Zeitgeist Luke's hand
When Star Wars stuff starts happening for real, it means that you’re kinda old.
Zeitgeist Welcome to Microsoft
Absolutely hilarious yet totally freaky translation from PR-speak to English of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s company-wide memo regarding the Microsoft takeover bid. Gruber-style.
Zeitgeist Shared space
One incredibly smart traffic-management philosophy: reclaim the common sense and courtesy. Tear down the street curbs and get rid of the signs. Make people drive slower. Via DO.
Zeitgeist Fatmerica
Erwin Wurm’s work: fat Porsche, fat houses, fat David. Via OffCenter.
Zeitgeist Oops
Worst IT fuckups of all time. Via Coudal.
Zeitgeist Ex-glamour
The discreet charm of the old catalogues. Someday we’ll be just as outmoded. Via DO.
Zeitgeist Digital vs. analog audio
Analog sounds fat and warm while digital zings cold and crappy, right?
Zeitgeist Balltopia
Giant balls made men feel good about themselves—a dazzling history.
Zeitgeist Meter?
Good magazine: “There are only three countries that do not use the metric system: Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States.”
Zeitgeist Smexting
“A wide-reaching ban on smoking in enclosed places just went into effect on July 1st in the UK, and in the two weeks following, carrier Orange reported that 7.5 million more messages were sent on its network than in the two-week period the month prior.” It has a name — smexting.
Zeitgeist Ignoramus
Hystorical median temperature in January for Bucharest is 1°C during the day. This January we currently have temperatures over 10°C, occasionally reaching 16°C. However, in the USA people complained about Al Gore’s global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, claiming it does not present an opposing view of global warming, such as creationism and the Bible.
Zeitgeist 2006 in Ideas
The New York Times Magazine looks back on the passing year from a distinctive vantage point: that of ideas. 74 of them, from good to bad, from serious to silly in The 6th Annual Year in Ideas. [via Kottke]