Even in our increasingly digital world of iPhones and Blackberrys, there’s something satisfying about a good To-Do list - the kind you write out on actual paper and cross items off of as tasks like “Drink Coffee” and “Fix the Economy” are completed. Or in another form, ...

As much as the internet has fueled innovation through the free exchange of ideas and collaboration with anyone across the globe, are we also remaking a market economy that only benefits those on top who control the mass lines of distribution? Wired considers the pitfalls of crowdsourcing - a phenome...

The ways our food is produced, packaged and shipped stand at the center of an ongoing debate about the health of our planet and ourselves, but the key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one. And this involves a...

Anthropologist and author Grant McCracken looks at the state of our economy and asks the question “What will the current downturn mean to consumers?” He then offers up various models to explain the possible lasting impacts this trip through the recession looking glass might have on our s...

Back in February, we wrote about proposed device called the LightLane that would create a laser projected mobile bike lane for cyclists navigating the streets at night and now Streetsblog directs us to conceptual design for a low tech, daytime version. Conceived as part of the Power to the Pedal Co...

We received an email the other day from Craig’s Kitchen, a community action group that supports their local soup kitchen in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn through fundraising and organizing volunteers. As an alternative for busy city dwellers who want to get involved but might not oth...

Recent studies conducted by researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon might go a long way in explaining our spending habits or in the case of the current economic downturn, our penny-pinching ways. Apparently, during every purchase we make there is an emotional tug of warm taking place ...

Wired columnist Scott Brown informs us that the traditional model of storytelling is broken.  From Brown’s perspective, our tried and true formulas like Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey” and Freytag’s Pyramid that involve a simple narrative structure - beginni...

On January 9th, video content provider Hulu removed several seasons of the popular F/X series, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“ from their website with no advance warning. Despite Hulu’s general stance on taking down content (they would prefer not to do it), such moves ...

We wrote last month about the city of Los Angeles winning a court appeal to uphold their ban on new billboards but despite the legislation, many advertisers continue to try and skirt the wording of the law by putting up supergraphics signs instead.  Supergraphics are essentially enormous advertise...