Parking tickets just got a little friendlier in Lexington, Kentucky.
Lexington, Kentucky may have figured out the impossible: how to make someone feel good about getting a parking ticket. For five weeks over the holidays, the city is letting anyone with a ticket pay it off by donating food to a local food bank.
You still have time to rethink your holiday gift plans.
If you’re trying to buy happiness, science has some clear advice: it’s better to spend money on an experience rather than the latest iPhone. New research suggests the same is true for gifts. If the goal is to make the recipient happy, you’ll have better luck with an experience. So why do most presents fit in boxes?
Hold video calls, access your files, provide tech support, and more.
Unless you know something we don’t, it’ll probably be a while before you’re able to clone yourself. While you’re waiting, here are a handful of apps you can use to make the most of only being able to physically be in one place at a time.
For people sleeping rough on the streets, the suit can offer some extra protection. And if you’re going to be outside, you might be able to get one, too.
The Sheltersuit is a home that you wear. Designed in the Netherlands for use by homeless people, the suit is a water-resistant, insulated jacket and sleeping bag, which zip together to keep the wearer warm and dry when they sleep on the street.
For the guy who turned Jorge Luis Borges’s “Library of Babel” into a web app, this isn’t an idle question.
Somewhere in the universe, there is a shelf of neatly organized books with titles made of nonsense. One of these books contains 410 pages of uncapitalized English words strung together in no intelligible order. On page 26 of this particular book, about halfway down, bookended between “holons” and “linkman“, is a 26-word couplet that my 4-year-old daughter will attempt to recite in her preschool’s Christmas pageant. Somewhere else, on a different shelf, is another book: this one contains a precise transcription, down to the syllable, of how my daughter will adorably mangle those 26 words onstage when her cue arrives.
A fair comparison of how movies have fared financially must include an inflation adjustment, which yields quite a few surprises.
This weekend, the newest Star Wars movie will start playing in cinemas throughout the world. Pundits in places like Forbes and the International Business Times are already predicting it will be the “biggest movie of all time.”
And let the word nerds do the word nerding. Here are practical tips for both writers and designers
Words shape design. Real words, not lorem ipsem, should form the ground-up basis for product design. This thought has been paraphrased on this site multiple times, by numerous contributors. Increasingly, the design community seemingly takes this truth to heart and has heartily paid lip service to the importance of “content” (words, the copy). I’ve read several articles written by designers who give sound advice on how to write good UI copy. Many of these pieces, like John Zeratsky’s piece on good interface writing, provide insightful tips on how to write better product copy.
MemNet is a neural network run by MIT that can accurately predict how memorable an image is to humans.
Not sure why some photographs just brand themselves deep into your memory, while others make no impact whatsoever? With the help of a new neural network that learns to think like humans, researchers at MIT hope to figure out what makes the best photographs so memorable. The results could not only help up your Instagram likes, they could help graphic designers apply science to their work to make it more memorable.
For architect Gunny Harboe, preserving Taliesin West is about restoring Wright’s intent.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s living laboratory in the Arizona desert, Taliesin West is one of the most revered architectural projects of the 20th century. Nearly 80 years old and in continuous use since its construction in 1937, the complex is certainly showing its age. To restore the building to its former luster, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation hired Harboe Architects to forge a preservation strategy.
PowerMoves, a New Orleans-based group that seeks to foster diversity in tech, is expanding to Miami with help from the Knight Foundation.
Last week, the Knight Foundation gifted $1.2 million to Code2040, an organization committed to placing black and Latino students at top tech companies. The nonprofit group is now investing the same amount in PowerMoves, an initiative started in New Orleans with a similar mission to support entrepreneurs of color. The new funding will help PowerMoves raise its profile with another location in Miami, which already has a base of emerging entrepreneurs.
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