January 2012
26 posts
“Why do we have to do time sheets?”
I’m 24 weeks behind on mine.
“I don’t check voicemail.”
Oh god, this is me, 100%
“I don’t know how to drive a car.”
Yep.
WatchVideo diaries outtake.
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Crowdfunding charity workers’ wages
Crowdfunding charity workers’ wages Giifa is a prospective website which hopes to tackle unemployment and help charities and non-profits find staff, using a crowdfunding model to pay for wages.
Over recent months we’ve spotted numerous initiatives designed to help non-profits fundraise via social media platforms and online networks. Now, in the US, Giifa is a prospective website which...
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Google In A Box Helps Bring The Internet To Remote...
In remote parts of the world, finding an answer to a trivial question isn’t as easy as taking out your smartphone and searching for it on Google. Access to a phone or an Internet connection is scarce for many people living in nonindustrial cities or rural areas. California NGO Open Mind hopes to bridge this knowledge gap with Question Box.
This simple “telephone intercom service” features a...
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Half The Sky: Games For Change In The Developing...
A new series of games built for primitive cell phones hopes to make lessons about health fun for players in the world’s poorest regions. It certainly beats reading a pamphlet.
The idea that games can do good is rapidly gaining steam. Just in the past few months, we’ve covered I Heart Jellyfish, a game that rewards players for keeping a healthy heartbeat; WeTopia, a FarmVille-like game that...
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on a musical note...
I hope they disable this for flights before 10am.
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Dutch design graduate Jeriel Bobbe‘s “Me-lo-di” luggage path introduces ribbed wooden tiles to airport floors that can be arranged to create different pieces of music when a traveler pulls their wheeled suitcase along them.
The individual panels, constructed by Netherlands-based production company Bruns, feature ribbed surfaces...
December 2011
22 posts
23
”what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
22 ended in London with a confused heart and my life packed in suitcase and 24 started in Chicago, surrounded by friends, happier than ever and looking towards the next year. The 365 days in between those two moments were a blur, 23 was my venture into adulthood.
This year aged my soul, it wreaked havoc on my heart and it...
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November 2011
9 posts
