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Cool stuff digest: August 2010

September 1, 2010

Things that I liked in August

  1. Who killed more people in the Bible, God or Satan? A bar graph;
  2. Collaborative design thinking;
  3. New concept of bus in China;
  4. Informative infographics video about freecycling consumption trends driven by technology;
  5. Cool service for electronic content promotion: pay with tweet;
  6. Reduce stress scientifically;
  7. New good & free internet radio: Soma FM;
  8. Wikipedia edit wars :)
  9. Service that forms movies recommendations generated based on your friends’ tweets;

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Japan: devil is in the detail

July 19, 2010

Distinctive features of Japan are well-thought design and attention to details. Compared to Russia the difference is easily visible: economy instead of wide scope, neatness instead of coarseness.

This post is going to be a mixture of various interesting and maybe funny things that didn’t match any particular topic of other posts. So, what caught my inquisitive sight?

Take elevator, for instance. Notice additional buttons for children and disabled.

Japan Tokyo elevator design

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Cool stuff digest: June 2010

June 25, 2010

  1. NYTimes on multi-tasking vs. mono-tasking & addiction to gadgets;
  2. Shanghai 1990 vs 2010;
  3. An absolutely awesome creative blog – visualization of worthy speeches;
  4. Quite an interesting research: comparison of the “pace of life” betw. different cities;
  5. Interactive map by Kayak that shows the lowest tickets prices based on your current location;
  6. Atypically interesting article about procrastination by Steve Pavlina;
  7. Pencil drawing that can easily be confused with photos;
  8. Hilarious TED talk that actually makes you laugh out loud, great perspective on marketing & ads as well;
  9. Cool ideas by Kevin Rose on improving ebooks reading experience;
  10. Scientific look at lucid dreams;
  11. Lively promo video about Iceland: stunning sights;
  12. WordPress 3.0 is available for download;
  13. Google Chrome extensions sync;
  14. Guide to create really good/bad TED talks;
  15. 6 Japanese Subcultures That Are Insane;
  16. Beautiful pictures of stars and waves;
  17. Retro futurological art;
  18. How to create little planets using Photoshop;
  19. How to get your dream job for $6 using Google Adwords;;
  20. How to run on water;
  21. Mood visualization based on twitter smiles;
  22. Sarcastic and very funny video about customer & vendor relations in marketing;
  23. How to take a scenery photo free of people when it’s overcrowded;
  24. Stunning athletic performance;
  25. Videos from the places with the longest life longevity;
  26. Threadsy – Gmail, Facebook & Twitter in one window;
  27. How various teas (green, oolong, etc.) are processed;
  28. Curious project which aims to create a movie about our planet all shot in one day all over the world;
  29. TED talk that answers the question “What Leonardo da Vinci Really Looked Like” ;
  30. Worth watching talk by venture-capitalist Fred Wilson on “10 ways to be your own boss”;
  31. Just a funny picture that illustrates how Gantt diagrams feel in reality;
  32. Video that shows how augmented reality can potentially look like.

You can find more actual links in twitter and in my Google Reader shared items.

“Cool stuff digest” is an experimental genre. And probably this is the first and the last post. I wonder if it’s of any interest to you.

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Cool stuff digest: May 2010

1. Presentation hacks for entrepreneurs (elevator pitch, etc) 2. How to create little planets using Photoshop 3. Glowing stickers for keyboard 4. Awesome speech by Tim Ferriss on how to deal with haters! 5. How to get your dream job for $6 using Google AdWords 6. 11 Presidents’ Favorite Books 7. Free application to track [...]

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