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Ghost Sign Emerges on Hawthorne Lane in San Francisco
There’s construction underway at the corner of Howard Street and Hawthorne Lane in SoMa, and sometime during the last few months the building that previously…
Supernova 2008, Decentralizing Business & Technology
Supernova 2008, a conference on the decentralization of business and technology organized by Kevin Werbach, takes place next week in San Francisco on June 16th…
Improv Everywhere Launches Urban Prankster
Improv Everywhere has just launched the new blog Urban Prankster, featuring pranks, hacks, participatory art, flash mobs, and other creative endeavors that take place in…
Spore Creature Creator and Sporelebrity Contest
Electronic Arts sent me an advance preview of the Spore Creature Creator which is part of the highly anticipated new game Spore, a “massively single-player”…
BMW GINA Light Visionary Model, Featuring a Flexible Exterior
BMW Group Design unveiled their GINA Light Visionary Model concept car, which features a innovative flexible, fabric-like exterior skin.
RoboGames 2008 Ticket Giveaway
We have some tickets to give away for RoboGames which takes place this weekend, June 13-15 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. I will…
StickerGiant Is Hosting a Laptop Stickers Contest
StickerGiant has just announced that they are hosting a laptop stickers contest. The contest is simple. Take a picture of your laptop with stickers, (it…
Apple Previews Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6
This week at WWDC 2008 Apple posted a preview of Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, the next generation of their operating system. Features include…
‘Playing the Building’ Sound Installation by David Byrne
The latest episode of Boing Boing TV features Xeni Jardin visting David Byrne in NYC where he gives her a tour of a the Battery…
iPhone 3G Television Commercial
Apple has posted “Hallway” the first iPhone 3G television ad, which was shown during yesterday’s WWDC 2008 keynote.