Idea: Dance-powered eco night clubName: Club4Climate — whose dance floor supplies enough energy to power 60 percent of the facility and whose door policy offers discounts to patrons who walked, biked, or subwayed to the club, according to Springwise.Founder: Dr. Earth(Via Springwise)
The next book I recommend for your summer reading list is Now The Hell Will Start by Brendan Koerner. This one may be non-fiction. But the narrative is so weirdly compelling — and the Koerner’s eye for detail so wonderful — that it reads like a novel.The story begins on the segregated streets of World
Now that we’ve made it past the Fourth of July, many of you are assembling your summer reading lists. Because I’m here to serve, let me offer two suggestions — books I recently finished and heartily recommend.The first is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. It’s one of the best novels I’ve
Recharge Pod‘s wind-powered mobile phone charging station for outdoor events, which premiered this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival. (HT: Springwise)
Median age of U.S. householder: 38Median age of U.S. network television viewer: 50(Source: Variety, 6/29/08)
Officials in North Carolina recently discovered that some Tar Heel license plates are inadvertently asking Johnny Bunko’s central question. That’s prompted the state DMV to offer new plates to anyone uncomfortable with a certain ubiquitous three-letter query. (HT: Beth Holmes)
(cross-posted from JohnnyBunko.com)The older I get, the more I realize how stupid it is to be, try to be, or think you are the smartest person in the room. Now comes a bit of empirical proof.Here’s a short audio op-ed from social psychologist Robert Cialdini, co-author of the outstanding new book Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to
Over at Marci Alboher’s always excellent blog, author Maggie Jackson shares some interesting thoughts about the modern workplace’s culture of distractions. Among other findings, Jackson reports that:• “The average knowledge worker switches tasks every three minutes, and, once distracted, a worker takes nearly a half-hour to resume the original task.” • “Interruptions and the requisite recovery time now consume
Since its debut in 2003, Apple’s iTunes has sold more than 5 billion songs — an average of more than 100,00 songs per hour every our for the last five years. (Source: Wired.com, 6/19/08)
Here’s a sign I spotted today at Washington Reagan National Airport touting a conference called What’s Coming Next . . . which took place two-and-a-half months ago.
