Aug/091
Tijuana
GOOD has published mild compilation of what is going on in Tijuana, the epicentre of the war declared between the drug cartels and the Mexican Government. Tijuana is less than 30km from San Diego - California - but the gradient from poverty and chaos to wealth and solvency could well be the highest in the world.
Aug/092
No more 100W bulbs
As part of the UE decision last December, next Tuesday the 100W bulbs will not be long sold in the EU market. This is part of the process of eliminating all low performance bulbs in 2012.
September next year all 75W bulbs will be gone, a year later the 60W ones, and by 2012 none of the old bulb types will be sold on the UE market.
The EU research estimates that the energy savings will be about 40 Terawatts per hour, this is like switching off the whole Romania and that will save about 15 millions tons of CO2 emissions.
Here in UK there is massive opposition to them, from people that complain about them being too dim - have they bought the right bulb, I ask - to associations of people that suffer migraine that claim that they have strong head aches caused by the small flickering of the light.
Aug/091
One app at a time
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the Iphone advert parody in Adam Thinks. Have a look at his other parodies, just a genius.
There really is an app for almost anything, even when there shouldn't be.
Aug/090
Magnum Photos
Yael met somebody the other day working for Magnum Photos, a very interesting photographers co-operative owned by the photographers themselves. The agency operates world wide and provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums while the rights on those pictures are help in the photographer.
I believe that in today's world of information and trading with it, there is a great value just on the fact that this project managed to survive and develop.
Aug/091
Out of bounds
When the bounds of the frame of a picture are too much, "out of bound" photography comes to the rescue.
I saw it in Presurfer
Aug/090
Pasta Bridge
For those architects and engineers that I know read the blog this "Bridge" made of past was made with just 982 Gr. of egg pasta and managed to held 443.58 Kg. Interesting in minute 2:11.
Aug/091
There is one thing that I learned this week but that somebody already pointed out for me long time ago. You can only trust movement, the events in your life, what really happens and not what people say, I realized that being trusted is a much greater compliment than even being loved.
Aug/091
DIY
Please - I have to say - go and have a look at "There, I fixed it" and please - again - go and visit three or four pages, what I have seen there in just that time, I haven't seen before. My levels of DIY confidence literally rocketed!