Our commander-in-chief Graham Hill, who is currently schmoozing it up with the intelligentsia at TED, just sent us a mysterious missive from his BlackBerry: “Makes vending machines to give crows peanut in return for Crow makes hook with wire. Amazing vid.”
We were able to decrypt his message only with help from Boing Boing. The [...]
Ask is rumored to be considering switching to Google for search and subsequently downsizing its engineering team.
According to Silicon Alley Insider, Ask may abandon or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of using Google for its search results. Teoma has powered Ask since it was acquired in September 2001. The decision will result in [...]
We love Shigeru Ban, and were excited last September to see the first sketches of his new Shutter House condo project in New York. Now the project’s website has gone live and one can look at the plans and admire the renderings in detail. I usually gripe about flash, but this is also a [...]
For telecommuters and self-employed home-office dwellers (not to mention bloggers) who don’t have the luxury of a dedicated home office, having a suitable space to work that isn’t a desk next to your bed can be tricky. It’s important to have space dedicated to work, or at least somewhere to easily stash your stuff if [...]
Project Earth Day, an event organized by the USGBC Emerging Green Builders NY, is looking for a few good eco-savvy students to enter its 2nd Annual Student Competition. The questions you’ll need to ask yourself: How green are you? And how does your built environment inspire your fashion?
The challenge is to use an image or [...]
The City of Toronto and Zerofooprint have officially unveiled a new community-based weapon in the ongoing battle against climate change.
“It is up to all of us to do our part to minimize the impact of our day-to-day activities,” Mayor David Miller said yesterday at the launch. “Each of us can make a difference as [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if boats ran on something that is both clean and plentiful at sea? Like waves for example. That’s not so crazy, it seems: The latest offspring of the Mermaid family (see lower in this post for the whole family tree) is the Suntory Mermaid II, a wave-powered boat.
“This month, 69-year-old Japanese [...]
