Archive for September, 2009

The Average Person Is Always Right

"the average person (and, thereby, common sense) is right almost all the time.  it correctly predicts that most new products will be failures, because most new products ARE failures.  What it can never predict, in fact is 100% wrong about every time, is a GOOD new idea.  It will always miss those."via ilounge.com...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine

‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. "Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger." Visit their website and click the images. Some are movies and each one is cute, inspiring or even just plain...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Automatic Kite Drawing

via todayandtomorrow.net Automatic is a video and drawing project by William...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Entrepreneurial Code of Conduct: Take the Oath…

Doctors have the Hippocratic Oath. It is an ethical framework on which they can fall back when they have doubts about the right course of action. I think it must be comforting to have some kind of guidelines to fall back to when the shit hits the fan. As far as I'm aware there is no Hippocratic Oath for entrepreneurs. I think there should be. In business you are often forced to seek out the boundaries of ethic behavior. How much profit can you make before you feel like an extortionist? How...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

If Picasso would have been alive today…

Was Picasso a great painter or a great artist? I think he was a great artist and used the technologies that were available to him at the time. What would have been his medium of choice were he alive today? Would he blog? Use Twitter? Make animated GIFs like the image above? Or produce weird videos and be famous on Youtube? Is talent universal and...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

Modern version of ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’

via todayandtomorrow.net I talked about 'Der Lauf Der Dinge' before. The original is a classic but I like this new bluetooth, gsm and infrared powered version...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

The Road to Success

I'm so glad someone finally gave me a map. Click for a bigger...
READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>