Oct 27

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: London’s Sound Taxi, Ai Weiwei’s Grass-Mud Horse Style, COMUNE’s last ride and more in our look at the web this week

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Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. Grass-Mud Horse Style In a remark on Chinese Web censorship artist Ai Weiwei mocked PSY’s ubiquitous Gangnam Style video with his own version, Grass-Mud Horse Style. Still online outside of China, the video shows Weiwei in handcuffs, which he says “should belong to law enforcement but in many…

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Oct 20

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Google’s data center, Unknown Pleasures, Steve Jobs in Hell and more in our weekly look at the web

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Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. Relax Shacks Just outside Boston, self-titled “carpenter, tinkerer and micro-architecturer” Derek Diedrickson builds DIY micro shelters mostly from materials found on the side of the road. Dubbed “Relax Shacks,” these transportable refuges cost less than $100 and can house the homeless or just serve as a comfy space…

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Oct 13

Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Philly’s new pizza museum, hands-free luggage, horrific pockets and more in our look at the web this week

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Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. Rain Room One spotlight, 100 square meters, a grid of water spigot panels and an array of cameras enable the profoundly rad experience that is Rain Room. Installed in Barbican’s Curve Gallery in London, the Rain Room uses 3D mapping of moving bodies to give visitors the experience…

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