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November 16 2009
Mockingbird: Build Web Site Mockups Fast
When you’re trying to pull together all of the elements for a website, having a tool that can help you to build a mockup or wireframe in a matter of minutes can make a world of difference. Mockingbird is such a tool: You can drag and drop user interface elements onto a page, rearranging and resizing as you go. You can even link together the various pages within your mockup so that anyone you...
November 13 2009
NASA confirms the presence of water on the moon
It's official, folks: Brita can start selling lunar water filters. NASA confirmed the presence of lunar agua today with a cheeky: "The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water." Oh, NASA!
One month ago NASA's LCROSS spacecraft crashed onto the lunar surface, sending up a plume of moon dust to be analyzed. It's that plume that has yielded the amazing discovery. "We...
Reporting with Mobile Phones: The Experience of Voices of Africa
This story was written by Anne-Ryan Heatwole of MobileActive.org.
Mobile phones are the tool of choice for a new group of young reporters in Africa. Voices of Africa Media Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit, trains young journalists in Africa to create news videos for the web using mobiles.
The foundation currently has programs in Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South A...
November 11 2009
Apple topples Nokia, has Nintendo shaking in its boots
With the continued success of the iPhone worldwide, Apple has surpassed Nokia to become the number one handset vendor in the world, according to a report by the researchers at Strategy Analytics.
What's more, Apple is seeing its handset profits increase, raking in $1.6 billion for the third quarter of this year. Nokia, in comparison, saw its profits fall to $1.1 billion for the quarter. It's no ...
Camera hidden in a tissue box is pretty unsettling
It's official: you can never be sure someone isn't watching you at all times. I mean, just take a look at this tissue box. It looks benign enough. But inside is a camera that takes color footage in the daytime and black and white footage at night, all at a resolution of 720x480 with a framerate of 30fps. It uses SD cards to store footage, and can be programmed to activate automatically at a...
November 09 2009
More evidence of smaller iPhone on Verizon?
The rumor mill's cranking up once again about that smaller iPhone, and this time the story goes that it will have a 2.8-inch screen instead of the current 3.5" display. Apple Insider reports the unconfirmed report from an industry analyst that Verizon Wireless will be rolling out this new iPhone in the third quarter of 2010.
The upcoming handset will allegedly use a dual-system chip from...
In Defense of a Good Night's Sleep | Psychology Today
November 07 2009
Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really) | Popular Science
via www.popsci.com
"With freak accident after freak accident piling up over at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery is beginning to seem less and less far fetched" (Thanks, Leah)
November 06 2009
This high-tech glowing ball lets you wage urban war
Urban Defender has gangs of players putting down the guns and knives and instead reaching for what looks like a glowing dodgeball. The objective here isn't to go after other people, though. You're aiming for buildings.
The game apparently isn't quite finished yet so the multilayer backend I'm about to describe isn't in place yet. Ideally, you should be able to take your ball around the city and ...
November 03 2009
Book Review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”
I think project management books should be on every web worker’s reading list because — like it or not — even if your job title isn’t “project manager,” you still have to manage your own portion of the projects you participate in. Even some informal grounding in project management can be helpful for those “rare” times you are pulled into help bring a failing project back to life.
November 02 2009
Francine Prose, MTA conductor
“I’m 52, and I’m the best dancer ever. I can dance hip-hop, salsa, ballroom-dancing—you name it, I do it.”
October 30 2009
Will Innovation Still be Made in America?
To read the op-ed, please click on http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/speeches/2009-wsj.html.
Sesame Street “I Am Somebody” Segment with Jesse Jackson
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
By Guest Contributor gwen, originally published at Sociological Images
In the early 1980s the Reagan Administration engaged in an active campaign to demonize welfare and welfare recipients. Those who received public assistance were depicted as lazy free-loaders who burdened good, hard-working taxpayers. Race and gender played major parts in this framing of public assistance: the image of the...
October 29 2009
White (Wo)Man’s Burden: Madonna, Malawi, & Celebrity Activism [Original Cut]
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
by Latoya Peterson, published at Jezebel.com
On Monday, Madonna broke ground on a new school project in Malawi; today, she takes to the Huffington Post to ask for donations. Her megawatt star power helped engage media attention – but are high profile celebrities actually hurting progress?
In the new issue of Arise, reporter Hannah Pool examines the idea that “all Africa ha[s] to offer the world w...
October 27 2009
Would You Drink Bottled Water If It Came in a Recyclable Paper Container?
Image via: One Drink at a TimeThere are many reasons that the hair on the back of your neck might stand up when someone says the words bottled water - all that wasted plastic, the people harmed in the making of said plastic, the communities 'losing' their water when it is bottled. But, sometimes you need portable water containers. (Okay, we admit that there are alternatives, but what if?) If...
October 26 2009
5 Reasons New Yorkers Are the Most Eco-Friendly People in the US - Without Even Trying
photo: Eric E Yang via flickr.
TreeHugger's been saying for a while that urban living is one of the greenest ways to live. Well, over at Yale Environment 360, David Owen (who's a staff writer for The New Yorker, by the way...) lays out some stats as to why New York City should probably get renamed the Big Green Apple:...Read the full story on TreeHuggerPower Socket SWITCH Would Cut 11% Off Electric Bills
Images via Yanko DesignWe all know about phantom load--the electricity that continues to run through your electronics and appliances when they're turned off but still plugged in. Also called vampire power, it accounts for as much as a whopping 11% of our electricity usage. And while there have been products designed to fight the phantom loads, we haven't yet seen a truly viable large scale...
The ideal startup career path
The startup world is extremely small. If you’re smart, work really hard, and act with integrity, people will notice. Contrary to popular wisdom, you will actually have more job stability than working at a big company.
via www.cdixon.org
I'm officially on the Chris Dixon bandwagon. Good blogger!
Bike Fashion Show in NYC: Chic Urban Cycling Style (Video)
Chic cycling, street style at 'Bike Style' fashion show in NYC. Credit: Emma Grady
Hudson Urban Bicycles (HUB) in the West Village, New York City, hosted Bike Style Saturday night, a fashion show premiering chic urban cycling looks. Friends of HUB donned tailored bicycle wear--blazers, cropped pants, and caps--from designers Lela Rose, Read the full story on TreeHuggerMaybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
