We’ve previously covered Swap.com, the collaborative consumption service that allows you to share your unwanted books, video games, movies and CD’s with folks who want them. The site has facilitated over 1. Read more »
The city where you really want to live—that ideal place you wish your own town would become—is not some plan shining on an urban designer’s computer screen. Read more »
An eclectic soundtrack resonates through the space while an LED display embedded into a Hacked Electric Guitar blinks from the desk opposite. "Welcome to Open Design City", it reads. Read more »
Hannah Dobbz, a writer, filmmaker and activist, has been living in squats on and off for years. She's based in Pittsburgh, where there are plenty of empty buildings and just as many people ready to fill them. Read more »
Fourteen years ago today, I attended my first San Francisco Giants game at Candlestick Park. They had been my favorite team since birth, but it wasn't until my family moved to California that I got a chance to see them play at home. Read more »
Gabriel Levinson, the man behind the Book Bike, is getting ready for another summer of distributing books to Chicagoans young and old at parks and other public venues around the city. Read more »
It’s a scenario straight out a sci-fi B-movie: giant self-organized robotic swarms bearing Internet access, setting up pop-up wi-fi networks during a natural disaster. Read more »
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