The home goods mogul said she regrets not buying Kmart before a deal with the discount chain went sour
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Brooks Brothers will open a store in Baltimore’s Harbor East neighborhood early next year.
The iconic retailer will move into the former City Sports spot, a more than 5,000-square-foot space at 809 Aliceanna Street, Harbor East management Group and Brooks Brothers Group Inc. said Tuesday.
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Exchange Your Skills For Free Services With A Different Kind Of Bank: A Time Bank
A new sharing economy app actually involves sharing.
Instead of paying for a service—whether you need an accountant or carpenter or Spanish lessons—imagine you pay with something else: your own time. Each hour you give your skills to someone else, you earn an hour you can spend with someone else.
These Mechanical Cat Legs March Us Toward The Robopocalypse
When the robots come, what horrifying form will they take?
In order to better understand cats, researchers at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan built robot cat legs. The result of their labors is documented in this video, which shows the terrifying prospect of disembodied feline legs rendered in metal, leaping to 1.3 times their own height.
Spy A Trove Of Whimsical Paper Planes Found On NYC Streets
Artist Harry Smith’s collection is plane genius.
Folding a paper airplane is a rite of passage for many kids. With a few strategic creases, anything from a page ripped out of a magazine to piece of card stock could become airborne. While they’re never going to be a marvels of aviation design, paper planes are clever little case studies about problem-solving: How do you tweak the shape to make the damn thing soar?
Gaze Upon The Slobbery Faces Of 91 Dogs From “Lick” Photographer Ty Foster
Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy??
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who love a big, slobbery dog face, and human monsters. If you’re the former kind, you will want to immediately check out the photographs of Ty Foster, whose book Lick captures a number of furry pups in the middle of sticking their tongues out.
A Stunning Tesla Tribute, Skating The L.A. Drought: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week
James Franco goes the full Kravitz with Guitar Hero Live, Extra Gum gets romantic, and Bonds Australia gets ballsy.
In honor of this week’s top picks in brand creativity, we plan to spend the weekend playing video games and skateboarding while chewing gum, not wasting water, and treating our genitals like royalty. Kravitz it up, good people.
Cartoonist Kate Beaton On Staying Creative, Respecting Your Audience, And Poop Jokes
The Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist is back with a new collection of comics, and it’s every bit as weird and hilarious as her first.
Kate Beaton is lost.
Steve Jobs, The Movie: 11 Things That Aren’t True About The Apple Cofounder
Not everything in Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s biopic about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is true to life.
Steve Jobs, the new movie from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle, opens widely today. Its energetic, crackling direction showcases the kind of whiplash dialogue that Sorkin is famous for. Film critics have already started weighing in, with mostly positive reviews. Theatergoers will get their chance to watch the film today. The one thing they won’t get is a chance to see a movie that’s actually about Steve Jobs.
This Trippy Credenza Is An Optical Illusion For Your Living Room
How deep is it? You can only tell from the side.
Many shelves aren’t deep enough. These shelves are both deeper and shallower than they look, thanks to a clever optical illusion that gives each nook its own separate, misleading depth.
