The Best Product Designs of 2005 | The winners of this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards represent the best of the best, using design to reinvent old product categories, revive tired brands, and simplify complicated products
Dave Pollard Tries 'Getting Things Done' | Another great post by Dave as he summarizes 'Getting Things Done' and discusses how he's going about implementing it.
Eat Grub | 1 grub is healthy, local, sustainable food for all 2 grub is food that supports community, justice, and sustainability 3 grub should be universal
June 19, 2004
50 Best Magazines | As ranked by the Chicago Tribune. The top 5 - Wired, Real Simple, The Economist, Cook's Illustrated, Esquire.
The H Magazine | Havana, Cuba is one of the most exciting places on earth. Its past, present and future are enigmatic and fascinating. It is an exuberant, nervy, complex city; a city with a deep cultural tradition that is constantly reinventing itself; a city on the edge. The H is the voice of Havana's urban life, its culture, its music. The H is a window onto the city that bubbles away behind the image that has hit the world,
beyond the rum, rhythm and rumba. The H is for a new generation of global travellers who are looking for the best in entertainment, fashion and food in Havana.
The H sees the world as a seamless marketplace where people
move from one destination to the next and, in the process, explore a variety of options, both established and undiscovered.
To be launched by the fall of 2004 The H will be at the forefront of identifying shifts in a new Havana culture.
March 16, 2004
Adventures with Chris Rock's Cell Phone Number | You'd think Chris would have let all these people know that he got a new number. Anyway, this is an intereting look into all the people that called for Chris over a short period of time.
Africa is Huge! | Comments (1)
| AfricaBlog shows how Africa dwarfs the US, Europe, China, India, Argentina and New Zeland combined.
September 04, 2003
Clouds & Elephants | Tony gives some interesting facts on the weight of clouds
August 31, 2003
In-N-Out Urge | Comments (1)
| photo gallery of a guy gorging himself on a 20 stack In-N-Out Burger. Damn I miss In-N-Out.. I wish they'd expand to the East Coast, or just Atlanta :-)
Mmm... McLobster | The McLobster would go great with some Pimp Juice (http://tradermike.net/movethecrowd/archives/2003/08/i_got_dat_dat_pimp_juice.php).
All-Expense Paid Trip to Brasil | A great opportunity to spend a month in Bahia Brasil! -- Travel Beyond Borders, the international travel magazine with a multicultural focus, is now accepting applications for its Multicultural Sojourn program to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil!
August 13, 2003
Video - Rubik's Cube Solved in 18 Seconds | Comments (2)
| Dude's quick! I used to be able to solve one in about a minute when I was a kid. After I memorized the solutions book of course. (via http://www.kottke.org/remainder/)
August 11, 2003
Hip-Hop on the Highway | Media mavens seeking examples of synergy, that elusive quality of corporate cross-pollination, might travel to the anonymous Bronx garage that houses the automotive operations of Funkmaster Flex. There, not far from where he grew up, the D.J. known for his Hot 97 radio show keeps his car collection and reigns over an expanding kingdom of automotive businesses.
LeBron vs. Hawks | You know your team is bad when you have to highlight the other team's rookie in order to sell tickets. Reminds me of the ads the Clippers used to run back when I was in LA -- 'come see Magic, Bird, Jordan...'
Light is a Drug | Just say no to light! This is an interesting article about the effects of light-polluted skies. The part about the stars is very true. I tripped out when I was in Hawai'i and looked up and saw tons of stars. I was like 'where did all those stars come from?'
Ballers Brawlin' | A funny story about Puffy's crew mixing it up with some Columbians in Ibiza. And all over some Brazilian model. The best part is the 'I'll make slippers out of you' quote uttered by one of the Columbians.
Is Promiscuity Innate? | A fancy study to tell us what we already know: This study provides the largest and most comprehensive test yet conducted on whether the sexes differ in the desire for sexual variety
July 10, 2003
The New Card Shark | The NY Times takes a look at how online gaming is changing the face of real-world poker tournaments. -- While the Las Vegas hype machine focused on the rags-to-riches tale of a man who parlayed a $40 entrance fee into a huge pot, many poker players recognized that the amateur's success signaled the arrival of a new age in the game. Mr. Moneymaker may never have been in the same room as other players in a tournament of Texas Hold'em poker, but he had played extensively online, where the game is faster but the money is just as real. He was as much a rookie as Ichiro Suzuki, who joined the Seattle Mariners after nine years in the Japanese major leagues.
July 04, 2003
HumanDescent | Some bugged-out, digitally altered animal pictures. (at least I hopethey've been altered) Check out the galleries too.
BBC Language Center | A multimedia, interactive site to help with learning French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and other European languages.
F#@k! | Once the English language’s most shocking, egregious, off-limits word, it’s become just another cultural noise, thrown around with the casualness of a summer softball, appearing on your TV, on your answering machine, at a newsstand near you, from the mouth of your son, your mom, your Congressman, your philosophy professor, your dentist, your waiter, your basic innocent virgin on the street.
Killer Car Stereo | I like a good system as much as the next guy, but this is just stupid!
June 20, 2003
Females get aroused by both sexes | A new study confirms what researchers have suspected for some time -- women may prefer to date one gender or the other, but they get sexually aroused by both.
June 17, 2003
Indigenous Cultures Photo Library | A collection of photos by Phil Borges, who says: My photographic projects are devoted to the welfare of indigenous and tribal people. My intention is to help bring attention to the value these cultures represent and the challenges they face.
May 28, 2003
Friendster.com | The site enables you to meet prospective dates exclusively through your friends. It works on the six-degrees-of-separation principle.
May 27, 2003
Lyrics Search | Help Dave find some contemporary music that's eloquent & moving.
Street Kids on the Net | Speaking of that language barrier - Here's a photoblog entry from Brasil which shows some street kids who are learning to use the internet at McDonald's.
