"A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo."
Mississippi Prom Canceled After Lesbian Date Request
"Giving softly-spoken consumers everywhere a better chance of getting themselves heard, the Talk-o-Meter is a chat-monitoring iPhone app designed to show conversation dominators the error of their overbearing ways. After a brief calibration period to identify the voices in a dialogue, the app recognises who is speaking and keeps track of each person's talk time. The results are displayed as red and blue bars indicating the balance. Speakers can then glance at the Talk-o-Meter as they converse, and—the designer hopes—make adjustments if they are monopolising the discussion."
Springwise newsletter | 3 March 2010
"According to a recently resurfaced study conducted by researchers at Georgia Tech, people’s relationships with their gadgets, in this case Roombas, can be downright emotional. As Popular Science reports: 30 committed users studied as part of the research effort, two-thirds had named their devices and half had assigned them an arbitrary gender. Others in the study were found to rearrange their homes to be more accommodating to the robots, while others pre-clean their homes before putting the machine to work and buy new rugs that don’t tie up the Roomba on its programmed march around the house. One subject even introduced his Roomba to his parents."
Why We Love Roombas: They’re Just Like Us - PSFK
"So, I was happy to see that Burgerville is now testing the coolest receipt ever. (Pictured at left.) They're from company called Nutricate (tip: if you have to put a pronunciation guide next to your name, you need a new name). And, as you can see, they provide highly accurate nutritional info for your meal."
The World's Biggest Signpost from adghost on Vimeo.
"Artist Wafaa Bilal will soon be getting a tattoo that contains 1 dot for every casualty associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom. The full-back tattoo will be applied during a 24 hour performance on March 8th in conjunction with a fundraiser aimed at collecting $1 per death towards scholarships for Americans and Iraqis who lost their parents in the war. Kyle McDonald designed the visualization for this remarkable tattoo, which contains more than 4,000 US soldiers in red ink, and more than 100,000 “invisible” civilians depicted in ultraviolet ink."
Wafaa Bilal’s Iraq Casualty Tattoos - Josh Spear, Trendspotting
