David Merrill demos Siftables

Another great video from TED. MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables – cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands.

The Future of Vending Machines?

Famous quotes

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronal Reagan

Karl Marx “Prophecy”

Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to Communism.

Karl marx,

1867

Update: According to the Times, this is a fake. I guess this means that we have to find another road to Communism.

History of the Interent

The Power of citizen Journalism & New Media

Facebook Vs MySpace

Usually charts are boring but this one says a very straight story. Facebook has been growing in tremendous rates. In December it measured 222 million unique worldwide vititors (This is actually 22% of all people that access the internet!). However, the growth does not directly equate to bigger revenues and with MySpace zoning on Music, diversifying its revenue streams via e-commerce it is very likely that it will eclipse its rival in terms of profits in 2009.

Architecture 10 Best of 2008

As selected by the New Yorker,

Here by order of appearance

• Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren: the headquarters of CCTV, Beijing

• Frank O. Gehry: Art Gallery of Ontario

• Norman Foster’s Beijing Airport

• Herzog and de Meuron’s Olympic Stadium

• Olafur Eliasson’s New York Waterfalls Project

• Skidmore partner Craig Hartman: the new Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland

• Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco

• SANAA Architecture: the New Museum in New York

• Gwathmey Siegel’s Paul Rudolph Hall

Erika-Mann GrundSchule- Berlin

This is about an elementary school in Berlin that has been recently revamped. The new environment is amazing and very different to people’s perception of a school. The renovation was based on childern’s needs and POV and  brought to life by Baupiloten -a team of architecture students that take up a a number of interesting projects.

The School Website -would help if you speak German 😉

Data Visualisation Top 5

Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data — which is oftentimes cryptic — to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers. Data is interesting. As we collect more and more data about ourselves and our surroundings, the data and the visualization will only get more interesting. On that note, I give you FlowingData’s picks for the top 5 data visualization projects of 2008. Visualizations were judged based on the use of data, aesthetics, overall effect on the visualization arena, and how well they told a story.

Britain From Above

I want you to want me – NY MOMA

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