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July 19th, 2007No updates in the near future
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Colour Lovers give answers to that sort of questions and explain the origin of our associations with colours.

»Legacy« (2005) is a 21-foot-long rainbow made of cast street sweepings that emerges from a planter on MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn. The rainbow’s seven bands range in tone from brown to gray, and are flecked with color. They are cast from actual debris collected on seven consecutive days by the city’s street sweeping machines: dirt, grit, gravel, gum wrappers, bottle caps, socks, plastic combs, and whatever other litter the sweeper picked up during the course of a day. There is a small bronze beard that appears to be crawling out of the hole in the ground where the rainbow emerges. By Corin Hewitt. (via VVORK)

ASUS has released the ASUS EcoBook, a notebook that features laptop cases made of bamboo and manufactured using ecologically friendly manufacturing techniques. ASUS also offers a leather covered notebook line.
(via netscape)
This article explains the history of money and why it works.
Because Google did not want to put the new location in their maps, which the Royal College of Art occupied because of their 150th anniversary, student Robert Sollis put a real mark on the ground, which maybe will be seen during the next satellite scan.
(via VVORK)

A very beautiful bridge between the virtual and real world by Mike and Maaike.
“An exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Using Google Image Search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the resulting low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred onto leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.”
(via MoCo Loco)

Google has this great tool that let’s you see the most popular search words of the day. Check it out!