When a grocery store in Süderlügum, Germany offered $276 in free groceries to anyone willing to shop naked, they expected maybe 10 brave souls. They got more like 250, including folks from nearby Denmark who cross the border to shop for cheaper alcohol. This video is, I hardly need to tell you, not really safe for work -- although there's nothing all that titillating about it.
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Everything is a Remix Part 1.
With startup True&Co, big data meets bra shopping
30 May
Technology has helped bring about a retail shift that now means I can buy my consumer goods without ever leaving my house, my husband's shaving gear without ever thinking about it and now, thanks to True&Co, my bras without ever having a lady in a department store wrap a tape measure around my chest. I love the Internet.
Transparent Cube In Copenhagen Harbour
19 May
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed the hedquarters for one of Denmark’s leading mortgage banks, Nykredit. The ten-storey glass structure amply endows the office spaces with natural light from the harbour, thus linking the floors together. The CEO’s office is situated on the 9th floor and contains a clothing cabinet with a hidden escape hatch, built on his request.
Groupon's Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates: $559.3M In Revenue, $1.35B In Groupons Sold
14 May
Groupon just published its second quarterly earnings report after going public in 2011. The Chicago-based company made $559.3 million in revenue during the first quarter of 2012, up 89% year-over year. Groupon also announced that the total amount of money it collected from customers for Groupons sold (excluding taxes and estimated refunds) increased 103% from $668.2 million in the same quarter last year to $1.35 billion in Q1 2012.
Hexagonal Pewter Stool
14 AprA designer, Max Lamb, decided to return to his favourite beach on the south coast of Cornwall, UK, to make stools utilizing a primitive form of sand-casting. A childhood spent building sandcastles inspired Lamb to design stools by pouring molten pewter into a sand mould and hand sculpt it into the beach.
Volcano-Shaped Shopping Center
3 Apr
Il Vulcano Buono, built in Nola - province of Naples, southern Italy.
Hyperrealistic Paintings
28 MarSpanish artist Pedro Campos has created a collection of hyperrealistic paintings that use oil on canvas to mirror familiar consumer objects.
Corliss: Grinding The Crack [Clip]
13 Dec
Two GoPro HD cameras joins Jeb Corliss and his wing suit down a mountain in Switzerland.
Steam Engine Made Of Glass
4 Nov
A Model of Stephenson’s Steam Engine, made in 2008, by glassblower Michal Zahradník. Description:
The crankshaft is glass. The piston is glass. The counterweight that makes the wheel spin evenly is glass. Everything is made out of glass, and no sealants are used. All is accomplished by a perfectly snug fit. The gap between the piston and its compartment is so small, that the water that condensates from the steam seals it shut! Notice the elaborate excessive steam exhaust system next to the piston. The piston is the most arduous part to make due to extreme level of precision needed. Its parts have to be so accurate that no machinery is of use here. The piston and its cylinder must be hand sanded to perfection, and they are very likely to crack in the process. On average, three out of four crack.
Everything Is A Remix
24 Jul
Everything is a Remix Part 1.
Message From The Creator:
Remixing is a folk art but the techniques are the same ones used at any level of creation: copy, transform, and combine. You could even say that everything is a remix.
Source: Everything Is A Remix.
Legacy Of Champagne
15 Jun
Jean François de Troy's Luncheon with Oysters (1735) included the first time that sparkling champagne was depicted in a painting //Wikipedia
Economic Researchers, Jeremy Edwards And Sheilagh Oglivie (University of Cambridge) just published a new paper covering What Lessons for Development We Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs. A delightful and quite readable paper, according to Tyler Cowen. Here is the abstract:
«The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs’ decline, and the institutions for securing property rights and enforcing contracts at the fairs. It finds that contract enforcement at the fairs did not take the form of private-order or corporative mechanisms, but was provided by public institutions. More generally, the success and decline of the Champagne fairs depended crucially on the policies adopted by the public authorities.»
Download The Paper Here.
Assorted Amusements
1 May
James Altucher: I Want My Daughters to Be Lesbians.
Some Of Google’s Weirdest Investments.
Washington State Lotto Commercial.
Worst Condoms Ever? Trojan.
Shortened Royal Wedding!
The Perfect Library Desk.
Cartoon: Food Scarcity.
A dose Christopher Walken, at his best, from SNL:
Free Soloing: Ropeless Climbing
21 Apr
Watch the video on National Geographic’s site here or click on the image.
About the clip [via NG]:
«Alex Honnold makes the first free solos of the largest walls in North America. He scales 2,000 feet with only shoes and chalk bag—no rope, no safety, and no room for error. Though he’s a superhero on the walls, off the rock Alex is a shy, self-effacing young guy living in his van.»
WSJ Markets
- Fed's Varied Voices Leave Market GuessingBernanke said the Fed could start reducing bond buying "in the next few meetings" but warned against premature action, amid conflicting messages that roiled markets.
- Gap Is Starting to Look OverdressedAhead of the Tape: Profits never go out of fashion. Sadly, the same can't be said for the wares on display at Gap and its competitors.
- Ghana Looks to Join Bond BandwagonGhana hopes to become the latest African country to ride the wave of cheap borrowing with the sale of a new bond aimed at international markets for only the second time in its history.
- Copper Rises on Supply ConcernsCopper prices settled near six-week highs but pulled back from earlier peaks, as worries about the future of the Fed's monetary stimulus tempered suggestions of tighter supplies.
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