May 2011

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The Volkswagen Camper Van Tent. If you love music, mud and Mother Nature you're probably heading to a camp site at some point this summer. But why take shelter in some dull, conventional tent when you can recreate the Summer of Love in the hippie-tastic VW Camper Van Tent. ...

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OK, this is not super new but it may be the coolest skate-related thing I've seen come out of Japan since the Nakano Sun Plaza candle made out of skateboard wax: ...

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Our generation's future is headed on a one-way trip down the toilet -- that is, unless we do something fast. This year's graduating class faces the most college debt in history, mass layoffs on a regular basis, and, let us not forget that only 1 out of 4 college seniors will have jobs upon graduation this...

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A while back I spent the day working with a group of about 150 educators who’d been brought together by one of their state’s regional service centers. I fine it a particularly cruel thing to do, forcing a group of adults to spend six-hours paying attention to one person. So on this day, I decided...

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A project, two years in the making, was revealed this week at the Computer Human Interaction conference in B.C. The device created by students from Texas A&M University is called ZeroTouch and looks like an empty picture frame. Don’t let the looks deceive you, though. It is equipped with infrared sensors and embedded LEDs which...

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[caption id="attachment_2536" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="May 15, 2011, after the London show (from summvs.blogspot.com)"][/caption] Alva Noto (aka Carsten Nicolai) is keeping a simple blog with photos and low-res videos of his current S tour with Ryuichi Sakamoto at summvs.blogspot.com. Noto and Sakamoto's new album, Summvs, is reportedly their last together. If you're unfamiliar with their collaborations, you might...