Anti-Theft Lunch Bags, by The.

Anti theft lunch bags, designed by The.

 

Bag with Sandwich

Zipper bags made of food-safe reusable and recyclable LDPE, they cost 8 dollars. Designed by Sherwood Forlee and Mihoko Ouchi ( .The) to keep sticky-fingered coworker or schoolyard bully away from your lunch.

The perfect crime

“Sometimes, marketing enables a pickpocket to steal a wallet–and be thanked for it.

Marketers are responsible for what we do, it’s not an activity without effects.

Last year, just one of the big fast food companies made more than $1,300,000,000 in profit (billion with a ‘b’). They’ve also paid their CEO nearly $200 million in salary in the last five years. Sometimes, a big profit is the sign that you’re doing something right, creating real value for people able to pay. Sometimes, though, it means you’re exploiting a weakness in the system.”

 

Read the whole article, in Seth Godin’s blog. Very worth reading.

Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster

“This year is the bicentennial of his birth, and while he never earned a secure living, was often sucked into alcoholic maelstroms, was unable to hold a job without incinerating his prospects and regularly lashed out at his literary contemporaries — while in life, in other words, he was a miserable conglomeration of self-justification, remorse, genius, fury and failure — as a corpse he has flourished mightily. (…)”

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Mas en For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For,
Poe en su bicentenario, a punto de acabar…

 

 
 

 

 

Unravelling the real 3D Mandelbrot

Mandelbrot Gateaux

“The original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has captured the public’s imagination for 30 years with its cascading patterns and hypnotically colourful detail. It’s known as a ‘fractal’ – a type of shape that yields (sometimes elaborate) detail forever, no matter how far you ‘zoom’ into it (…) What we have featured in this article is a potential 3D version of the same fractal…”

 

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