Personal Kyoto: Achieve Your Own Personal Kyoto Protocol!
“Track your residential or commercial electric usage automatically and achieve your own Personal Kyoto.” Particularly interesting bit: “If you are a software developer interested in bringing Personal Kyoto to your town, get in touch!”
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App After App, or A zoology of next year’s web applications
A presentation by Matt Webb of interconnected.org on the types of web apps we may be seeing in the near future.
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Whocalled.us?
Has anybody else gotten one of these calls? You pick up and an automated message in Spanish starts playing. I’ve gotten these on my land line and my mobile. Totally bizarre.
Need a smoke?
“Fake cigarettes were placed in high-traffic streets in Chile, rolled with a PSA paper telling smokers: “It seems not only do you need a cigarette, you also need help.”
Rock, Paper, Payoff: Child’s Play Wins Auction House an Art Sale
Japanese corporation had Christie’s and Sotheby’s play “rock paper scissors” to decide who would auction off the company art collection. While the setup was perfect, they didn’t actually gesture when playing. They wrote their choice on paper instead.
Transport for London - London Trams signs standard
Document detailing how to implement London wayfiending signage. Found via adventuresinurbanliving.net.
Business cards - a photoset on Flickr
Huge collection of business cards. An exhibition from the looks of it.
Overnight Prints
Excellent quality offset printed cards at an incredible price. 100 double sided cards with matte/glossy finish and cut corners for 15 bucks.
Hermann Czedik-Eysenberg Server Switcher
Firefox extension that sounds more like a major work of physics or mathematics, or a crippling disease than a web development tool. But hey.
Throw-n-Sow
“Throw-n-Sow is a flying disc toy similar to a Frisbee that uses the centripetal force generated in the act of throwing to distribute seeds into the environment.” OW! I got a seed in my EYE!
PingMag: Waste needn’t be wasted - designs by Heath Nash
Lights and screens made with recycled plastic in South Africa. Beautiful when lit.
Tactile dynamic textures
“… for instance, a coffee cup’s skin changes into the affordance of a thorn-like texture to prevent the user from handling its extremely hot contents. the heat-sensitive material causes the thorns to rise & visually ‘informs’ the user that coffee may
BBC NEWS - Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank
Banksy swaps out 500 copies of the Paris Hilton CD across the UK. I can’t imagine an equivalent response in the US from store owners: “I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic enga
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.