Homo Evolutis: The New and Improved (Cyborg) Human
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Boing Boing points us to some interesting thoughts from Juan Enriquez. He’s a speaker at TED 2009, and CEO of Biotechnomy, a life sciences research film. One of his theories is that advances in biotech and robotics will help create a new species of human he’s called homo evolutis. This new kind of person would [...]
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Flooded McDonalds: Fast Food Extinction
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Flooded McDonald’s is an eerie film documenting the gradual flooding of a McDonald’s restaurant. Emptied of all staff and customers, the life size replica slowly fills with water as the furniture, food and machines float around, get destroyed and are eventually submerged. The film presents a strange calm destruction of the cultural icon, almost as [...]
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Carles of Hipster Runoff Gets More Authentic
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Hipster Runoff is one of the more curious anomalies of the internet at the moment. It started off as an MP3 blog and has evolved into a strange admixture of seemingly banal textspeak and hipster cultural criticism. Carles, the anonymous blogger behind the site recently talked with the Village Voice, and cryptically sheds some light [...]
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PSFK Event Review: Crowd Likes Its Big Brother at NY Tech Meet-Up
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Privacy is dead.
Well that is at least according to Jeff Jarvis, who made the bold proclamation at this month’s NY Tech Meet-up yesterday. Jarvis, author of “What Would Google Do,” was one of seven individuals/companies that offered their take on the theme “Mobile meets Social” in 5 minute max presentations in front of an audience [...]
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Building ‘Blind Spots’ for the New Urban Environment
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009With the intention of stimulating discussion and debate on how digital networks are transforming our notion of public and private space, the recent Radiator Festival featured numerous projects challenging the dominant forces at work in urban environment and exploring the new territories opened up by hybrid spaces.
One of our favorite projects came from Köbberling&Kaltwasser, who [...]
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Sierra Nevada Transforming Beer Waste into Fuel
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Sierra Nevada Brewing has added to their arsenal of sustainable initiatives with their recent purchase of an EFuel 100 MicroFueler. The device produces ethanol from water, sugar and yeast - the later being something Sierra Nevada has in abundant supply. Around 1.6 million gallons of yeast are produced yearly as a byproduct of the beer [...]
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Garbage is a Growth Industry
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009Garbage is a hot commodity. Whether reclaiming recyclable materials from the waste stream for profit or more altruistic reasons, re-using stuff practically or as an artistic medium, more people are realizing there are a lot of alternate uses for what we’ve previously considered junk. Even edible food can be sourced from the trash according to [...]
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Farmers Market Introduces Bike Valet
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009In an effort to reduce traffic and congestion, the city of Santa Monica instituted a bike valet for their weekly farmers market. Operating more like a coat check than a fancy valet, riders can drop off their bike for safe storage while they grab their veggies. While the free service has been going on for [...]
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Brooklyn Thrift Store Makes A Million
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009In another sign that people are looking for alternative ways to consume and reuse, we were staggered to learn that the Brooklyn branch of the Housing Works Thrift Shop brought in $1 million in sales during 2008. And while these numbers are on par with their other Manhattan stores, as other area retailers are seeing [...]
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Please Take Our Survey: How Should PSFK Use Twitter?
Wednesday, den 4. February 2009As our following on Twitter grows, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to best use the tool.
We’d really appreciate it if you could fill out this survey and let us know how you want PSFK to interact (or not) on Twitter. The survey is one question and will take you less than 20 seconds. [...]
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