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Design porn: Japanese student hand-crafts wooden bicycle
All in wood, except the seat and the drive train. Beautiful, wooden bike designed and built as a graduation project by Yojiro Oshima, a Tokyo industrial design student in Tokyo. From: Musashino Art...
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Collaboration vs Compulsion
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” Eisenhower
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Gamify your street with real-life ‘Monopoly’
Canadian Dave Delisle can relocate your home in the ‘Monopoly’ universe. From: http://davesgeekyideas.com
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Big Evernote upgrade for Android – review and features
Evernote elephant I’m a big fan of Evernote and use it to collaborate with a whole bunch of people. We were delighted to see the upgrade yesterday had brought some new features – but still no wordcount...
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Eyewitness compares IRA lynching to Passion of Jesus
The cover of the Mail, 25 years ago Published in The Mail today, this astonishing and desperately sad open letter – if true – compares the lynching of two soldiers to the Passion of Jesus. Warning –...
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Easter apparition of Jesus declared fake
Police and paparazzi hound celebrity Jesus A striking stencilled mural of Jesus carrying his cross appeared at London Bridge in time for Good Friday. Graffiti phenomenon Banksy washed his hands of...
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Studio Africa
Cultural collaboration from Vice, Diesel and others with dancing puppets, denim fashion, transgender celebs and more. Love it. http://studioafrica.tumblr.com/
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Problems vs Solutions
If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.” Thomas Edison
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1999 Monopoly set, Birmingham UK
We had a family Easter over at my parents’ house. After lunch they got out a Birmingham-branded Monopoly set I’d bought them back in 1999, and which they’d never opened. A lot of things have changed...
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Reader wars: three million news junkies shift to Feedly in just two weeks
Google reader style view is nice and safe Google are about to ditch Reader, leaving millions of frantic RSS heads – me included – looking for another news client. Flipboard works pretty good on...
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If you thought unConventions were cool – what about unMonasteries?
unMonastery The unMonastery is a European pilot aiming to support young people growing up in a time of crisis. The first unMonastery is kicking off in Italy (where else?) providing a group of young...
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Vogue Italy remixes Byzantine art with Milan style
‘The Way of Bizantinum’ ;Marco D’Amico – photographer, Marco Grisolia – stylist I love Byzantine art. It’s one of those amazing creative traditions which manages to fuse theology and aesthetics, like...
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Increase the peace: mindfulness training for kids and families
‘Planting Seeds’ will combine animation and documentary footage Many people come to learn their first meditation techniques through the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. But most don’t...
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Revealed! Secrets of 1st Arab feminist supergirl
Mai El Shoush, creator of ‘Drawn’ Sudanese journalist Mai El Shoush was sent to cover a comics expo in Dubai. She got so fed up with the boob job barbies in the western comic books, she decided to...
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Search engine hack creates a car collage
Search for “ultimate business car” and get a collaged ad. Clever. Dutch graduates The SEA Team have hacked Google’s Search Engine Optimization to curate a complete ad for Volkswagen through image...
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Salem or Sodom? New survey maps USA’s most religious cities
Mt. Timpanogos LDS Temple,in the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Photo Ken Lund via Flickr (http://flic.kr/p/7aMyNs) According to Gallup, Utah’s Provo-Orem was the most devout of 189...
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Missionary position: the top ten pornos being watched in the Vatican
ScanEye P2P torrent monitoring via TorrentFreak Apparently the most popular films being downloaded in the Vatican right now include ‘a few niche interests’. TorrentFreak, a popular filesharing blog,...
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How relevant are FM radio stations today? Let’s start one and find out.
Pic by Pedro Moura Pinheiro (flickr) At Punch Records, where I sit as creative producer along with DJ Ray Paul, we’ve just announced a new public radio project, BASS FM. It lands in June with twenty...
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Level up in Latin – Gaming the Classics
Dr. Gellar-Goad reboots the Classics Students at Wakeforest, a private, coeducational university in North Carolina, are using a table-top role-playing game to learn Latin. Young learners takes on the...
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‘Star Wars’ style newsreader – feel the forRSS!
This blog in a ‘Star Wars’ style I’ve written before that the evil Google empire is on the verge of wiping out the old RSS republic. I’ve switched to Feedly as my newsreader, and it’s working well for...
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