Looks like this market is doing just fine; MyHappyPlanet is actually solving the problem (i.e. opportunity) which I noted a few days ago.
I hope that this instructable is portentous:
The stock cupholder tray between the front seats of the Honda Odyssey is a well-known spill hazard.
It is possible to modify the stock cupholders to make them less prone to spill.
This instructable gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do it.
Think about this: someone, dissatisfied with their Honda, wants [...]
A while ago, a friend of mine noted something that had been bothering me for some time: when I told people about my university, they were invariably excited, but the message came across more as a menagerie of features than a cohesive vision. Over dinner, he asked me a question I found incredibly helpful [...]
There is a misperception of science/math as “the way” to teach rational, critical thinking. Unfortunately, that puts the cart before the horse: math and science can provide fantastic contexts for rigorous, critical thinking. There’s no doubt that a strong education in the hard sciences can be a straightforward contribution to a student’s ability [...]
And that’s a pretty big idea.
Recently, I commented that one element of Ivan Illich’s work I really appreciate is his focus on infrastructure that addresses needs emergently, rather than focusing on one-step solutions to solving social problems. Too frequently, this one-step bias leads to treating symptoms and leaving causes unaddressed1.
Among other things, this same, [...]
At a meeting for the Center for the Future of Civic Media1 today, Lucy and Clay from ThoughtAndMemory gave a quick talk about their work in the tradition of James Patten’s “Swipe ‘n Gripe”. But, there work isn’t art. It’s real. They’re implementing a system wherein you can text or photograph a [...]
Today I drove out to the Cambridge School of Weston to discuss setting up an electronics/programming/circuit-bending class there during IAP. I arrived about fifteen minutes early, and the teacher was kind enough to invite me to sit in on the last fifteen minutes of her class. In doing so, what I saw and [...]
This is what I was talking about when I said we needed more collaboration among companies. The municipal government informs the mapping service which informs the municipal government.
ZENRIN maps are widely used by local governments and public utility companies. We provide these bodies with diverse maps from fire department maps to electricity, gas, sewage [...]
Why are my friends and acquaintances significant to me? Largely (and couched with deliberate callousness), I care about them because of what they do for me. They provide value. Whether this is because I inevitably have fun around them; because they know how to do the things I want to; or because [...]
This morning, I was taking a nap on the floor in a basement hallway. The steam pipes below ground warm the floor in certain areas; so when I’m cold, I often search out these hotspots.
About forty minutes later, an MIT Police officer woke me, asking for identification. He had received a call for [...]
Given how awful Ticketmaster is and how dissatisfied its customers are, I’m surprised that someone hasn’t come along with a slick “Web 2.0″ solution to this problem. . .Between social networking and Twitter and the plethora of music services like iLike, it seems straightforward to come up with a killer feature list.
So, why hasn’t anyone [...]
I’ve been thinking about how to design self-suffcient, scalable communities. A big theme in my thinking is that scale is a fundamental, but often overlooked factor in the behavior of complex adaptive systems (CASs). We don’t have a good handle on any of the basic, conceptual primitives we want to use when discussing CASs: [...]
I have a big idea.
And it germinated from a few, basic questions:
Why are politics so impenetrable? The political system is shrouded in corruption, money, and law. It is not accessible.
What does it take to be a good, effective citizen? Why is this such a hard role to assume?
How does an unpopular war [...]
Kristi Sword calls them interventions. That word encapsulates a neat idea concisely: public art that stimulates thought using the common domain as a jumping-off point.
Anyway, I’m excited about this idea for a couple reasons:
I don’t know if I’m becoming more aware or if street art is becoming more popular, but between Banksy and Kristi [...]
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