how sweet it was while it lasted! blogging may soon slip from my daily activities – i’ve been using google’s reader for a year now, and only recently i noticed that it was possible to make my favorite (‘starred’) items public, which places them into their own beautifully formatted albeit very vertical blog (mini-version above). […]
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pop-up products
with flat-pack all the rage, it seems like we are destined to make things that can compactly store themselves and pop into shape to serve our needs. two new advances demonstrate that you don’t always have to be the one that assembles it yourself: parisian researchers have developed miniature pieces of material that form three-dimensional […]
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living monument
the united states holocaust museum and google earth have partnered up to create a real monument to atrocity on earth – not one that is frozen in the past but one which testifies to the ongoing brutality around the world. first you have to download google earth, then you download the darfur layer, after which […]
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green pool
swimming is a wonderful sensory therapy, but most pools require chlorine or some other corrosive chemical to stay clean – except in europe, where total habitat has been making natural pools for twenty years, pools containing water gardens that keep the water clean through beneficial plants and microorganisms. now if only i had a big […]
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artists of the world, unite!
when i saw philip de vellis’ anti-hillary ad on youtube i realized for the first time that user-generated content could transform politics. his pro-obama spoof is a carefully crafted overlay of the robotic clinton onto the orwellian world of apple’s ad. having been viewed at least 3 million times, it is just as influential as […]
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flood watch
thanks to alex tingle’s flood maps i was able to create this animation of my house and global warming. each frame represents a sea level rise of 1 meter, and as you can see it doesn’t survive past 6 meters of so. on the positive side, my office seems to flood a little before. via […]
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scrap shoe
patagonia’s DIY mocassins are an amazing product: made from leather scraps, delivered in pieces and it’s up to the buyer to stitch them together using provided thread in the perforated patterns. no wonder it’s only $30!
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grown-your-own clothes
it’s everywhere: a chance we can replace the noisy, dangerous, dirty processes of production with biological growth. first germinating buildings, now clothing grown – actually fermented – from beer and wine, what next, electronics?
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