly long lineups in downtown Vancouver for his enormously popular Japanese sidewalk creations that he plans to set up shop in New York.
"I'm planning for the end [...]
15 Futuristic Plant Growing Design Concepts | WebEcoist
Not all of us own land for farming, but even urban dwellers can grow gardens and plants. There are more and more fantastic green living concepts being designed for people who want to try out their green thumb. Here are 15 fantastically futuristic plant growing design concepts.
(tags: products [...]
Facebook on Track for $1 Billion Revenue This Year
According to figures released today by the singularly focused blog Inside Facebook, the ubiquitous social network made upwards of $700 million in 2009 and is expected to reach a phenomenal $1 billion in revenues in 2010.
Year over year, Facebook's revenues have typically doubled, from $150 million in [...]
[VIDEO] Paradoxymoron (painting), by Patrick Hughes
This is a movie of a super-cool "painting" hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very similar). It's called "Paradoxymoron", by Patrick Hughes
(tags: art video brain interesting painting gallery)
Platos Vs. [...]
:: Stolen :: LDN new secret restaurant tagline is "inspired by others, cook by us"
From the Londonist: "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, right? Well, sneaking into the swelling ranks of London supper clubs and underground restaurants is the Stolen Supper Club, eager to flatter the hell out of the culinary world's most celebrated [...]
February 27, 2010 – 3:10 pm
Inside A Steampunk House | PlanetOddity.com
If you have a passion for Steampunk then Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaums home is an outstanding place on earth. The couple has authentically restored their Victorian home retaining its rich heritage and classic beauty while completely modernizing the homes systems. They changed the functional layout of their Victorian home [...]
February 26, 2010 – 3:10 pm
The 'Luxury Prime': How Luxury Changes People — HBS Working Knowledge
HBS professor Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou, an assistant professor at London Business School, suggest that luxury goods have an important effect on human behavior that is only now becoming clear—and that may have implications for addressing the continuation of objectionable choices among, for [...]
