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My Own Mary Kate Olson

by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, art, culture, internet, media, style

Stardolls lets you play dress up with real people (as represented by cardboard-like cut-out dolls). “Aren’t I a little old to be doing this?” you may ask Well I’ll have you know I’m one of the target age groups for the site! See? I fit...

A Recipe for web 2.0 success (failure?)

by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, politics, technology

Near Future Laboratory has a great article about the problem of trying to integrate everyday things into a computing paradigm. “There’s a weird conceit in here, that the activities and practices of normal human beings will involve data processing and...

Tap Branding

by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, cool, culture, food, politics

Here’s an idea. Brand tap water in order to compete with the market-saturated and unnecessarily wasteful brand waters. All for a good cause as well. we want tap (via Inhabitat)

Mission Bay Developments

by natecooper | Sep 26, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, san francisco

Seeing these pics just makes me long for San Francisco a little. (via Inhabitat)

What the Fuck (the new) Facebook?

by natecooper | Sep 23, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology

About a year ago (wow! I’ve been blogging pretty consistently for over a year now with nary a hiccup!) I posted about the overabundance and annoyance of Facebook invites due to their inclusion of an apps interface. A year (and a Facebook redesign) later the...

Wealthiest People of All Time

by natecooper | Sep 22, 2008 | culture, politics

Found this interesting article of the top ten richest people of all time on wikipedia. Lest you think this impossible to actually qualify this they have a pretty straight-forward system: “The ranking process is done by the percentage of the total GDP of the...