According to a new study, social media is more a buzz about Apple, the new iPhone, and the privacy issues on Facebook more than the oil spill. I can understand why a little. After we voice our opinion on the efforts to clean it up, what more is there to say or do. On the [...]

I have some friends going to the internet retailers conference this week in Chicago. This is basically for anyone who has a selling business of any kind on the internet. There are going to be a lot of people representing every type of exhibit company you can think of. I like these events, I imagine [...]

If you’re reading the title, no, I haven’t found a home made of Legos, but I did hear about a company via inhabitat.com that uses a similar concept for modular homes. PAF architecture has been working with the concept of snapping parts that can offer eco-friendly housing and a chance to break away from the [...]

As someone who likes technology and sees the benefits of it, I have to say that there are sometimes when it’s ok to be away from the internet for a while. Take, for instance, the iLoo. This was designed by Microsoft’s UK branch for public access. It’s a public toilet with internet access. That’s right; you [...]

The reason for this is that Facebook has signed on to keep it’s slew of social games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars for the next five years. I’m not going to get on a soapbox about how useless or pointless these games are, since I do indulge in Mafia Wars, but the thing about [...]

A team from MIT has unjust unveiled a new design for aircraft that has increased fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and the ability to take off on shorter runways. NASA commissioned this MIT team and others to design the aircraft with the intent of implementing the changes. Now, we won’t see these planes for quite a [...]

I didn’t know that Europe was building wind farms in the water.  If you don’t know, wind farms are collections of modern windmills that generate electricity through wind power. I live in Illinois, and wind farms are becoming more prevalent in the rural areas of the state.  I guess people over in Europe are building [...]

I was born in 1977 so I obviously missed Star Wars’ initial theatrical release.  I was old enough to remember seeing the second movie in theaters, and I have been a fan of the series since then.  I dragged my family to the theater to see Return of the Jedi 6 times.  As a kid, some [...]

There was a new chair design introduced in Milan not too long ago from a Lebanese architect. It’s a regular chair but the seat has a layer of live grass. I remember being a kid and enjoying the feel of fresh green grass between my toes. I can also remember the harsh feeling of dead, [...]

The Library of Congress announced that it will be archiving all the tweets placed on the social network site since Twitter’s inception in March of 2006. According to the article by Dan Hope, there are 50 million tweets per day and the total number of tweets in the site’s four year history already numbers in [...]