Foursquare: approaching two million-user status
The disclosure came from the company’s co-founder and chief executive, Dennis Crowley, in a company blog.
The balance between the numbers the length of the hands, the clean layout all combine to make this watch face one of the all time classics.
Moving from the wrist to the bottom our chair this week is the Bertoia Chair.
Created by Harry Bertoia in 1950 as a result of an experiment that involved bending metal rods into practical art. It is available with a removable fully upholstered cover or with loose cushions and back pads available in a variety of fabrics, colour ways and fabric. Each piece carries the signature of Bertoia as a mark of authenticity.
Stunning, fun and practical.James Powderly aerospace engineer, working with NASA to put robotic space rovers on Mars also a graffiti artist. Watch this.
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London-based studio Hu2 Design collaborated with French Designer r.ferrer in order to create these original macbook reminders.
As well as protecting the shell from scratches, these typographic messages entice users only to charge their laptop when necessary, since an overcharged battery deteriorates faster than a properly used one, and also probably uses twice as much electricity. Via DesignYouTrust
And this weeks Chair obsession is the Lounge Chair by Oscar Niemeyer
Designed in 1907 by Niemeyer a Brazilian architect and furniture designer.
Creative agency Jess3 has developed a Firefox plugin that aims to black out all mentions of BP (British Petroleum) across the web. As one popular tweet reads, “Want BP to [blank] up your browser like they’ve [blank] up the Gulf? Install the Oil Spill Firefox plugin from @jess3.”The Black Oil Firefox plugin replaces all mentions (case insensitive) of BP and accompanying terms like BP oil, BP gas, BP worldwide, and so on, with blacked out letters and dripping oil drops.Images that contain meta data matching the terms are also blacked out.You can see what the plugin looks like when doing a Google search for “BP”
