Electrical and lighting engineering firm IDeAs, has a new net zero energy, zero carbon headquarters. To explain the details of their old sixties bank branch turned to new energy efficient building, IDeAs has put together an interactive website.
Become a tagging kung-fu master and bring some method into your tagging madness, by following the 3 steps from 43 folders.
Twenty trash cans in Toronto’s Financial District to display beautiful photographs for the next four months.
Fast Company’s annual report on Masters of Design for 2007, includes interview with designers like Yves Behar, the creative mind behind $100 laptop, and more.
V.S. Naipaul’s 5 simple yet useful rules of writing for beginners
Utah based Berkeley Data Systems, creator of online backup site Mozy, has been acquired by EMC. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
That’s what the NASA chief feels. China has already completed two successful manned spaceflights, and looks to be on target to get to the moon before NASA deadline of 2020 for a return trip to the moon.
A collection of 9 interactive color games to help you learn how to classify colors.
US Berkeley has started posting full lectures on YouTube, and will make over 300 hours of videotaped courses available on YouTube.
Particletree tries to visualize Fitt’s Law, a 53 year old law used to model the act of pointing. This post points out that design of Human-Computer Interaction is a complex one, and solutions derived from a single law might not be the best way to go.
A world map showing social network usage by country, based on Alexa ranking.
Striking images from a toy factory in China; the faces helping fuel America’s pursuit of happiness! Now that Mattel and other toy manufacturers have recalled all the toys with potentially harmful lead paint from US, next question is if these toys will be re-sold in poorer countries?!
If you are into knowing how your site ranks compared to rest of the web, then Website Grader is another SEO tool to add to the list. Will it help your site become popular, probably not, but it does give you some good suggestions about your site which might help improve your sites visibility.
Brooklyn doctor, Dr. Jay Parkinson, has launched an online practice, where he is available 8am to 5pm online via IM or email. Cost $500/yr + an initial house visit, and two additional visits if needed. Being an amateur photographer, he started the practice primarily to focus on Brooklyn’s young, uninsured working creative professionals. He uses web based Life Record to keep track of medical records, and a MacBook!
Great idea and about time.
Yuvisense the codin kid, has come out with an extensive analysis of sites which hit Digg’s front page. The information if from over 61,000 stories which hit Digg’s front page, from over 14,338 sites. Lot of interesting patterns uncovered here. Also check out part 1 of the Digg analysis.
