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Saturday, 31 July, 2010

High Quality Bookmarks goes on vacation

It’s vacations time. At last.

High Quality Bookmarks won’t post for the following three weeks. But it will come back. See you all then.

Have a great summer everyone!

Friday, 30 July, 2010

Made for music

A simple yet brilliant idea which makes this package stand out.

Core77 has the details.

Urbanized

If you know Helvetica or Objectified then you will certainly want to know about Urbanized, the latest film by Gary Hustwit.

The third documentary in this trilogy is about the design of cities. Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

The longest photographic exposures

Impressive.

This one is exposured from July 1996 to Kuly 1997.

Thursday, 29 July, 2010

Why do we yawn?

In a word:

Yawns help cool the brain.

The whole story is very interesting.

The Cog (by Honda)

Jaw dropping commercial by Honda.

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What if Earth stopped spinning around?

In a word: tragedy.

If earth ceased rotating about its axis but continued revolving around the sun and its axis of rotation maintained the same inclination, the length of a year would remain the same, but a day would last as long as a year. In this fictitious scenario, the sequential disappearance of centrifugal force would cause a catastrophic change in climate and disastrous geologic adjustments (expressed as devastating earthquakes) to the transforming equipotential gravitational state.

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Wednesday, 28 July, 2010

The best magazine articles

When Kevin Kelly suggests some magazines articles as the best ones from all time, you certainly need to take a look at the list.

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A life without goals

If you live without goals, you’ll explore new territory. You’ll learn some unexpected things. You’ll end up in surprising places. That’s the beauty of this philosophy, but it’s also a difficult transition.

How would be a life without goals?

Productivity software: the ultimate collection

So you are a Mac user and you often search for software that will help you organise your work or boost your productivity.

Look no more. Appstorm has the ultimate collection.

Leaf tie

Leaf tie, ties your cables in an elegant way. I bet girls will love it.

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Tuesday, 27 July, 2010

REK coffee table

What a beaty! REK is a coffee table we should definitely buy.

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Success requires cooperation

There is something to be said for being the smartest or the most talented one in the room…too bad it doesn’t help much in reality.

In order to success you must work with others.

A wall of 500 colored pencils

Painting a better world.

(Thanks sug)

Monday, 26 July, 2010

The end of forgetting

The Web is the place where everything is recorded. Get use to it.

Ostritch

Ostrich is a new Twitter client which lives in Safari. Minimal and lightweight.

Firefox goes candy

The new era of browsers is approaching us. Let’s start with Firefox.

Friday, 23 July, 2010

A huge environmental disaster in China

Take a look at this photo. What does it show? The results of an invasion by aliens?
No. It’s again all about a huge oil spill. This time in China.

There’s more evidence of the disaster.

Spok

I am always amazed by the new intelligent ways to use light.

This time is Spok. Go and see by yourself.

(via the lovely Minimalissimo)

The real essence of “Carpe Diem”

“Carpe diem” doesn’t mean seize the day—it means something gentler and more sensible. “Carpe diem” means pluck the day.

A bit of poetry comes next.

Thursday, 22 July, 2010

Magica & Magica 2

Mysterious chairs.

Money doesn’t make us happy

(...) because money allows us to enjoy the best things in life – we can stay at expensive hotels and eat exquisite sushi and buy the nicest gadgets – we actually decrease our ability to enjoy the mundane joys of everyday life. (...) And since most of our joys are mundane – we can’t sleep at the Ritz every night – our ability to splurge actually backfires.

Jonah Lehrer moved his blog in WIRED and started with this great article on why money can’t buy happiness.

Wednesday, 21 July, 2010

A multileveled house

I can’t imagine how would be to live in such a multilevelled house. Would it make you feel dizzy? Or would it reveal you a new world?

Dangerous questions

There’s no point asking questions like:

“How can we create peace in the Middle East?”

Why? Because you can’t get really useful answers. Instead try this one:

“Do Israelis and Arabs communicate in different ways?”

Here’s an excellent analysis on dangerous questions. It requires your time but it will pay you back.

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Measures & Dimensions iPhone app

My Measures & Dimensions is a powerful application for storing and sharing object dimensions.

Another simple idea which makes you think (again): Why didn’t I thought of it first?

Tuesday, 20 July, 2010

The huge success of Tumblr

Tumblr, the ultra flexible and easy to be used blogging machine now has over than 6 million users.

No surprises. Nothing compares to it.

A round calendar

Good idea for a new kind of calendar. A round one.

However, the quality of the paper makes it much less attractive.

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Monday, 19 July, 2010

A perfect ad

That’s a perfect ad. If watch it once, you’ll definitely want to watch it at least once more.

Now, you may also want to read why most ads suck.

Loop

Simple yet very elegant iPad stand.

Steven fry on technology, success and life

It’s one of those videos than can change your life. Really.

Saturday, 17 July, 2010

Why entrepreneurs should write

Tweeting, Facebooking, Tumblring, etc., are all well worth your time, but I’ve found that nothing garners quite a following like a well-thought out collection of essays. (...) If you want to stand out from the crowd you first have to set yourself apart by drawing a line in the sand about where you stand on what issues.

Exactly.

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A pride owner of an Apple product

From The Oatmeal of course.

(Thank you Antony)

Friday, 16 July, 2010

On Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks

Frank Chimero tells us a beautiful story about the famous painting of Edward Hopper, Nighthawks.

Plants “think and remember”

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

Now it is scientifically proven.

Periodic table of swearing

Hilarious.

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Morning people win

When it comes to business success, morning people hold the important cards.

Next: Define a morning person.

It is someone who gets up at roughly the same time on weekdays as on weekends.

Can you be an early bird?

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Thursday, 15 July, 2010

9 hours

Urban life is rapidly changing. Hotels like 9 hours aim to cover particular needs. People in Japan seem to fit in this lifestyle.

Put your history to the world

Historypin is a new fascinating online service with which you can put your spot on this world. How? By adding your photos on a “history” map.

Starbucks lose their “why” factor

But, like so many companies that make it big, Starbucks forget the reason it was founded and started to think it was their product that made them successful. Put simply, Starbucks has lost its Why.

A perfectly written article by Simon Sinek.

On the work of Caravaggio

A great analysis of the work of Caravaggio.

The visceral violence and eroticism of his work are only an aspect of the extraordinary realism he achieved. His painting was utterly different from that of his predecessors and contemporaries. It looks, to put it in modern terms, like a film noir. As David Hockney has put it: “He invented a black world that had not existed before, certainly not in Florence or Rome. Caravaggio invented Hollywood lighting.”

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