Archive for September, 2008
the early universe: we win
Early Universe
check my material flow
So what is the optimum strategy for transporting goods over a particular route? Where could costs be saved by using inland waterways, and at what point would it be best to transship to a road or rail vehicle? What is the cheapest, fastest, or most environmentally compatible overall solution? All answers can be provided by [...]
virtual globes
Since NASA World Wind (2004) and Google Earth (2005) brought the concept of a Virtual Globe into the general public’s consciousness, our concept of how to view the planet we live on has permanently changed. Similar to the way the internet changed the way we store, access and sort information, Virtual Globes are reshaping our [...]
i <3 nowhere, ak
Matthew Yglesias » For The Bridge To Nowhere Before She Started Pretending to Have Been Against It
the birth of a wired feature on charlie kaufman
An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich’s SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08 issue.
Storyboard – Wired [...]
local is a type of production, not a distance from your house
It’s WorldofGood.com’s goal to remove these “frictions,” in Haji’s words—deterrents to the efficiency and transparency of global marketplaces like these.
eBay Launches Socially Responsible Online Marketplace
The dual values of localism and globalism need to get balanced in the current “GOOD” movement.
Local actually means a type of production, not a distance from where you are. It’s [...]
“game mechanics for ecological good”
Damn! This (Lil) Green Patch thing has nearly 5.5 million monthly active users. (Making it among the very most popular Facebook apps.) What’s more, all those virtual plants have raised nearly $55,000 for the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt An Acre program.
Created by David King and Ashish Dixit, (Lil) Green Patch cleverly leverages roleplaying game mechanics for [...]
the percentage of alaskans you could fit in 10 square miles of:
All 670,000 Alaskans would fit into roughly this much of Manhattan:
he said it
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thmueS0ngAs]
YouTube – Diddy Blog #16 – “John McCain Is Buggin The F%^k Out’”!.
I think Diddy’s sentiment at 3:29 really sums up the mood of America, “Alaska, motherfucker?!?”
Inventing Green by Alexis Madrigal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
