Startup How-To Guides. For those of us looking to start a company these guides provide a simple, direct way to learn the nuts and bolts without forking over 100k+ to a top tier MBA program. Related articles Want to pitch at DEMO 2012? Here’s your chance. [Verge Startups] (indysphere.com) Startup Trajectories (growthology.org) Startup is not…
Your daily digest on productivity and life improvements – Stepcase Lifehack. best time management site Related articles I invite you to slip off your old, worn out habits…. (toddlohenry.com) 3 Tips for Being Unique (toddlohenry.com) Ask Yourself “Why?” to Prune Your To-Do Lists [Productivity] (lifehacker.com) Solving the Work-Life Puzzle (openforum.com)
television sets-outdoor television – New York Times. Related articles Free NYC Outdoor Theater Celebrates 50 Years (voanews.com) Outdoor theater: Star Trek’s final frontier (cbsnews.com) Best Outdoor Home Theaters 2012 (cepro.com)
How an informatics analyst at Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cambridge used a U-haul, duffel bag and the native knowledge of local ranchers in Boise, Idaho to acquire cyclopamine from the corn lily plant which normally costs $22,000 a gram…
Great article on the fact that Nokia is investing heavily in a do or die fashion in understanding the anthropology of how people actually use mobile devices in the developing world, and using this to develop a line of low power mobile devices. Nokia Sets Sights on Developing World – Technology Review. Related articles Nokia’s…
As my workshop increasingly looks like a battery wasteland, I’ve come across this idea for easily and quickly building a station to hold the many tools…. Cordless Charging Station Plans – How to Build a Charging Station for Cordless Tools –Popular Mechanics . Related articles Build a Dedicated Laptop Charging Station Into Your Desk (lifehacker.com)…
Over the past years, I’ve realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple’s Find my…
This school in Vermont provides hands on training on sustainable design. They will show you how to build all sorts of things including tiny homes as shown. Certificate in Sustainable Building and Design. Related articles Green Star Workshops and Courses (ecocitizenaustralia.com.au) Zero Carbon Solar-Powered Long Studio Sits Gently Upon the Earth in Rural England (inhabitat.com)…
Great article on Tiny Houses in the New Yorker. The Rise of the Tiny-House Movement Related articles Rise of the Female Gun Nut (nymag.com) Op-Ed: Downsizing the American dream (bostonglobe.com) How To Build A Tiny Home – And Where To Put It (earthtechling.com) Size matters: Small trumps big every…
This guy is a genius. He creates art from junk, scavenged from the Brimfield antique show. Most of it is scraps that nobody else wants. An animal’s skull mounted inside a wheel. A high chair for a baby giant towers at the edge of the woods and the wreck of a boat founders in the garden,…
I love this photographer. Sheep, tobacco barns, barehanded beekeepers, and a bird in the bus.. Lynton is now photographing sheep farmers and tobacco harvesters in Western Massachusetts. Using sugar water as bait, Lynton collected slugs and set them loose until they wriggled into the composition she wanted. Her quest led to a beekeeper in New Mexico…
These shows are beginning to follow a new plot line. In contrast to earlier years, involving McMansions and posh lifestyles, more and more people, broken from the economic downturn, and inspired by books such as a A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle decide to purchase a fixer upper in the country and raise sheep. But…
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