Restaurants generally put massive dollars and effort towards their interiors, but details like the menu often leave much to be desired. My new favorite site, Art of the Menu should help alleviate that scenario a bit.
If you missed out on The Artist is Present last year at the MOMA, it’s a video game now. We haven’t had the patience to sit through the lineup to find out what happens when you get to Marina but wouldn’t it be awesome if she turned into a giant demon and you had to slay her with a paint brush to reveal a held captive James Franco under her dress?!
(via Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers - NYTimes.com)
Just in case you thought the footprint of the internet was junior in size, Google estimates it uses continually uses enough electricity to power 200 000 homes.
Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops. This is a pretty big read to tackle over your morning coffee, but if you give it a once over you’ll realize pretty quick it’s worth a referral to your Instapaper. (via Wired)
13% of surveyed adults said they had used their phones to look busy, so they wouldn’t have to talk with others. That percentage more than doubled among young adults aged 18 to 29 years, 30% of whom said they’d faked cell phone use as an avoidance mechanism.
Filter: Yeah, but how many of those 13% use their phone to pretend they’re spies, reporting to their superiors on the comings and goings of transit users, like the guy I saw on the bus the other day fake talking to his phone every 2 minutes?
(Source: murketing)
7 Important Digitization Projects. The Internet has a tweed jacket on today.
London Disorder - Operation Withern - a set on Flickr
Vancouver did this months ago, but leave it to the Brits to one up us with a cool, slick name like OPERATION WITHERN. Total James Bond stuff. (thanks N.A.)
I still haven’t quite figured out what the hell the guys at DIS are doing on the Lower East Side with DISHQ and this NYTimes article isn’t really helping.
This is a Hobo QR code for HAS SHOWERS. Cuz, you know, all them hobo’s have smart phones. Still, a fun idea. Check out the other codes and a stencil generator to make them at F.A.T.
