links for 2008-10-7
October 7, 2008
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Instant Suburb of Prefabs Hits New York [Wired]
Tourists press up against the construction fence on the corner of 53rd and Sixth, staring speechless as a giant crane lifts an entire bathroom into the air and deposits it in what will be a master bedroom. Cellophane House is five stories tall, with floor-to-ceiling windows, translucent polycarbonate steps embedded with LEDs, and exterior walls made of NextGen SmartWrap, an experimental plastic laminated with photovoltaic cells. -
Yahoo is continuing its marathon merger discussions with AOL, sources close to the negotiations have whispered to us, and a deal could happen as early as this month. Is this just a rehash of the reported discussions in February and then again in April?
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MINI Motoring Graphics is MINI’s partnership announced today with Original Wraps, Inc. that allows MINI owners to add a little flair to their exteriors and interiors. From full-on custom jobs to small round badges, the program presents over 5,000,000 options enabling drivers to stand out from the masses on the road.
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SomeRightsReserved is the awesome online store of the London-based KithKin design collective. The shop, billed as “a download revolution” features both digital products (such as music and fonts) and directions/instructions for building physical items.
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During Sotheby’s record-breaking Damien Hirst evening auction last month, the saleroom felt like something out of a Cold War science-fiction novel. On the day that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the American financial markets began their freefall, the Russians seemed to be celebrating their new-found billions by buying diamond cabinets and gold butterfly paintings with names like New Midas’s Lie.
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Every week on AMC TV’s Mad Men John Hamm’s character, Don Draper, and John Slattery’s Roger Sterling lead the men and women at the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper. They create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, while they chain-smoke, drink and womanize.
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If George W. Bush and John Kerry campaigned for the presidency on the Internet four years ago, I wouldn’t have seen the point and likely would have laughed in their faces. Who would have heard and listened to them?
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The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code – but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.
