We have a soft-spot for large civic projects that provide city dwellers places to loiter, ahem, congregate. Places that make the sometimes-grinding, cramped nature of city life totally worthwhile. Places like Chicago’s Millenium Park–free to use, feature frequent events and.
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Books are great. They are instigators of imagination, chroniclers of the ages, companions in meditation and erudition. They are also some of the clumsiest, heaviest, most space-intensive objects most of us carry. When this site first started, we presented what.
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For those of us who work from home, the need to get out of the house is essential to maintain productivity and sanity. And while co-working sites are great, they often cost in excess of $300/month–pretty steep for people who.
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As 2013 draws to a close, we wanted to take a trip down memory lane (propelled by Google Analytics) to see what you thought was interesting in the last year. The conclusion: many different things. You wanted to edit your.
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Forget museums and tourist sites, when trying to get local flavor while traveling, few things beat eating local cuisine. While restaurants are fine, they can be expensive, hit-or-miss in terms of quality and can lack the intimacy and authenticity of.
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To borrow a too-often-heard buzzword, the sharing economy is disruptive. Everyday citizens are increasingly able to earn significant income streams from their goods and properties, offering these things to the public at a fraction of market rate. One of the.
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If you use cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, you know how convenient it is to access your files from any computer or device. But what about non-data stuff? What if there was a way we could magically store.
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Cities like New York and San Francisco are incomparable incubators for culture, facilitators of connection and global villages that hold the promise of sustainably supporting large populations. But these cities are also becoming prohibitively expensive for the very people who.
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Last week, Google Ventures invested $258M in the car service Uber raising the company’s value to $3.5B. If you don’t know Uber, you probably will soon. While the company’s bread and butter is an app that allows on-demand black car reservations.
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If you thought the sharing economy was a passing fad or something exclusively for Ralph Nader voters*, think again. A new organization called Peers.org is trying to make sharing mainstream. It serves as both a member network for some of.
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