This is totally off topic, but for all those people that have to access the internet on the go, Starbucks has announced that they are giving away free Wi-Fi with the purchase of a gift card. The minimum amount to put on the card is $5 and there has to be some activity on the card at least once a month, but for that you get free AT&T WiFi for at least 2 hours a day. Yesterday I was there and was on for 2.5 hours so who knows how closely regulated the times are. Whatever the case, I really hated paying $10 a day for T-Mobile. Just remember not to come to the Starbucks I am using and eat into the bandwidth.

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This is too cool. Meet the Telectroscope - a device that lets people in London and New York see each other in real time. Straight out of something from Jules Verne, this experimental installation is the work of Paul St. George who offers this story of the genesis of the Telectroscope:

Some years ago an artist by the name of Paul St George happened upon a packet of dusty papers in a trunk in his grandmother’s attic. On further inspection he discovered that they had been the property of his great-grandfather, an eccentric Victorian engineer, Alexander Stanhope St George.

Paul began to read through the papers and discovered a veritable treasure trove: diaries, diagrams, correspondence, scribbled calculations, and even one or two photographs. At first, Paul felt a detached interest in this first hand account of social and cultural history. But as he read on, he became more and more absorbed, until, with a sudden thrill, he realised that these papers could have a greater significance than was at first apparent.

The notebooks were full of intricate drawings and passages of writing describing a strange machine. This device looked like an enormous telescope with a strange bee-hive shaped cowl at one end containing a complex configuration of mirrors and lenses. Alexander seemed to be suggesting that this invention, which he called a Telectroscope, would act as a visual amplifier, allowing people to see through a tunnel of immense length… a tunnel, the drawings implied, stretching from one side of the world to the other.

If you happen to be in NYC or London soon, you can check out the kooky invention here:

The Telectroscope is situated at Fulton Ferry Landing near Brooklyn Bridge. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY – 11201
Subway: Lines A and C to High Street or F to York Street

In London, the Telectroscope is situated on the south side of the river near Tower Bridge. More London Riverside, London SE1 2DB

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LTD Magazine speaks directly to the influential tastemaker market segment with an entirely unique approach to distribution and content. Through revealing interviews with progressive talents, pieces on emerging trends and cultures, and presentations of products in their raw form, we speak to the influencers in their own language.

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So rad…

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Threadless is, if you haven’t heard already, a concept from Chicago that let’s you submit your tee shirt design, which, if selected, is printed and sold to the thousands of people who frequent the site. Chuck Anderson, of NoPattern, recently submitted a post on his blog tipping his hat to the crew from Threadless for making the cover of INC Magazine. Here is what he has to say:

Where do I personally even begin when it comes to Threadless? Before I started NoPattern as my full-time thing in 2004 I was packing t-shirts at their Chicago office and trying to learn as much as I could from a small group of dudes who I thought were doing some awesome things. Did I imagine they’d be as explosively successful as they are now in such a short amount of time? Not really, not this fast…but it certainly does not surprise me and I feel they completely deserve every bit of press, success, and praise they get. I’ll keep this short and to the point but I just really want to commend Threadless, specifically Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, on what I think is their coolest piece of press to date. The cover of Inc. Magazine for June 2008. Super happy for these guys having watched them grow from a small office with shirts wedged onto a few shelves in a corner to a giant playground of an office with a warehouse staffed with people packing thousands of shirts a day. Nice headline on the cover too, sheesh! “The Most Innovative Small Company in America.” Again, congrats guys…Truly one of the most deserving and forward-thinking companies around. See the cover in the link below.

Via The Brilliance.

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