Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.

Awesome.

This is an archaic Italian word for being able to do your craft without a lot of visible effort. It’s a combination of elan and grace and class, sort of the opposite of loud grunts while you play tennis or a lot of whining and fuss when you help out a customer.

Many people are unable to put their finger on it, but this is a magnetic trait for many of us. We want our lawyer, dentist and waiter to demonstrate sprezzatura, but of course, not particularly try to. This is one of the secrets of Danny Meyer’s top-rated restaurants in New York. It doesn’t have to be flashy, it doesn’t even have to be the very best there ever was, but sprezzatura is enough to get us to return. As long as this light-footedness is scarce, it will remain valuable.

— Seth Godin

Viestikapula.org is a specialised webzine about the effects of age and generation in the Finnish business and social context.

We helped the Viestikapula team out with the conception and design of the website.

Again, we are packing skiing gear and other necessities for a winter holiday trip to Northern Finland. Our basecamp will be a lovely log cabin located very far from the nearest Internet access point.

I can hardly wait.

Alex Giron put together a design quotes display system that can be used as a screensaver.

We designed a new website for Noomus Inc. and developed it on top of WordPress as a CMS solution.

Solar by flight404.

Made with Processing. Audio by Goldfrapp (“Lovely Head” off her first album).

• It’s a site by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.
• It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today.
• It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us.
• It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list.
• It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption.
• It’s about how less is the answer.

It’s an eye opener.

Sometimes a little push is needed. Start your day by watching Al Pacino’s great speech in Any Given Sunday.

(via ArcticStartup)

“People two, three or four years apart are having completely different experiences with technology,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “College students scratch their heads at what their high school siblings are doing, and they scratch their heads at their younger siblings. It has sped up generational differences.”
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Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e-mail frequently. The iGeneration — conceivably their younger siblings — spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks. Dr. Rosen said that the newest generations, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and won’t have the patience for anything less.