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...
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)
by natecooper | Sep 26, 2008 | aesthetics, cool, digital media, nate, photography
Crave…
by natecooper | Sep 26, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, san francisco
Seeing these pics just makes me long for San Francisco a little. (via Inhabitat)
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...
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...
by natecooper | Sep 21, 2008 | aesthetics, cities, cool, culture, media, politics
Yes yes yes yes!! This article by yahoo news (I know! wow.) enumerates a number of issues I’ve been meaning to gather into a thoughtful, drawn-out post. Basically the public subsidy of cars is destroying any possibility for modern American cities to develop more...
by natecooper | Sep 21, 2008 | art, culture, photography, style
Found this photo series by JeongMee Yoon incredibly disturbing. It makes me wonder — if I had children how much I would invest in their frivolousness. It also makes me chillingly aware of the insane amount of products I must have owned as a child. I’m sure...
by natecooper | Sep 20, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, style
Mighty Optical Illusions has some neat pictures of some ladies in camoflage against stylish and colorful patterns by Emma Hack.
by natecooper | Sep 20, 2008 | cities, culture, world
Apparently its not completely possible. This lengthy but interesting (and pic filled) story from Dark Roasted Blend details the many many reasons why attempting such a trip is not only very challenging but nearly suicidal. A section of Southern Panama called the...
by natecooper | Sep 20, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, internet, media
EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo. Ooooo! Rainbow-tastic. With a hint of Office Space. (via hrrrthrrr)
by natecooper | Sep 19, 2008 | cool, internet, style
Kind of a nifty test that tests your ability to place colors in a spectrum. I thought I was color-blind partially to blue and greens but I seemed to do alright on the test, however, I’m still not exactly sure based upon the score how well I did. (via mari...