Dutch designer Greetje van Tiem (Graduate Design Academy Eindhoven) has an intriguing idea.
Turning old newspapers into yarn that can be woven into carpets, curtains and upholstery. A great example of maximising value!
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Now is your chance! If you want to live the “O.C” lifestyle but don’t have the O.C. bucks, here’s your chance.
Despite its glamorous reputation as the place where great wealth meets great tans, Orange County, California, is ground zero for the housing bust.
Today there are more than 3.300 foreclosures in the area which makes it a great bargain, especially for Europeans with the weak US dollar. BusinessWeek listed the most expensive foreclosed properties coming to auction here. For a detailed report on The Other Orange Country you can follow this link.
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Dennis Bergkamp will return to Ajax. The former pro has been asked by Marco van Basten to do a traineeship with the club. “I think that Dennis can make players better”, Van Basten said. Read more.
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Oslo (Norway) is the priciest city in the world to live in according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. In its latest twice-yearly index of over 130 cities, in which 160 items are assessed, Norway’s capital has been the costliest since 2005, when it toppled Tokyo from the top spot.
European cities dominate the list, reflecting the weakness of the dollar. New York is still the most expensive city outside of Europe or Asia, but it has slipped from 28th to 39th in a year. Relocating to Latin America or India would get you a lot more for your Euro.
The highlights of the ranking can be found here. More on the methodological approach of the conducted survey can be found here.
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Source: Fast Company
Every working day Fast Company publishes a quote from an authoritative figure. Subsequently, more on the Fast Company front, in their latest issue they have published an insightful article on Google which moves far behind the doors of the leading internet giant. The article comes with an even more insightful and very detailed slideshow on the Googleplex. What a lovely place to work!
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“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reasons to hope.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
(found on the back of a Daimler Sustainability report)
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2007 has been an eventful year for me with lots of “grand” turning points in my life! Some of the highlights are that I graduated for my Master’s which implies that I am not a student any more after many incredible years! Started with my first job and had wonderful encounters during my holiday in South-America! In addition my family and friends are by and large well and happy! What more can I wish right?
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I wish you a kick-ass’ingly amazing, loving, healthy and inspiring 2008. May your dreams come true in the new year, may the world be a little bit better at the end of 2008, may you have lots of joy and happiness in your life.
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” (Aesop)
“There are two ways to lead your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Einstein)
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The Dutchies can expect three challenging football matches next summer during Euro 2008 held in Austria and Switzerland! Today, faith has drawn Holland together with World Champion Italy, World Champion runner-up France and Romania (who ended ahead of Holland in the qualification group) in the same group. At least “we” know what to expect with these opponents.
Holland boss Marco Van Basten added: “That really is a hard one. The Romanians posed us so many problems in the qualifiers, and before that we will have Italy and France, but at least we know what we are up against.”
The good thing about this drawn up is that we can expect three exciting matches in which Holland don’t has the make the game itself. Which is a good thing since there will be lots of space to ball around for us as well. Let the football craziness begin!
The full Groups are:
Group A Group B
Switzerland Austria
Czech Republic Croatia
Portugal Germany
Turkey Poland
Group C Group D
Holland Greece
Italy Sweden
Romania Spain
France Russia
- What the next big thing will be?
- What I was doing exactly a year ago?
- What will happen if China stumbles? Alright, Daniel Altman was so kind to answer my question here?
- Why “innocent drinks” are so little and overpriced but so damn tasty?
- Why there is still no usage of cameras and other technologies in football matches to rectify the referee decision?
- Why greater flexibility is advised for logos and branding? ooh wait Wolff Olins comes with a solution here and here! Love it!
- Why Wordpress doesn’t let me wrap text around an image easily?
- Why I didn’t come up with the idea for Facebook?
- On the Facebook note, would it be better for a company/charity to have a profile on Facebook, or a group? I think my preference now goes out to a profile. Makes it easier to follow what they do, since it’ll show up on the feeds on my Facebook homepage. I still haven’t figured out how (if) to get the changes on my groups on my RSS feeds.
- Why brand management or advertisement agencies always have the coolest and most innovate website designs? Please check out the new Wolff Olins site. Lovely!
- How International Herald Tribune (IHT) can always pull it off to be higher ahead of the curve with respect to usability of its webpage? I was quite some time I visited the webpage but I think the current layout is quite 2.0! E.g. you can listen to each news article, write a comment, and even translate the text. Furthermore, the layout is very comfortable, dynamic, and interactive, and still clean!
- How cool this new project (the World Beach Project) at the V&A is.
- How interesting it is that Ebay is copying Kiva’s idea at their new website Microplace (source: this article in Businessweek).
- Where my favourite (blue) t-shirt has gone?
- Where I will work and live in three and ten years from now? Asia? Europe?
- Where I will go for my next holiday? USA, Canada, Brazil?
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