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The Tale of a Smarter City

It's really nice video

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Limex Games - Play Cargo Bridge

You know, it's smart enough but so funny game. I've been playing in it for 2 hours

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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity [TED]

It's really good speech. I think, Ken Robinson is right. What do you think about it?

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Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft - The Future of Microsoft, The Future of Technology (Entire Talk)

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World consumption. #thinkagain

Full definition: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/04/26051202.jpg What do you think about it?

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Gay Suicide: It Gets Better

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Time Travel Cheat Sheet #thinkagain

It's defenetly cool thing

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Evolution of Office Spaces Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Work

Evolution of Office Spaces Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Work

By Cliff Kuang Email 03.23.09

Since the dawn of the white-collar age, office designs have cycled through competing demands: openness versus privacy, interaction versus autonomy. Here's a brief history of how seating arrangements have reflected our changing attitudes toward work.

1Taylorism (ca. 1904)

American engineer Frederick Taylor was obsessed with efficiency and oversight and is credited as one of the first people to actually design an office space. Taylor crowded workers together in a completely open environment while bosses looked on from private offices, much like on a factory floor.

2 Bürolandschaft (ca. 1960)

The German "office landscape" brought the socialist values of 1950s Europe to the workplace: Management was no longer cosseted in executive suites. Local arrangements might vary by function—side-by-side workstations for clerks or pinwheel arrangements for designers, to make chatting easier—but the layout stayed undivided.

3 Action Office (1968)

Bürolandschaft inspired Herman Miller to create a product based on the new European workplace philosophy. Action was the first modular business furniture system, with low dividers and flexible work surfaces. It's still in production today and widely used. In fact, you probably know Action by its generic, more sinister name: cubicle.

4 Cube Farm (ca. 1980)

It's the cubicle concept taken to the extreme. As the ranks of middle managers swelled, a new class of employee was created: too important for a mere desk but too junior for a window seat. Facilities managers accommodated them in the cheapest way possible, with modular walls. The sea of cubicles was born.

Virtual Office (ca. 1994)

Ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day's LA headquarters was a Frank Gehry masterpiece. But the interior, dreamed up by the company's CEO, was a fiasco. The virtual office had no personal desks; you grabbed a laptop in the morning and scrambled to claim a seat. Productivity nose-dived, and the firm quickly became a laughingstock.

5 Networking (present)

During the past decade, furniture designers have tried to part the sea of cubicles and encourage sociability—without going nuts. Knoll, for example, created systems with movable, semi-enclosed pods and connected desks whose shape separates work areas in lieu of dividers. Most recently, Vitra unveiled furniture in which privacy is suggested if not realized. Its large tables have low dividers that cordon off personal space but won't guard personal calls.

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The mood of my week. [sound/mp3]

Mad World by Gary Jules  
(download)

It's kinda soundtrack of few my days in this week. What do you think
and feel about this soung? May you share it with me, please?

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PHD Comics: If TV Science was more like REAL Science

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