SO VERY NOW

Las Vegas: Startup City - Businessweek

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:49 -0500

Fascinating. Can’t wait to see how this turns out!

Tony Hsieh, the soft-spoken chief executive officer of shoe and apparel site Zappos.com (a division of Amazon.com) (AMZN) wants to turn the often overlooked and economically depressed downtown area into a dense urban neighborhood teeming with artists, entrepreneurs, and Internet workers. It’s one of the most unconventional redevelopment efforts in any American city, ever. Instead of soliciting public funds, Hsieh is spending $350 million of his own money to buy empty lots, seed new businesses, and subsidize schools. Next year he’ll move his company’s 1,400 local employees from suburban offices into the 11-story former City Hall (complete with jail cells on the second floor that may become meeting rooms). “What started out as a campus relocation project has evolved into a project to revitalize downtown Vegas,” Hsieh says.

Photo

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:26:27 -0500

Callin' Oates

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:13 -0500

Callin' Oates:

Call this hotline now: 719-266-2837

Srsly. This is an emergency.

Look at what Penn Station used to be! Stunning!

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:23:35 -0500

Look at what Penn Station used to be! Stunning!

fastcompany: Brilliant on so many...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:22:48 -0500

fastcompany:

Brilliant on so many levels.

barackobama:

think-progress:

Demonstrating: The EXTREME marshmallow cannon!

(Pro tip: Want to be invited to the White House? Be a 14 year old who clearly designed the best invention ever).

Photo of the day.

trextrying: T-Rex Trying To Chart Exponential Growth… (It’s all...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:18:37 -0500

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying To Chart Exponential Growth… (It’s all on the up-and-up?)

#TRexTrying

New favorite web comic! T-Rex has little arms. It never stops being funny!

New Fashion Week Taxis Let You Buy While You Ride

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:12:46 -0500

New Fashion Week Taxis Let You Buy While You Ride:

Ok, so it’s not the Cash Cab, but it’s still a free ride. I’m in!

The Noun Project

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:41:00 -0500

The Noun Project:

I cannot believe how amusing and useful this is! A growing catalog of all the world’s nouns represented in simple, visual icons.

There is a clear icon for everything from “food bank” to “bully” to “sloth” (sloth!!)

slaughterhouse90210: “Some very considerable part of the...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:22:06 -0500

slaughterhouse90210:

“Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.”
—William Gibson, Zero History

GM’s Smart Windows Let You Interact With The World From Your Car @PSFK

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:08:16 -0500

GM’s Smart Windows Let You Interact With The World From Your Car @PSFK:

Whoa. Interactive, touch screen glass for backseat windows.

Yet more evidence we are creating a new generation who will never understand what it’s like to have to entertain themselves…

Profile: Effie Trinket

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:08:15 -0500

thecapitolcouture:

EFFIE TRINKET

HER TRIBUTES AREN’T THE ONLY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.

With a keen eye towards cutting edge trends and a willingness to break boundaries, Capitol-born style icon and District 12 Escort Effie Trinket has been a fashion pioneer since her very first Hunger Games. She has been known to take the iconic building blocks of contemporary Capitol fashion such as sleeves, hairpieces and bold colors and craft stunning looks that go on to influence all of Panem’s fashion-forward citizens. Whether she is chauffeuring her latest Tributes or walking the boulevards of the Capitol, Effie maintains an exquisite profile that demonstrates her spirit and the pride she takes in her work.

When it comes to the day-to-day, Effie likes to complement her exquisite full body polish with audacious garment selections paired with dazzling footwear such as the daring 24-Karat McQueen peep-toes she was recently spotted wearing in the City Circle. It’s no surprise Capitol designers are literally lining up to create her next pair. And who wouldn’t? When it comes to shoes, Effie’s got sole. “The higher the heel the better. I just love love love dropping by the City Circle in my perspex-heeled metallic booties!”

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Hunger! Games! Fashion! Blog!

Love this

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:55:00 -0500

Love this

verymarykate: layers

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:32:16 -0500

verymarykate:

layers

"I’m a working-class American living in a middle-sized city in 2012, which means I have more..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:21:36 -0500

““I’m a working-class American living in a middle-sized city in 2012, which means I have more access to more volume and variety of food than almost anyone ever has in the history of the world.” —Denver Post departing food editor Tucker Shaw signs off by reminding all us food snobs how good we’ve got it. [Denver Post via John Willoughby/Twitter]”

- A Nice Reminder — Grub Street New York

Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth - NYTimes.com

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:42:57 -0500

Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s Wireless Bandwidth - NYTimes.com:

Looks like I might be part of the 1% after all…

Sent from my iPhone

Hot Buttered Rum Recipe

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:07:06 -0500

Hot Buttered Rum Recipe:

Garden & Gun magazine, you’re full of great suggestions. I believe I’ll follow this hot buttered rum one..

The life of an ornament. So poetic. So inevitably tragic.

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:34:17 -0500

The life of an ornament. So poetic. So inevitably tragic.

Taxi Driver, sweded by Michel Gondry. 3 minutes of pure genius....

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:55:06 -0500

Taxi Driver, sweded by Michel Gondry. 3 minutes of pure genius.

I cannot stop watching this. They have me totally figured out.

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:26:19 -0500

I cannot stop watching this. They have me totally figured out.

Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts - Yahoo! News

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:04:56 -0500

Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts - Yahoo! News:

Ummm, you may want to grab a kleenex for this one…