first break all the rules- economist article

great article about innovation derived from need and constrained by limited resources

Art through Time

watch the episodes on the extracted video player (click on the symbol with two squares), while clicking on works of art that can be magnified through a separate viewer.  kind of a neat experience


http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/

new-aged instant gratification version of a chia pet?

these customer reviews are kinda entertaining...i copied my favorite below.

Chicken Shrek

Posted by lapovamurmurka on 2/2/2010

Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Pros: Nice colourful characters. Good thing for kids for developing observation skills. Lot of fun. Little yellow chicken turned into goblin within 3 days as promised.

Cons: According to the headline, it grows 50 times, but according to the manual with the toy it grows only 600%, which is 6 times.

The manual is a bit... unclear.

Other Thoughts: I should have put it to the beer-glass with a ruler on its side - would be more illustrative how the monster is growing. Actually it keeps growing for more than 3 days. Don't know how long it would dry.

Bottomline: I'll buy more to present to my friends' kids.

a synergy of BLT and TLC

street food!

For anyone who can identify the brilliance of a $1.25 taco....  Roaming Hunger is a site devoted to linking you with the food trucks nearest you. 

banksy in DT LA (i think)

who is banksy?

he is a professional street artist.  his website can be found here.  it's soooo neat*.

*not sure actually if this is him or not but SF got hit so i think he's on the west coast (he's from the UK) but it doesn't really matter because i still think it is cool.

indie film fest guide

50 indie film fests

http://www.indiewire.com/festival/browse/a-z/