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50 Most Influential Designers in America
Co.Design’s influence matrix tracks designers from the virtual (websites and information) to the physical (cars and even spaceships). Thinkers wield influence through writing and leadership, while makers exert it through their work. Infographic by Kristina Dimatteo
The Rules › Velominati
RULE 10:
It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, per Greg Henderson: “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”
To Tumble, or not to Tumble?
To tumble or not to tumble, that is the question. Well, it’s a question I hear often from friends and people in the tech world: “Do you use Tumblr?”
RECALIBRATING INFRASTRUCTURE
The blog of the Recalibrating Infrastructure Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Researching and documenting networked ecologies in the Los Angeles region for the Fall of 2010.
Robonaut
Robonaut 2 will join the International Space Station with the launch of STS 133 on about November 1, 2010.
A Home for the Future
Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus, a solar-powered home that won the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, provides a glimpse into future living. Take a tour through the home and listen to Joe Wheeler, one of three primary faculty members who worked on the project with more than 200 students, explain the home’s features and how it may change the way we live and use energy.
Quantum GIS
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.
Pedalr
From the site itself, “a better marketplace for people who love bikes”. Will be interesting to see what becomes of this.
20-minute neighborhoods
Fast Company interview with Portland mayor Sam Adams, on working to make every section of Portland a complete 20-minute neighborhood to strengthen the local economy.
north = uphill
People making travel plans may unwittingly heed a strange rule of thumb — southern routes rule. In a new experiment, volunteers chose paths that dipped south over routes of the same distance that arched northward, perhaps because northern routes intuitively seem uphill and thus more difficult, researchers suggest.
runkeeper.com
RunKeeper is an iPhone application that enables you to use the built-in GPS in your iPhone 3G to track all of your outdoor fitness activities, including duration, distance, pace, speed, elevation, calories burned, and path traveled on a map. You can store all of your historical activities on the RunKeeper website and share them with your friends!
