December 2008
No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty in Innovative... →
“The concept of the passive house, pioneered in this city of 140,000 outside Frankfurt, approaches the challenge from a different angle. Using ultrathick insulation and complex doors and windows, the architect engineers a home encased in an airtight shell, so that barely any heat escapes and barely any cold seeps in. That means a passive house can be warmed not only by the sun, but also by the...
Excoffizer →
U.S. Department of State Blog →
ChangeDetection - Know when any web page changes →
I wish I had known about this 5 years ago. Particularly useful for tracking small organization web site event or deadline updates - which tend to happen fast and with no notice.
Half of Americans’ Photographs Will Disappear →
“Americans have taken nearly 550 billion non-digital photos in their lifetimes, yet only about half (55.4%) have tried to preserve even some of them, instead leaving them to fade away in basements, attics and living rooms, according to a new survey. That means at least half of all the consumer photographs taken in the analog era are in danger of being lost, forever.”
Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine... →
“Bush’s midnight regulations will: • Make it easier for coal companies to dump waste from strip-mining into valleys and streams. • Ease the building of coal-fired power stations nearer to national parks. • Allow people to carry loaded and concealed weapons in national parks. • Open up millions of acres to mining for oil shale. • Allow healthcare workers to opt out of giving treatment for...
Portfolio Center | Interviews | Steff Geissbuhler →
Story of the Obama logotype →
Very nice interview with the designer.
‘R2-D2′ and Other Lessons from Bell Labs →
“… the energy industry spends a smaller proportion of its revenue on research than the dog-food industry…”
Tell Obama Your Ideas →
TEAFCO Argo →
Wow, finally, decent looking pet carriers.
Dubberly Design Office is pink →
The Real Generation X - NYTimes.com →
“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Tom Brokaw’s book “The Greatest Generation,” that classic about our parents and their incredible sacrifices during World War II. What I’ve been thinking about actually is this: What book will our kids write about us? “The Greediest Generation?” “The Complacent Generation?” Or maybe: “The Subprime Generation: How My Parents Bailed Themselves Out for Their...
Nikon Small World - Photomicrography Competition →
Guide to Greener Electronics →
Missing: Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Kodak, and other digital camera makers except for Sony, Panasonic, Casio, and Samsung.
Study: Over Half of Inkjet Printer Ink is Thrown... →
“All the buildings in the United States are responsible for 40% of all the...”
– http://www.usgbc.org/
America’s hidden war in Somalia --... →
War on terror's hidden front -- chicagotribune.com →
Alltop - Top Photography News →
Alltop - Top Typography News →
Humanity May Hold Key For Next Earth Evolution →
“Human degradation of the environment has the potential to stall an ongoing process of planetary evolution, and even rewind the evolutionary clock to leave the planet habitable only by the bacteria that dominated billions of years of Earth’s history…”
Antarctica Has More Species Than Galapagos, First... →
The Designer's Review of Books — Books for the... →
Dear Mr. President… →
Americans studying overseas →