“We need to find a way to enter into a healthy relationship whereby I am not overly reliant on your approval […] and whereby you are not being an insufferable fucking distraction.”
— From “An Open Letter to the ‘ECO’ Light on the Dashboard of My Car,” by Scott Mancuso (McSweeney’s).
First you set up these little automatic things to remind you to do the right thing. Then you start resenting them (aka yourself).
“We must cultivate our gardens.” A nice thought, Voltaire, but harder to do than one might think.
Or, it used to be, before the advent of SproutRobot, which tells you exactly what vegetables to plant based on your location, and then sends you the seed packets when it’s time to plant them.
It was a Wednesday night in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, and Jared Cohen, the youngest member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and Alec Ross, the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state, were taking their tweeting very seriously.
A changeable facade for Pittsburgh’s Conflict Restaurant, which only serves foods from countries the U.S. is in conflict with.
Via BMD Love Blog
Interactive Map: Where Americans Are Moving on forbes.com
See the USA v Britain goals. In Lego.
By Legofussball via the Guardian.
YouTube + The Guggenheim = Play
via i.imgur.com
Walk through time with the Museum of London’s StreetMuseum.
Via Gizmodo
Tweat.it tastefully sandwiches Twitter and Google Maps to serve nearby street vendors to hungry New Yorkers.
(via: Anders Højmose)
