I'm a sucker for French girl rock bands. I learned about the Plastiscines after their appearance on Gossip Girl tonight.
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Calling all bapesters: A Bathing Ape makes wearable hip-hop gear by Japanese designers
What's a bapester? It's a fan of the clothing line A Bathing Ape, founded in 1993 by Tomoaki "Nigo" Nagao.
In the states, it's evolved into a premium streetwear brand that has garnered fans like Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West. Here's Kanye rocking an attention-getting outfit in a recent Bathing Ape Catalog.
Infographic: The average consumer spends $50k/year. Where does it all go?
I think it's common that people feel an affinity for starting businesses in the consumer sector. It's relevant to one's daily life. There's broad appeal. There's easy understanding of the needs, because we ourselves are consumers too.
Given that, this turns out to be a very valuable piece of data. If you want to make consumer services of any sort, you need to know how the pie is being sliced.
Dollar ReDe$ign: Michael Tyznik
“Here are the main ideas in this design: Money and the color green are inextricably intertwined in American culture. I think it'd be a mistake to remove green as the primary color. Instead, each bill has a brightly-colored holographic strip embedded into it which contains the denomination. The width of this strip also changes with the denomination. This introduces an element which makes each bill extremely easy to identify. There is also braille denoting the bills' denomination on the holographic strip.
The idea of presidents being on money is also intrinsic in American money, and I don't think that should change. One thing I definitely don't want is the government deciding what cultural figures or movements are the most important or "American." Instead, I think the most important politicians should be on money. For the same reason, I put government institutions on the bills, representing each of the branches of government. In addition, I think one of the most important things about America is our Bill of Rights. I think it is probably the most important information any citizen can have, and for that reason, it is printed on the back of the bills. It is sometimes thought the amendments are listed in order of importance, so it makes sense to have the first ones on the most common bills and the last ones on the less common bills. Lastly, I changed the denominations of the bills. I think we need to get rid of the penny, because they've gotten to the point that they're more expensive to produce than they're worth. Instead, the coins would be 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, and $2. The coins can keep their current design, and the $2 would be slightly thicker and larger than the $1, with a shape similar to the UK 50p coin. I've added a $200 bill because the $500 is entirely impractical, but the 200 € banknote is in general circulation and I think a $200 could be useful.”
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These designs are NOT legal tender.
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Day 8,045: Why Windows 7 is not the answer
I downloaded the Windows 7 Release Candidate this morning. When I plugged in my mouse, I was presented with this dialog box. I'd like to say a few words about how this epitomizes the Windows predicament.
First of all, this dialog box is totally useless. There is no good reason why Windows should not download "realistic" icons or the best driver software for my mouse. But it forces me to make a choice while totally locking the rest of my computer. But that is only the beginning. The question itself is impossible to parse and understand without spending several seconds considering the bizarre combination of seemingly random choices.
I can download driver software and realistic icons automatically, which is recommended. Great. Or I can "not" download driver software and realistic icons automatically, but "always install the best driver from Windows Update" -- which I assume involves downloading the software automatically -- and "replace generic device icons with enhanced icons." What is the difference between a generic device icon, an enhanced icon and a realistic icon, and why do I have to choose one?
I can also "not" download driver software and realistic icons automatically, but -- if I don't have a driver on my computer already -- automatically download the driver software. That selection essentially means "install the worst driver software possible -- either the outdated one on my computer, or if it doesn't exist -- and only if it doesn't exist -- download and install the better one online automatically."
Finally, I can choose to always install the worst driver possible or no driver at all. But I can still have realistic icons. Or not.
This is Release Candidate Software. I do not know what to say.
Interesting DNS hack to get free internet from any for-pay airport / wifi hotspot
The Idea is to tunnel all outgoing traffic through DNS. Yes, you heard right, through DNS, the Domain Name System, used to translate human-readable hostnames to numerical IP addresses and vice versa.
via dnstunnel.de
Pretty interesting/novel way... Unix admin skills required, but it's probably better that way.
Luckily I don't ever have to worry about this anymore -- I pretty much just use my Sprint 3G USB modem when I'm out and about.
Scalable vs. Non-Scalable Careers
Professions where you are paid by the hour are not scalable. A prostitute who charges $100 an hour only has 24 hours in a day. At some point, she will hit a ceiling on her earnings. Similarly, dentists, lawyers, contractors, bakers, and consultants can see only so many clients at a time.
By contrast, scalable professions allow you to make more money without an equivalent increase in labor / time. An author writes a book one time and his effort is the (basically) the same whether he sells 500 or 500,000 copies. A Hollywood actress need not show up at every screening of her movie to make money off it.
via ben.casnocha.com
This is a simple but remarkably important point.
