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Fast Company Magazine Would You Live in a Suburban Office Park?
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Imagine coming home to your loft in an aging suburban office park. You pull into a parking lot bigger than a football field beside an uninflected wall of mirrored glass. You step inside a seven-story atrium where 600 people once worked and ride the elevators to a loft overlooking that unmistakable ...
Fast Company Magazine Boomtown: The Real Money Behind Virtual Goods
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Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real.
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Fast Company Magazine Dealers Pushing Pot on Social Networks Create Legal Haze
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Who knew Twitter, Facebook and MySpace were gateway drugs? It started off as something social, but now some California medical marijuana dispensaries are using the popular social networks to update their clientele, and anyone else who's interested, on what they have to offer.
Fast Company Magazine Hollywood's Creature Teacher
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Visual-effects guru Alex Alvarez builds the film industry's hottest new talents, one geek at a time.
Fast Company Magazine The World's Most Horrifying Candy
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You'll never guess what Stephen J. Shanabrook uses to mold his chocolate truffles. Nothing could be more benign and pleasant than chocolate truffles--but in the confections of Stephen J. Shanabrook, sweet treats turn into gruesome mementos of contemporary life.
Jen at 4:52pm July 8
Wow, is that horrifying. What an interesting juxtaposition. The suicide bomber reminded me of those preserved bog people from England.
Tini at 3:13am July 9
more chocolate horrors
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Fast Company Magazine LG Unveils the... iPhone 4G?
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Next year's iPhone 4G has just been revealed--it's a familiar shape, with a twelve megapixel camera and it records 720p video. Fabulous! But it's not Apple's phone. Confused? It must be an iPhone! Look at the shape! Look at the list of core features: All-touchscreen glass front: check. Graphical UI ...
Fast Company Magazine Milton Glaser’s Graphic Influence
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On June 26, Milton Glaser turned 80 but there's no retirement in sight for the world's most celebrated graphic designer. Best known for that ubiquitous I ♥ NY logo that is about as impossible for a New Yorker to avoid as the subway, Glaser continues to make indelible marks on design, pop culture, an...
Fast Company Magazine Is Michael Jackson's Funeral Dangerous For the Web?
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In case you're living in a lead-lined, radio wave-proof, soundproofed bunker, it's Michael Jackson's funeral today. But given that the event of his death nearly crashed the Web, will his funeral create even more problems online?
Alexis at 1:18pm July 7
watched on ABC, not Web... all the other TV networks were running with 7+ second delays, ABC was the only one that seemed to be more real-time.
Moje at 4:18pm July 7
mj is dead. stop beating him. there is a lot of good and great things to remember him by. focus on them. if you have nothing good to say, keep you peace and let mj rest in peace. please.
Fast Company Magazine When designing the Tulip chair for B&B Italia, Studio B founder, Jeffrey Bernett was given a tough charge—to create a chair that would be as stylish in the office place as it was comfortable for a home environment. Incorporating '60s mod design elements, he created a simple chair that did it's job so well as to become one of B&B Italia's most successful pieces.
Fast Company Magazine New Algorithm Can Guess Your SSN - Your Identity At Risk
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Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can reverse engineer an individual's Social Security number using, ironically, nothing more than data from publicly available data on government sites, and the data you share with the world on Facebook.
Fast Company Magazine Tiger Woods on Video Game Realism and Knowing Your Customers
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As I mentioned in last week's dispatch, when Tiger Woods came to New York City recently, I was able to pick his brain a bit about Twitter, Facebook and the changing landscape of sports marketing. Today, the topic is video games. After all, that's what brought him to Niketown, following the U.S. Open...
Fast Company Magazine at 8:31am July 7
The July/August issue started going out to subscribers this past week, if you still have not received yours, please call 800-542-6029, and they should be able to help. Thanks!
Joe at 10:11am July 8
Too many entries from Fast Company. Needs twice a week.
Fast Company Magazine Gavin Newsom Wants to Be Governor of California. Would You Hire Him?
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The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy? Gavin Newsom wants to be the governor of California. Eventually. "But not now!" he laughs ruefully. "Let me wait until next year. Who the he...
Fast Company Magazine Why Walgreens is Building Its Own Universal Health-care System
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Walgreens, the $59 billion drugstore giant, is building its own universal health-care system, with more than 700 retail and corporate clinics. Everyone knows Gary Gustin. When he walks through the halls of L-3 Communications' Camden, New Jersey, office, he gets smiles and hellos from everyone he mee...
Fast Company Magazine At the Most Creative People in Business event on June 10 in NYC, design consultant Laura Guido-Clark was enlisted to create the office of the future. With furniture and design elements that bridge the worlds of office and home design, she created a workspace as flexible as the worker of the future. Multi-tiered, multi-hued, and with a variety of textures this office marks a sharp break from the traditional white box.
Jonny at 5:47am July 7
There may well be a revolution going on in the live-work world, but this certainly isn't a part of it!
If you want to be able to 'work from home' effectively (& I do), the studio/office environment does need to be built around you...& separate in some way (as many ways as possible) from your living environment if you're to have any chance of switching off from it when you're not working! Otherwise you'll always be at work...always in that mindset & that's just not good/healthy for 'you'!
Also if you work standing up, the surface you work on needs to be height adjustable...I don't think I'd enjoy 'standing next to a bookcase', working on a small shelf for any length of time!... Read More
I too love FC, but this is a token gesture that merely attempts to sell badly designed furniture!
If you want to be able to 'work from home' effectively (& I do), the studio/office environment does need to be built around you...& separate in some way (as many ways as possible) from your living environment if you're to have any chance of switching off from it when you're not working! Otherwise you'll always be at work...always in that mindset & that's just not good/healthy for 'you'!
Also if you work standing up, the surface you work on needs to be height adjustable...I don't think I'd enjoy 'standing next to a bookcase', working on a small shelf for any length of time!... Read More
I too love FC, but this is a token gesture that merely attempts to sell badly designed furniture!
Christy at 3:10pm July 7
Agreed.. :)
Fast Company Magazine The Internet Makes Work for Idle Hands
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The radical decentralization of the means of cultural production and distribution it has brought about, that I mentioned in the slidecast in my last post, "Social Begins At Home," has changed the very nature of the audience--of what an audience is. Until very recently, the means of production were i...
Fast Company Magazine Robotic Game Controller Adjust Itself, Frags Carpal-Tunnel
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The device automatically adjusts itself, so that you never linger in one position long enough to develop repetitive stress.
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Nicole Patrice at 10:04am July 6
Better living through technology!
Fast Company Magazine Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils 14 Home Designs for New Orleans
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Brad Pitt is more than just a voracious consumer of design--he is, perhaps, one of design's greatest philanthropists. The proof is his two-year long effort to build houses--designed by some of the world's best architects--to New Orleans's Katrina-decimated Ninth Ward.
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July Fourth! The birth of our country, marking the fateful day, some 233 years ago, when we slipped the shackles forced upon us by the crafty, snaggle-toothed British. And also, the beginning of outdoor grill season. ...
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Jack Tretton How do you measure the effectiveness of a game, beyond the monetary value alone?
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Beginning this fall, every new airliner will feature passenger seats that are the strongest ever, and some will even come equipped with airbags. It's great for safety, but here's an interesting question: Airline seats are clunky--why aren't they more like the Aeron chair?
Chris at 12:42pm July 2
I'm glad they aren't like Aeron chairs. That would be horribly uncomfortable to be strapped into for a multi-hour flight, though I wouldn't mind more breathable seating surfaces.
Eric at 4:42am July 3
The article author correctly identifies cost as the issue. Unprofitable carriers are unlikely to upgrade seating unless it will add to bottom line, which it won't in economy class. Higher fuel prices may encourage lighter - and - hopefully more ergonomic, seating.
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Would you take a Prius over a Porsche? Even if money was no object, 6 of 10 ppl say they would take the green car.
Chris at 9:22am July 2
Tesla FTW?
Edgar at 8:13pm July 2
If money were no object I'd take the Porsche and buy some carbon credit's to offset my ride!
Eric at 4:17am July 3
In the not too distant future this should be moot. Hybrids will improve driving dynamics and style - think Fisker http://karma.fiskerautomot
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Dell recently announced it'll make a GPS add-on for its Mini 10 netbook. While your mileage may vary on the value of this idea, I'm making my mark here: This is one of the dumbest gadget ideas ever.
David at 10:00am July 2
Hmmm - I have navigation built into the car and it's fantastic. I'm completely hooked on it and now totally dependent. But, I have GPS also in my mobile phone and have never used it for "real". I guess the GPS circuits are now so cheap that Dell can throw this in for next to nothing. It's not like Dell to add expensive functions.
Tanya at 6:54am July 3
I have GPS in my car and my mobile, but I never use the car, because my mobile has realtime traffic alerts and reroutes because it is connected to the internet... I have to sync my car GPS via blue tooth to the internet connection provided by my cell anywho... so may as well let it be the application host as well as the transport.
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Ethics is stereotypically heavy on Spock and light on Sally Struthers. But what if unethical behavior is actually spurred, rather than prevented, by reason?
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Today, MTV is launching a brand-new look, across all 64 of its worldwide channels--a rebranding that the company's creative director calls "pop x 1000%."
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Walgreens, the $59 billion drugstore giant, is building its own universal health-care system, with more than 700 retail and corporate clinics.
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The Pentagon's mad-science research lab has been funding efforts to create automatic speech translators, of the type that so ably served Dr. Spock.
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Egos at Amazon must be riding high this month. The retailer sold out of its flagship product, the Kindle DX, not once but twice. Then, to cap it all off, this morning investment research and banking firm Cowen and Company called Amazon a "next generation Wal-Mart."
Patricia at 3:17pm June 30
Better than Wal-Mart. I shop there often for all sorts of things. I don't go to Wal-Mart unless forced to.
Karen at 3:18pm June 30
Yes, both times i ordered Kindle DX it was on back order! So i ordered the Kindle 2 and it is great!
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A new Nielsen study says that adults use the Internet more than teenagers do. Is that actually a surprise?
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If Tiger Woods were hooked on Twitter like Shaq, he would have gotten thumb blisters posting updates during his whirlwind New York City visit last Thursday:
Fast Company Magazine Tim Burton, Eat Your Heart Out