paper karma

get this app. via fast company

vectoraster

chad showed me an awesome program for building custom halftones, perfect for large scale environment application. it's $25 and totally worth it.

colbert pays tribute to steve jobs

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congestion tax

i saw a commercial for this on PBS the other day (nerd alert), did some google research and think it's pretty amazing. stockholm (also london, oslo and singapore) introduced a trial congestion tax to reduce the amount of cars on the roads and paired with IBM to make it technologically seamless. "The goal was not only to reduce congestion, but encourage ancillary benefits, such as improving public transportation and alleviating environmental damage." in the six month trial period, traffic moved down nearly 25%, 40,000 more people ride on public transportation everyday and greenhouse gases dropped 40% in the inner-city. the tax was reinstated by swedish law in july 2007.

your brain on computers

a good read. we've been trying to implement "no iphone" dinners. i love the tiny details that are added into ny times articles. via swissmiss

viet on the ipad

my old creative director is one of the smartest people i know, i miss him a lot. he just wrote an interesting piece on creative use of the ipad.

sorel

love the clean, modern site design for sorel. anyone know who was the mastermind? the 360 view option is really great and when you order you can select to have your package sent in a reused box to cut down on waste. brilliant.

goollery

oh the hours to spend browsing

new app

looks enticing. i may have to investigate. via qbn