Emily Davidow

Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories We kissed. She melted. Mop please! (tags: writing literature humor fiction funny Language short brevity)

A visit to Michael Rakowitz’s Return, an import-export business with iraq and public art project exploring the inequities of war.

SFGate: A menu’s pastoral descriptions may not be what they seem Doing due dilligence on dinner. Knowing the name of the farm where the animals come from is not enough now that Sysco and Cargill have gotten into the pedigreed protein game with White Marble Farms pork. Although it’s been marketed as “all natural” and [...]

Automatic Photo Pop-up software automatically constructs simple “pop-up” 3D models, like those one would find in a children’s book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-v (tags: 3d software Photo photography computer bricolage design visualization photos [...]

Bill McKibben: How close to catastrophe? (via Gristmill: The environmental news blog) A new essay by Bill McKibben, addressing — in the context of reviewing five new books — just how close we are to ecological catastrophe, and what reasons there are for hope. (tags: environment books reviews catastrophe hope) Seed: How to Make Women [...]

(CLL) PHN-LCKN Announced – possible cure for severe micro-cellulotamination We’re terrified. Thanks to tireless researchers at LVHRD, we’ve just learned of the dangers of Severe Micro-Cellulotamination. Apparently, cell phones aren’t as safe as we were told. Fortunate for us, and all of our New York based friends, there is a cure (tags: event nyc culture [...]

Yahoo Time Capsule – by Jonathan Harris The time capsule invites anyone in the world to contribute five simple things: words, pictures, sound, video, and drawings, in response to ten universal ideas: love, sorrow, anger, faith, beauty, fun, past, hope, now, and “you”. (tags: Time Capsule community inspiration art collaboration visualization photography ideas humanity navigation [...]

Boing Boing: Googleplex goes solar Go Andrew! Go solar! Go green power! (tags: energy environment google green podcast solar)

Welcome to GoPets Game of pets for peace – make friends all over the world. When you’re not playing your pet travels and makes new friends. (tags: r06airlie design games peace blogs global play fun dogs cats animals avatars nicolelazzaro) ARGN – Alternate Reality Gaming Network (tags: blog alternate reality game Gaming collaboration community culture [...]

Reveal Labeling Initiative Oh to have reliable, transparent information about a product available at the point of purchase so you can choose wisely and confidently. Nathan Shedroff’s working on it…. Reveal Labeling Initiative looks promising. (tags: sustainability information environment Design consumerism ecological retail decisionmaking transparency green) futuro @ l’femminile – Progetto Donna The future, in [...]

www.steve.museum – Home social tagging of art museum collections. steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data and engaging in discussion in order to improve acess to works of art. (tags: folksonomy tagging art museums museum metadata social visualization tags culture) Verdant Magazine: Smarter Choices for Better [...]

chez pim: Spinach!? Commentary on bagged greens from Andy Griffin, the original owner of Riverside Farms, a pioneer in the bagged baby greens market. Ten years ago he sold Riverside Farms to the company which later became Natural Selections, the company at the very center o (tags: nutrition health science food safety organic bacteria convenience [...]

You can tell how much youlove someone by the amount of time you spend making their scrambledeggs.