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Archive: May, 2007
South Africans Living Abroad: Where in the World Are You?
And what are you doing? Homecoming Revolution is doing a survey – one that could lead you to winning 2 tickets back home!
Web 2.0 'distracts good design' says web usability guru Jakob Nielsen
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design.Describing Web 2.0 as the “latest fashion”, Mr Nielsen said many sites paying attention to it were neglecting some of the principles of good design and usability established over the last decade. More…
You’ve felt the buzz, so you might be wondering, what is Web 2.0?
Some designers have taken it upon themselves to redesign famous logos in Web 2.0 format!
And here’s a Web 2.0 how-to design style guide of sorts…
12 Simple Ways to Keep Dust and Dirt Out of Our Homes
Healthy Choices Healthy Lives Newsletter
The Dirty Dozen
Why should I reduce the dust and dirt in my house?
Pollutants can be tracked into our homes on our shoes and clothing. Invisible residues of pesticides, carcinogens, solvents, paints, mold, bacteria, lead and other toxins that are brought inside can get on our hands and food and be eaten or inhaled. Over a long period of time, these agents accumulate and can increase the chance that illness will develop.
What can I do to get rid of house dust and dirt? (more…)
The Dead Man's Street Orchestra
Across a country, hitchhiking along interstate on-ramps and riding freight trains, there’s a large extended continually migrating family…
Corey stands at the opening of a boxcar while he waits for the train to resume moving, Portland, Oregon.
Backpackers Paradise:
Luang Prabang, Laos
As amazing as it is seeing the famous sights around, say, Western Europe, there’s nothing quite like dumping your pack in a beachside bungalow, dining out on incredible local food, drinking a few beers and crashing out knowing you’ve spent the equivalent of a Sydney commuter’s daily toll fare on the whole experience. more…
Cubicle Crush
Crushes on a coworkers might be biological…
Since the mid-1980s, Cindy Hazan, an associate professor of human development at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has been looking into why we pair up the way we do. It turns out we long to be close to those close by.
Just as an infant forms a special attachment to his mother or caregiver, adult mates become attached to each other through a similar mechanism, Hazan and her colleagues believe. Attachment helps to secure an infant’s survival; the bond between adults, while not quite so vital, provides the security and reliability they need to thrive.
Whether it’s Mom or your wife-to-be, the presence of your beloved triggers the release of oxytocin, a hormone that induces a state of contentment and stimulates a desire for continued close physical contact. “Proximity is really the core of attachment. Familiar people have a calming, soothing effect on us,” says Hazan. Zookeeper’s logic applies here: Put two members of any species in the same cage, and they are bound to mate.
This scenario is often played out in the cage that is the workplace, where like-minded humans of both sexes are locked up for eight- to 10-hour days. “When you ask someone why he got together with someone else,” Hazan says, “he will never say, ‘Well, she was just hanging around,’ but propinquity is a big factor. When you have repeated contact with someone, your attraction to them increases. If we have evolved to reproduce, then we shouldn’t have to wander around the earth searching for an ideal partner.”… more
Indoor air purification using living plants
The fabulously innovative Green Light by Natalie Jeremijenko, Amelia Amon, Will Kavesh of the Experimental Design Lab is a chandelier, terrarium, and air filter all in one. The system brings clean air, light, AND greenery to your home- three things no one should live without.
The Green Light design kicks off first of our many sneak peaks from this year’s quickly-approaching HauteGreen 2007 exhibition. This smart carbon-neutral system improves the internal air quality of a given room using an integrated solar panel to power a super-efficient LED bulb to stimulate plants of high air filtrating varieties. The entire system is designed with products and parts that are both recycled AND recyclable. Plus, the bulb from the unit provides a lovely glow to any room, giving a new meaning to the words ‘Green Light.’
$99 carbon-neutral, low power mini PC rolls out this summer!
There’s a cheap computer on the way that undercuts them all, the $99 Zonbu, due this summer in a silent-running form factor that’s about the size of a paperback book. It has 4GB of flash memory on board, and automatically backs up a copy of your data online. Besides that $99 purchase price, you’ll also pay $12.95 a month (for 25GB,scales up to 100GB for more money) to store its data on the Zonbu servers, giving you the ability to compute anywhere with this tiny device, or access your data from other PCs. If you don’t commit to a service plan, the little PC costs $250… read more…
This is so nifty I’d love to have one! And what a perfect way to dip my toes into a Linux-based system…
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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