Today How ball bearings are made-
Alan at Hacked Gadgets found this neat video that shows how ball bearings are made. All of that work to make what seems like a simple part! [via Hacked Gadgets]
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- Today Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, THIS weekend!
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More info on their website.
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- Today Smallest zine in the world
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Last year, I gave family members letters from the World's Smallest Postal Service for Christmas. They are awesome and make a fun gift.
Spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool is this professed "smallest zine in the world," an art "zine" done with eraser-carved stamps. I love the idea of doing eraser carvings on pencil heads. I've done them using art gum erasers, but never tried pencils.
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- Today Awesome ultra-low-tech DIY movie making method
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This minute-long short by Mindfruit Studios is called "Memoirs of a Scanner," and was made using only a scanner, plus software to stitch the still images together into a movie. It has characters, special effects, and a coherent plot that tells the story of an episode in the life of a business office. From the copier's perspective. [via Neatorama]
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- Today In the Makers Market: Build-Your-Own Ratmobile kit
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Xylocopa Design just added a Build-Your-Own Ratmobile kit in their Makers Market store. Keep in mind the ratmobile pictured above is a fully painted version. Your kit will arrive unassembled, and unpainted, but that's half the fun!
Construct your very own ratmobile in minutes with this easy-to-build kit by Xylocopa Design. Your friends will be envious, and your enemies will flee (or is it the other way around?) when they see the glory of this fantastic little vehicle. Comes as an unpainted, un... (more)
- Today Synchronous hackathon March 20-21
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The cats at Hackerspaces.org are calling for a worldwide hackathon in hackerspaces the weekend of March 20th, 2010. These events are the third weekend of every month, with the inaugural event held last November.
Hackerspaces participating in past events have included Chicago's PS1, Luxembourg's Syn2cat, Ireland's TOG, France's Tetalab, Saint Louis's Arch Reactor and a bunch more besides. Most spaces share ustream feeds during the events.
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- Today April Fools' Day preview: A printer that shreds
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Tired of an old, clunky printer destroying more paper than it prints? Instructables user laxap helps along a printer aspiring to be a shredder by gutting it and installing an actual shredder. Almost as fun as smashing the thing to bits, like in Office Space.
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- Today Back in stock: Gakken SX-150
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The Gakken SX-150 is one of the most popular kits in the Maker Shed, and we just got a fresh new supply! We have posted a lot of projects that involve hacking and modifying of the SX-150. We've see Arduino controlled versions, fooling around with plasma, incredible analog cassette hacks, button mods, and more! Collin did a really nice video review too! Did you hack and mod your SX-150? Are you planning on it? Let us know in the comments. Thanks!
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- Today The Big Rethink: All posts in one place!
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Over the past couple of days, there's been a flurry of information coming from our live-blogging team at The Big Rethink, The Economist's Redesigning Business Summit. To make it easier for you to navigate, we've rounded up all their reports in one handy place.
In chronological order:
The Big Rethink: Introducing the Core77 team
Ready for a big rethink?
The Big Rethink: Designing around what consumers want (ethical underwear)
The Big Rethink: The challenge to business
The B... (more)
- Today Core-toons Poster "The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors" now available!
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Our most popular Core-toon illustration, The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish of Graphic Design Favors is now available as a poster! A limited-edition of 150 prints have been silk screened by the Post Family printers in Chicago on French Smart White paper, and Individually numbered and initialed by the artist lunchbreath. The print is 18" x 24" (45.7cm x 61cm) and ships in a super tough reusable metal-capped tube.
Available now for just $20 (plus shipping), it's the perfect "not... (more)
- Today IxD10: All talks on video!
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IxDA has done a phenomenal job documenting all of last month's presentations from the Interaction Design 2010 conference in Savannah, GA. There are so many gems here, but we've picked out a few favorites, The first is Ben Fullerton's talk on Designing for Solitude. Alone time— or the "ability to switch off and contemplate"—is becoming harder and harder to find as our media is increasingly socialized; Ben discusses why this is not a good thing. Solitude is important and we now fin... (more)
- Today Shaped by Our Shipping, Part 3: The Cargoshell is flat vs. fat
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During my mother's childhood in her country of origin, a neighbor might swing by your house and deliver a plate full of chow, delicacies or baked goods. Local custom was that when you returned the plate to them a few days later, you never gave it back empty, but loaded it with the fruits of your own kitchen labors.
When I was a waiter my boss used to dress me down if he caught me traveling empty-handed between the ground floor and the storeroom in the basement. He had grown up in a four-s... (more)
- Today Summer design workshops: Boisbuchet 2010
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The Boisbuchet summer 2010 workshop schedule has just been released. From everything we've heard, the experience comes highly recommended—after all, what could be better than spending six to ten days on a country estate in the Southwest of France with Maarten Baas, the Campana Brothers, Tomoko Azumi or Dan Formosa?
Above, a shot of the castle and a scene from the a 2009 workshop on toys and games: participants navigated a 2d maze by looking into a mirror mounted inside their helmet... (more)
- Today Shaped by Our Shipping, Part 2: Thinking inside the box
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Anyone who's ever moved house knows you've got to put everything in boxes, which is why U-Haul sells them.
Shipping companies figured this out as early as the 1700s; prior to that you had the "break bulk" cargo system, which meant scores of dockworkers going up and down gangplanks with bolts of fabric and sacks and whatnot across their shoulders. But the boxes and crates loaded onto ships (and later trains) differed in size, shape and composition depending on where they came from. Throug... (more)
- Today The Big Rethink: four visions of the world tomorrow, and how to shape your company around them
- The Economist's Robin Bew, who opened the conference yesterday by reminding us of exactly how deep the s*** is we're in, posed what are perceived to be the four trends (or challenges for business) that will shape tomorrow's world.
Sir George Cox (former Design Council Chairman), in his calming, measured, reassuring way, offered some reasons why we shouldn't all start panicking and freak out. This was a nice reflective antidote to the information overload of the last two days, and perhaps the... (more)
- Today Competition: Food Design 6
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One Off has just released the call for entries for their 2010 edition of Food Design, now six years in the running. Open to all, the aim of the competition is to foster design culture through food culture, and vice versa. There are three categories to submit to: Design with Food, Design for Food, and Tasting Kit.
The list of judges is long and distinguished, including designers Marti Guixe, Joe Colombo, Heston Blumenthal and Grant Achatz.
Here's the brief:
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- Book a spot in the Sahara to plant your tree: Tree-Nation
- If you hang out a lot of the web, you probably have heard about the $1 million page. Its principle is dead simple: the page features 1 million pixels and allows you to book your tiny pixel-size ad for $1. Tree-Nation technique is comparable yet with a more citizen spirit. Instead of pixels, you support trees; instead of investing into an individual future fortune, you contribute to re-green desert areas in the Sahara.
“Our objective is two-fold: Primarily environmental, but also closely... (more)
- No walls, reused materials, but a real fitness club
- Green warriors have their green fitness club. Where? In Spain, in Valdespino de Somoza, in the countryside of Leon. It’s there where some Spanish villagers have built a low-tech green gym area called Lumen. Don’t expect to meet steamy trainers, listen to trendy music, or carry heart beat tracker. There, you get in shape by playing with exercise machines made from a worn car battery, tree branches, boots, rocks or concrete.
There, you essentially learn everything by yourself, by re... (more)
- French mailmen to ride electric vehicle
- French mailmen have a new vehicle. La Poste, the French postal service, has ordered 500 electric delivery microcars for this year and 10,000 within the next five years. Great move that we applaud, although the new squad will be a tiny portion of the gigantic fleet of fossil-fuel vehicle. By far to private sector companies, La Poste has around 60.000 vehicles, 25 airplanes and 3 high-speed trains.
Nevertheless, the electric vehicle will bring substantial energy saving. According to La Poste CE... (more)
- Bicodi, a simple and aesthetic stool for your bar
- We could be filed this under “camper knowledge for the living room.” After all, campers sit on any tree branch and when they could find one, they consider a tree trunk as a temporary stool. We were quite like this when we first way the Bicodi stool from the Italian design agency 2CWorkshop. Their bar stool has something from the rather simple camper trick but with a more aesthetic approach.
The Bicodi concept consists of linking a base and a seating with a bar. Many variations can... (more)
- En-Fer: Solid furnitures made from solid gears
- For an explicit name, En-Fer is a good one. The atelier, founded by Swiss designer Stefan Lehner and Christina Lanzos, is only interested in thrown-away steel products like old supermarket carts, worn industrial chains, springs, rings or used tin cans. What for, will you ask. To make new furniture, to make new things from materials that have an history.
Take this spring chair for example. The frame is a classic industrial chair with membrane springs. “Membrane springs are used in conden... (more)
- Once worn, cardboard boxes turn blankets
- This may not the most colorful blanket, but the material used to manufacture it is abundant: worn cardboards. While they are rigid and uncomfortable, those Cardboard Coverings blankets are soft and supple. Plus they’re light enough to be folded and carried easily in a bag.
While the still visible graphics of the original box remind us that they were once disposable containers of consumables, we wish they could be customizable or come with different patterns. This way, they would provide... (more)
- Your carpet, this wool balls piece of art
- Tennis balls aren’t only for tennis games. They can be make a seat. Wool balls aren’t only for knitting purposes. Consider them as ready-made pieces of carpet.
That’s right, Belgium designer Diane Steverlynck brought this nice idea up. Her Modul_le is a flexible carpet made of felted wool balls. Each round unit is independent from the others. To stick them together, just pin them on the velcro layer. What is great in this big puzzle is that everyone could change the pattern ... (more)
- Pump bike tires up with the seatpost
- How to get a bike pump always at hand without attaching it to the bike? Dumb question, isn’t it? Just put one in your bag, will you answer. Okay, but how do you do if you want to carry a bag, if your bag is too small or that your pump is just too big? Ah.
British designer Philip Robinson proposes another way to solve the case: Hide it in the bike itself.
Its BioLogic ZorinPump is a combination of a seat-post and a floor-pump, hiding the pump mechanism inside the seat-post without addin... (more)
- Today Madeleine Mini Bloomers
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Sarai at Collette Patterns shares this handsome pattern for bloomers. I would love to make a pair for myself, but right now my sewing skills max out at simple tab curtains. She also posted some images of bloomers that her readers have made. Pretty and feminine. I wonder if they're comfortable.
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- Today Color Eggs With Kool-Aid
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These brightly colored eggs were dyed using packets of Kool-Aid instead of traditional egg dyes. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes shares her process for experimenting with Kool-Aid and even includes some of pitfalls she encountered.
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- Today How-To: Animal Masks
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Here's a fun project to tackle with the kids this weekend. I love that the project itself can create an opportunity for fun creative time together, and then play time with the masks offers even more fun. Enjoy!
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- Today CRAFT Pattern: Crocheted Reversible Swiffer Sock
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By Linda Permann
I've always hated buying refills for my Swiffer sweeper -- even though I use both sides of the cloth, it just seemed silly to throw them away. My sweeper had been languishing in my closet because I had no refills when I realized I could crochet my own reusable cover from some yarn I already had in my stash. I came up with this reversible version that's loopy on one side (to grab the dust) and flat on the other (for damp mopping). This "sock" is fun and quick to crochet, eas... (more)
- Today Plush Toys for Grownups
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These white flowers are so pretty. I love that their creator, lapomme on etsy, calls them, "plush toys for grownups!"All her work is in the same lovely vein of light and sophisticated charm. Check out the featured seller interview for lovely insight on "Apple's" process.
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- Today In the Kitchen with Jarod: Make a Mother of Vinegar
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Last week, Jarod gave us some ideas of what to do with stale bread. This week he'll be explaining how to turn old or undrinkable wine into a mother of vinegar, and then how to make vinegar from the mother.
About a month ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner party given by Jarod. My boyfriend and I brought a bottle of wine to share, but were disappointed when it was found to be "corked" -- a term given to unopened wine that has that vinegary, wet-dog-musty-cave taste associated wit... (more)
- Today How-To: Voluptuous Pillow Chairs
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Instructables user seamster writes:
The initial goal of this project was to make a couple of bean bag-style pillow chairs stuffed with pieces of recycled foam.
But when I began working on a cover for the first pillow chair, I realized it looked a heck of a lot like an enormous brassiere. So I did what most maker-types would do when they get a wacky idea like this. They modify their original course, and pursue the wacky idea.
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- Today How-To: Embroidered Paper Magnetic Bookmark
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I love ...is five's take on the magnetic bookmark. She stitched on paper, added magnets and scraps of ribbon to create these fun bookmarks.
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- Today Review: What We Learned
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words Charles Holland
TWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, or so the saying goes. Clearly it's not one that Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown subscribe to. Their 1972 book Learning From Las Vegas is one of the most famous tributes to the city's charms.
Learning From Las Vegas grew out of a studio that partners and married couple Venturi and Scott Brown taught at Yale University in 1968. Its celebration of Vegas combined with its attack on the architectural establishment of the... (more)
- Our New Apartment by Vandasye
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words Johanna Agerman
Our New Apartment is a collection of furniture produced using laser-sintered plastic and off-the-shelf wood by Vienna-based design practice Vandasye.
Our New Apartment is a collection of furniture produced using laser-sintered plastic and off-the-shelf wood. Created by Vienna-based design practice Vandasye, the series is inspired by the nomadic quality of urban dwelling and is manufactured in collaboration with Metropolitan Works, the manufacturing unit of London ... (more)
- Issue 082 is out now
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icon 082 / April 2010
The April issue of icon gets sensory with Mathieu Lehanneur, one of a new wave of designers treating science the way that the previous generation treated manufacturing. We visit Lehanneur's studio/laboratory, where he tinkers with medicine, raises fish inside coffee tables and conducts atmospheric experiments. Similarly experimental is Herzog & de Meuron's VitraHaus in Germany, the world's most ambitious furniture showroom, a surreal stack of house-like slabs.
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- Gallery: The Office Park
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words William Wiles
The Office Park is a series of photographs by Nicholas Cobb depicting a model of a large suburban business centre. Cobb's project takes the squeaky-clean business aesthetic of developments such as Richard Rogers' 2002 Chiswick Park in west London and gives it a dark, dystopian twist. Office workers enjoy corporate casual Friday entertainments among the humane modernist buildings and soft landscaping, but unpleasantness seems to be afoot. Hardcore pornography is being s... (more)
- Log cabin by Piet Hein Eek
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words Nicola Churchward
Masquerading as a stack of firewood, rustic yet modern, movable and built from sustainable material - this log cabin has it all.
Created by Dutch designer and architect Piet Hein Eek, the structure - built on wheels to bypass building regulations -- is a rehearsal space for a musician.
The tree-trunk exterior encases a steel frame salvaged from a builders' yard. The facade is made up of small cross-sections of tree trunk, arranged and positioned by ha... (more)
- Hard & Soft: Mac-mini-Klon für PC-Anwender
- Es lässt sich nur schwer leugnen, dass Apples Mac-mini bei der Entwicklung des neuen Dell Inspiron Zino HD Pate gestanden hat. Wie sein Vorbild aus Cupertino richtet sich der kleine Quader (198 x 198 x 89 Millimeter) hauptsächlich an Privatanwender, die sich ein schickes Multimediagerät fürs Wohnzimmer oder einen platzsparenden Desktopcomputer zum Surfen und für einfache Office-Anwendungen [...]... (more)
- Neue Bücher:
- DreidimensionalMan kommt seit einiger Zeit nicht um sie herum: räumliche Grafiken und grafische Räume. „Handmade 3D" setzt die Reihe bereits erschienener Bücher zum Thema fort. Es stellt 55 Designstudios vor, die mittlerweile nicht mehr nur Kennern der Szene ein Begriff sind. Nach erläuternden, weiterführenden oder auch neuen Gedanken oder Ansätzen sucht der Leser zwar vergeblich. Dafür hält er aber [...]... (more)
- News: Richard Fischer ist gestorben
- Richard Fischer, langjähriger Professor für Produktgestaltung an der HfG Offenbach, ist am 28. Februar im Alter von 74 Jahren verstorben. Ein Nachruf.... (more)
- Interiors: Schwungvoll baden
- Reiner Moll hat für das Premium-Segment von Villeroy & Boch die Kollektion La Belle entworfen. Inspiration bot die deutsche Romantik, dies zeigt sich in der floralen Formensprache. Highlight der Serie: eine freistehende Badewanne mit schwungvollen, sich nach unten verjüngenden Rundungen. Die Innenseite überzeugt durch die ergonomische Rückenkontur. Die Wanne ist gefertigt aus dem eigens von [...]... (more)
- News: Corporate Identity Gipfel 2010
- In Konstanz findet am 26. März der erste Corporate Identity Gipfel statt. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, einen umfassenden Einblick in Branchentrends zu bieten.... (more)
- Hard & Soft: Neue Version von Cinema 4D
- Maxon Computer hat eine neue Version seiner Animations- und Rendering-Software Cinema 4D veröffentlicht. Die wichtigsten Neuerungen: Ein beschleunigter und optimierter Render-Engine, der Bilder nicht nur schneller berechnet, sondern dafür auch weniger Speicherplatz benötigt als zuvor; ein komplett überarbeiteter Bildmanager mit etlichen Werkzeugen zur Ergebniskontrolle und Bildbearbeitung; [...]... (more)
- Neue Bücher:
- ArchivfundeDie Dokumentation des 23. Forum Typografie sollte nicht nur ein Rückblick sein, sondern auch Neues bieten. Einem Hinweis folgend, machten sich ein Dozent und zwei Studenten der HfK Bremen auf den Weg ins Archiv der HfG Ulm -- und entdeckten wahre Schätze. Die aus einem Buch und zwei DVDs bestehende Publikation erzählt daher nicht nur von einer spannenden Konferenz, sondern präsentiert drei [...]... (more)
- News: Creative Paper Conference 2010
- Am 14. und 15. Oktober findet in München die dritte Creative Paper Conference statt. Bis zum 18. Juni gilt ein Frühbuchertarif.... (more)
- Today SXSW Day 1: Doug Rushkoff Vs. First Day Tactics
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It happens every year. The bad weather thaws or rains itself out just in time for Austin and Texas to become known as The Places With the Most Amazing Temperatures On Earth. Today it was all big blue sky and 75 degrees and blinding 8 a.m. sunshine, giving SXSWesters another reason to break out the shades (the first being that for culture-savvy, social-Web tech geeks, SXSW Interactive [#SXSWi] is the coolest place to be in the world).
And yet, the Austin convention center was not th... (more)
- Today Social Entrepreneurship at SXSW
- I suppose one can officially claim a “movement has begun” when the movement has a party at South By Southwest, and so we can now call Social Entrepreneurship officially “started”. The Good Capitalist Party will be Monday, March 15th, 2010, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm, and 1500 of your closest friends have already RSVPed. The party is free, run by @Montero with the generous support of sponsors like Social Edge, Kiva, and my very own Austin Center for Design – an... (more)
- Yesterday Remarketables 3.11
- Yesterday On Social Business, at the Dachis Group Social Business Summit
- It’s both amazing and hilarious to consider that being human, or treating people well, or interacting with one another, is now in-vogue in big business. We did a turn with quality (“we need to make things well!”) in the 80s, optimization (“we need to track the supply chain and distribution chain!”) in the early 90s, the internet (“bricks and mortar is dead!”) in 2000, and now it’s All About Social. But when you unwrap “social”, you star... (more)
- Yesterday China Awaits Doctor Appointment System
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From last October, all the tier-3 hospitals in China, the highest ranked and best equipped public hospitals, were required by the Ministry of Health to provide clinic appointment services. The national initiative of building the clinic appointment system aims to reach these objectives: 1) arrange doctors' agenda better, 2) reduce patients' wait time, and 3) provide better medical consultation. In shorter words, in face of pressing healthcare issues, the government kicks off a service initiativ... (more)
- 3 days Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be
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Photo (cc) by Flickr user Leo Reynolds.
An open letter to the next generation of designers, part 1.
Everyone has moments in their career when they look back and think, “If I had only known then what I know now....” After 15-plus years as a designer and design researcher at places like IBM, Trilogy, M3 Design, and now frog design, I know I certainly have. Which is why, now that I’m a veteran, I'd like to give share some advice with young designers just starting out. ... (more)
- 3 days Google Launches Bike-Friendly Maps
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Google has launched a long-requested feature: an overlay of suggested routes for cyclists.
NY Times reports:
Much like the driving and walking directions on Google Maps, the service selects a route and calculates estimated cycling times after a user provides start and end points. The routing algorithm attempts to select optimal directions that avoid freeways and busy roads and intersections, and take into account bike paths, bike lanes and bike-friendly streets. They will seek to route aroun... (more)
- The Remembering Self Reflects on Happiness and Morality at TED
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TED conferences, you might think, are happy affairs. You get up early, meet the most fascinating people, listen to jaw-dropping talks (each followed by a standing ovation), have deep conversations, and party until dawn – and all of that for four days in a row, safely remote from your usual daily routine. The reality, however, is more complicated. The event is a physical and mental stress test, an emotional rollercoaster ride that challenges you with constant over-stimulation, extreme cro... (more)
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