… Not because his car is particularly good looking, because it definitely got beat with the ugly stick a few times, but because he adapted an old (1992!) car to enable him to hypermile by changing the body style of the car– No engine mods necessary. This is what Amory Lovins has been campaigning for– [...]
For the past several days, I’ve been trying to declutter my parents house of old stuff that’s been sitting around forever. Admittedly, a lot of the stuff is mine that they didn’t know they were allowed to throw out because I was away at college, working in KC or Bangalore, or at school in Chicago. [...]
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Next: Innovation Tools & Trends Social Networking – BusinessWeek (tags: socialnetworks innovation) A Rural Health Clinic in a Box (tags: healthcare india rural) Radar: Radar Blog – Radar Tag: You’re It! real world games using web software for facilitation (tags: fun games internet Mobile) fring – Make free mobile calls, IM with Skype, MSN Messenger, [...]
When I showed my brother this, we both immediately (but separately) thought there were some pretty interesting learnings to be had from this kid’s gradual re-introduction into society. If only there were a way to do it without making it too Truman Show-ey or Big Brother-ish.
When I was growing up, I used to travel back to India on occasion to see the large percentage of my family that still resides there. I distinctly remember going to my uncles house and having to walk a short distance outdoors to get to the shower. (Yeah, I guess that’s kinda like an outhouse, [...]
Can I just say, that sometimes, I feel like I’m in Pee Wee’s playhouse when I’m reading some random blog entry, design observer, or the latest McK Quarterly and I see the word “innovation“. All the fun creatures and puppets in the playhouse start screaming and yelling around me and I become anxious and excited [...]
business technology trends – Eight business technology trends to watch – Information Technology – Applications – The McKinsey Quarterly (tags: trend McKinsey innovation technology business media) The BiasharaPhone: a hybrid mobile phone and POS terminal (tags: Africa design development phone)
The Visual Display of Vampire Information : TreeHugger (tags: visual display)
Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then – The New York Times (tags: multimedia nytimes interactive flash journalism) Open Flash Chart – Home (tags: flash chart library opensource graph)
A textbook example | Free exchange | Economist.com (tags: text learning books)
