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How do you like the idea of living inside a shipping container? Kinda weird? But that’s not the case with the Adam Kalkin’s prehab homes made from shipping containers. The architect makes container homes that are good looking, transportable and recyclable. He isn’t the only [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 22, 2009
A shipping container
March 8, 2009
Big Picture TV › Video › Sustainable Cities
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March 3, 2009
Tinkering with monks: cardboard automata on Vimeo
Cardboard automata is tinkering activity developed by the PIE institute at the Exploratorium. In it, participants are asked to build a mechanism of their choosing, using simple materials, to animate a kinetic vignette. It is an exploration of mechanical movement and artistic expression at the same time.
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March 2, 2009
Sync Facebook photos with Apple’s Address Book
I dont have a facebook account anymore and I also dont have Plaxo. Now Plaxo, when I had the account, did this syncing and even today I have profile photos of all the plaxo contacts in my iphone.
So when someone from my old plaxo list cals I see their photo. Cool.
But now you can do [...]
March 1, 2009
SPIN
Word Spy – SPIN
adj. Relating to the dense cultivation of vegetables and other crops on small plots, particularly in urban settings. [From the phrase Small Plot INtensive.]
Example Citations:Some cities, most notably Vancouver, have websites that match urban landowners who don’t care to garden with those who have no space but want to immerse their hands [...]
March 1, 2009
A Diabetes Mentor in Your Cell Phone
» A Diabetes Mentor in Your Cell Phone – DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog
For most people, the cell phone is one of the only gadgets everyone understands and uses every day. There are several companies that have utilized the wide world of iPhone applications, but new-kid-on-the-diabetes-block WellDoc, a Baltimore-based company, has created a new [...]
March 1, 2009
Change your meter color depending on your outfit or your mood
» “Designer” Mini Glucose Meter Coming in March – DiabetesMine: the all things diabetes blog
Recently I wrote about an amazingly compact new glucose meter called the Glucocard, from Japanese manufacturer Arkray. Now it seems that the company is going designer ultra-mini with a tiny new meter that will be the first-ever to feature interchangeable [...]
March 1, 2009
Interest repayments are tax deductible on owner-occupied loans in the US
Home Loans: Tax deductible home loans – RateCity.com.au
Housing Affordability; it’s the catch-cry of the year. It seems we can’t go a day without hearing the words, especially when used in conjunction with the other latest slogan; “mortgage stress”. Even politicians have entered the discussion with the idea of making the interest repayments on first home-buyer’s [...]
March 1, 2009
Where can we find the billions to relieve students of their debt?
President Obama–Forgive Student Debt. – BusinessWeek
I just came from a discussion session of Parsons’ students working on their research projects for my lecture series, Design at the Edge. They are amazingly smart students. They’ve broken up into groups of five or six. Each group is about to do ethnographic research on their own Gen Y [...]
March 1, 2009
Smile Train Trip To Haiti
Smile Train – the world’s largest cleft charity visits Haiti to expand its free cleft surgery programs and help the more than 20,000 children in Haiti who are suffering with unrepaired clefts.
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The Smile Train: Brian Mullaney [...]
March 1, 2009
Better Philanthrophy – ideas wanted
So this past week I raged about the ‘putting pipes in the ground’ approach of a corporate-philathrophy project. I realise what I need is for these City Councils in Australia not to keep putting money into ineffective ‘feel-good’ and ‘look good in report’ projects – but to smarten their act and participate in genuine and [...]
