Shai Agassi claims he has solved the electric-car problem. Now if he can just get the auto companies, a few national governments and millions of consumers to adopt his scheme. NYT Magazine: The Green Issue View full entry
Publishers are hoping that millions of page views on a blog will translate into booming sales on the bookstand. NYT View full entry
When a West German photographer set off on a trip to the East German island of Rügen just after the Wall fell in the spring of 1990, he captured a world that would soon disappear forever. Twenty years after the epochal event, Karlheinz Jardner looks back on his journey and the photos he... View full entry
An interactive website created by sociologist and photographer Camilo José Vergara, Invincible Cities presents "A Visual Encyclopedia of the American Ghetto". Site View full entry
In keeping with a centuries-old tradition, workmen completing an extensive renovation of the lieutenant-governor's residence in Halifax have placed several used shoes inside the unfinished walls of the 209-year-old Georgian mansion. metronews.ca View full entry
“Twitter reverses the notion of the group, instead of creating the group you want, you send it and the group self-assembles.” ....In Twitter we trust? nyt View full entry
This is all that remains of a car hit by a bomb in Iraq. Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller tells Jonathan Jones what happened when he took it on a tour of America.Guardian View full entry
Fancy a trip to Sicily? The 5th annual PICNIC workshop will explore the intersection of various design approaches and techniques, ranging from fashion design and architecture to contemporary art and literature. Registration is still open. May 5-10. The foundational element of the workshop is the... View full entry
In Southern California, a home builder is battling a softening real estate market by taking advantage of an abundant local resource: actors. The Centex company has hired four actors to play a family "living" in one of their model homes -- a performance called Homelife... According to the... View full entry
"I'm your neighborhood real estate agent, and I'm really, really sorry. What am I doing now? Lord knows, I live to Facebook, Twitter, tweet, blog, gather, LinkIn, YouTube, Gawk, Boing Boing, friend, Rain Actively, Digg, Xanga, Squidoo, Top Produce, and MySpace my way into the hearts of my buyers... View full entry
The English middle classes have always loved the idea of throwing high culture at the masses. From the mid 19th century onwards, all kinds of energetic social reformers and philanthropists have made earnest attempts to prise theatre, opera, ballet, art, museum collections and intellectual... View full entry
Apologies to residents of the Lower East Side; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and other hipster-centric neighborhoods. You are not as cool as you think, at least according to a new study that seeks to measure what it calls “the geography of buzz.” NYT View full entry
Hey Bostoners and Cambridgers...Come hear Kazys Varnelis and I get all worked up about "blogitecture: architecture on the internet", moderated by Mark Jarzombek. Tomorrow evening, April 7, Room 3-133 [@MIT], 6:30pm. (The HTC Forum theme this year is "outside", as in outside the traditional print... View full entry
For 22 years, the glorious spa town has been a World Heritage site. But now, thanks to a giant mall and 2,200 flats, it could be stripped of its status. By Jonathan Glancey. View full entry
Over the last decade Nick Cave has become known for making colorful, extravagant sculptures with this kind of double life: they can stand alone in galleries as visually compelling art objects, or they can be worn by dancers as vehicles for sound and movement. He calls them Soundsuits.NYT View full entry