BART is cool like that
BART offers a plethora of mobile options and now is also launching city-inspired iTunes playlists as well. I like this.
July 02, 2008
June 19, 2008
har
Aynne is your new bicycle
June 18, 2008
whoo
E is awesome
June 04, 2008
most excellent
Giant solar-powered LED in China
possibility
Eco-friendly design everywhere...
A new age of enlightenment?
That would be nice.
May 30, 2008
Information Graphics
A good site for information graphics ideas
May 27, 2008
Fear not technology
Two wonderful stories on technology:
Radiohead's distribution revolution enables them to be free of the big music industry machine.
and
With one word a man Twitters his way out of an Egyptian Jail.
Don't fear it - use it for good.
April 08, 2008
Beat it
Two Halloweens ago some friends got together for Beat It Vs Love is a Battlefield dance
That would be me and some friends and friends of friends...
people seemed to like it
March 31, 2008
iPhone Instrument
February 28, 2008
good for business, good for the community
Google has given free life-long voice mail to the homeless of San Francisco.
February 21, 2008
nothing but warm fuzzies in these perfect pixels
this was just funny..
Who Needs Designers
February 13, 2008
hearts this week
February 12, 2008
Good Love is on the Way
February 09, 2008
brad and sketch tues
February 07, 2008
seduced by light
Live performance and Light installations..
February 05, 2008
tuesday photo
January 13, 2008
innovation in business
I will give kudos when they are due. Glaxo-Smith Klein hatched a radical idea on marketing its new anti-rotavirus vaccine. (Rotavirus is responsible for the deaths of thousands of newborns and infants due to diarrhea and dehydration). Instead of launching the drug to the more prosperous markets of North America and Europe - they focused their efforts on markets where the virus was taking it's largest toll. Developing countries and countries with limited financial resources.
The vaccine was launched and paid for with grants from The Gates Foundation and pre-orders from the countries where the drug was to be launched. The price was kept down so the margin is low - but since the volume would be high it would cover the cost.
90% of newborns in countries such as Mexico are vaccinated now.
GSK gets a good story to tell and more importantly children are saved.
It is a shame that stories like this are hard to come by. I think that when businesses start thinking about how they can improve their models to consider more than just short-term economic gains we can see real change.
December 17, 2007
inforgraphic heaven
Good Magazine has a collection of spiffy information graphics.
October 28, 2007
love this
October 18, 2007
guide to riding muni
From the Neighbors Project:
September 13, 2007
Oryx and Crake
More than anyone needs to know about one of my very favorite books...
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood who is my very favorite contemporary author.
The official Oryx and Crake website.
and an excellent Guardian UK audio interview with Ms. Atwood on dystopia, good and evil and her thoughts on writing. This is an mp3.
September 12, 2007
nice news
A surfer saved a dog from drowning in Lake Michigan. The mixed breed pooch was swept off a pier by a wave as his disabled owner watched helplessly. Fortunately a quick thinking surfer swooped the dog up on to his board and rode the pooch safely to shore.
August 17, 2007
Smart cars coming to SF
Finally!... Smart cars will be arriving early 2008 to the US. I am very excited about this.. There is already huge demand and deposits are already being taken.
I imagine I won't be able to get for at least a year but this will be my next car unless someone comes out with a very cute convertible hybrid or electric car first.
Bay Area drivers get first look at tiny Smart and they like what they see