A recent study found that driving while talking on your mobile quadruples your crash risk with only a minor difference between holding the phone to your ear or using a hand-free setup. Assuming this is true, and we’ll need some additional studies to be sure, is it time to make driving while talking [...]
There’s a second story behind the launch of the iPod Nano and that story is that in order to get the price so low, it purchased 40% of Samsung’s flash memory production. In doing so, it is now believed that Apple is getting their hands on memory at a dramatically lower price than any [...]
File under everything old is new again: Combining old school J.C. Penny with new school ingenuity and modern design, Dwell Magazine is going to sell pre fabricated homes that are well designed.
Resolution: 4 Architecture
Lazor Office Flatpack
Empyrean NextHouse
The upside to this is that over time it will mean more affordable housing that is well designed. [...]
When the original Super Mario Bros came out in the 80s, you could watch newbies play and whenever they pushed the button to make mario jump, their hands would jump up in the air as well as if it would help their character jump farther. It was funny to watch and if you played [...]
If you believe in serious mass transit in Seattle, read on. We need your help tonight.
Tonight at 5:30, the new monorail director is going to answer the mayor’s deadline and present his plan for building our monorail. If you haven’t made it to a meeting before, this is a good one to attend [...]
I went by the Apple store here in Seattle yesterday to see the new iPod Nano. Holding it in my hands, it just seemed impossibly small yet completely compelling. It was one of those moments where your brain can’t discern between technology and magic.
Pizzazz!, Seattle’s after-school talent show for the childless, is no more. Pizzazz! was a city-wide talent show that The Stranger ran for the last five years and just as I was about to ask if it was happening again this year, I’ve learned that, sadly, Pizzazz! is no more. (Yes, the exclamation point [...]
Those who enjoy their literacy iced liberally with whimsy were out in mass for the 826 Seattle Benefit last night. Those in attendance got a lesson from Sarah Vowell on how a song about an abolitionist terrorist became The Battle Hymn of the Republic and David Eggers read a heartfelt letter from a dog [...]
Back in 2002, I watched an episode of NOW with Bill Moyers where they talked about what would happen if a major storm went through New Orleans. If you have a few minutes, listen to the audio of this particular story. It’s from three years ago, but it tells us a lot about [...]
