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Hello,

by: Sebastian Campion

Although, the website hellomrpresident.com looks to be deserted, it still contains bits of documentation of the interactive laser hack performed at the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland in 2001.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 26 February, 2005 - 11:42
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Activist Games for Kids

by: Sebastian Campion

As a way of engaging a younger audience in its activities, Greenpeace is devoting a section of its site to educational and politically loaded games.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 25 February, 2005 - 20:53
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Hubbert's Peak Is Here

by: Joel Makower

One of the great debates of the Age of Energy Uncertainty has to do with something called Hubbert's Peak. Promulgated by Shell Oil geologist M. King Hubbert in the mid 1950s, it refers to the highest point on the curve of oil production -- the point when the known sources of available oil max out and start to decline.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 24 February, 2005 - 12:18
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Love/Hate brand scores

Just for fun, I started typing in "I hate (brand)" in Google to see what comes up. I then got curious about the findings for "I love (brand)." Here's the love/hate score for a random selection of brands.

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Comments (1)Posted on on 16 February, 2005 - 19:27
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Reflective Building

by: Sebastian Campion

Galleria Hall is a Department Store in Seoul which in September 2004 had a façade-lift done by Dutch architects UN-Studio.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 15 February, 2005 - 12:55
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Frequency 1550: mobile educational game

by: Sebastian Campion

In collaboration with a local school, The Waag Society in Amsterdam has developed a concept for a 'mobile learning game'.

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The game is designed for students in the age of 11-12 and employ mobile phones and GPS-technology to examine whether it's possible to provide an educational location-based experience.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 9 February, 2005 - 14:53
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(in)Visible Food

by: Sebastian Campion

The VisibleFood project is a website and database created to give researchers as well as potential consumers an overview of political and environmental issues related to certain food products.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 7 February, 2005 - 20:44
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Nano Concerto

by: Sebastian Campion

The Dark Side of The Cell is an audio-visual event staged by media artist Anne Niemetz and nano-scientist Andrew Pelling that utilizes a recent discovery within nano-biotechnology: cellular sounds.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 7 February, 2005 - 13:15
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