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...

A designer in Holland has revamped the interior of Amsterdam ad agency Nothing with interlocking cardboard. The office redesign by Joost van Bleiswijk used 500 square meters of reinforced cardboard and did not to use any glue or screw to interconnect the 1500 separate pieces. More Photos on Jaachim ...

After a hard day of writing code at the Department of Justice, Sabbo settled into his favorite chair to watch the evening news. But instead of his usual glass of iced tea, that night it was a tumbler-full of Johnnie Walker Black on rocks. Though it was a pretty normal day at work, the ride home was ...

Having been around the track quite a few times over my checkered career, I’m once again starting to pick up that rancid smell of fear which always permeates the Adverati when the economy begins its inexorable tightening of the marketing budget screws after the excesses of the “money grows on tre...

Format wars are commonplace in the modern history of electronics. Even Thomas Edison had to deal with political and corporate wrangling for the format of his early wax audio cylinder records invented in 1877.  The dispute over which audio recording format would become the standard continued until 1...

- I'm glad to see the US won their first two games. Getting Canada and Venezuela to start the tournament is as tough of a draw as anyone else had. The pitching depth on the US frankly seems like crap compared to the sort of pitching depth we could have if spring training [...]...

Although it was a giant telecom, Mike couldn't have imagined how huge "AQ&V" actually was. What seemed like miles of occupied cubicles stretched from wall to wall in labyrinthine passages. Weaving their way through aisles of well-dressed employees silently typing on their computers, Mi...

I like Bruce Nussbaum’s list of what he’d like to see in The Stimulus Bill. The premise of his piece is that INNOVATION got a bit left out in the discussion and writing of the bill i.e., the process to get us to a healthy economy. Nussbaum does believe Obama has a vision for an America that is â...

I’m sure by now you’ve already read or, God forbid, Tweeted about the news that Ryanair, Irelands famous and somewhat notorious discount airline, might soon start putting coin slots on the bathroom doors of their planes. I mean, when you consider the appallingly shitty state of the airline indus...

It's Monday and time for another edition of Six Word Player Evaulations. The first evaluation was that of Joe Mauer. The results are in and the winning six word evaluation of Joe Mauer is: "He ain't Jesus, but close enough." I set up a page for this silliness here. You [...]...