[The following is purely reckless speculation: Innocent until proven guilty]
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If there is such a thing as having a Twitter crush, Sarah Phillips was mine. On the surface, she’s clearly smokin’ hot, with a natural, care-free complexion. While prototypical girls are primping for days…
In response to overwhelming user requests, we’re getting ready to drop an iPad app. It is going to be rad.
Make sure you’re one of the first to see it by signing up for email notification. To get on the list head on over to our homepage (logged in users will need to logout) and look for the sign up button in the upper left corner.
song of the day - Older by Band of Horses (live acoustic)
The Science of Relationships site is a fun and informative way to learn a bit more about one of life’s greatest components: human relationships. Started to combat the wide array of misinformation being spread by opinion-based relationship “experts,” SoR uses scientific research to take a…
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Interview with Jorgen Bodum
DesignApplause, March 9, 2012
http://trap.it/kZ4bML - discovered on Trapit‘The Bachelor’ Addiction and Why It Must Stop (After Tonight)
by Lizzy Acker for KQED, March 12, 2012
I’m not proud of how deeply I’ve gotten involved…
First there were eight then there were three—Gary took the stage earlier today for round one of SXSW Interactive’s Accelerator in Austin, Texas. Trapit was nominated for the Innovative Web Technologies category and will now go on to the finalist round.
Round two commences tomorrow at 12:30PM Central (or 10:30AM for those of us on the west coast). Watch the action livestreaming here.
Image via flickr.
When folks refer to SXSW, they’re often only referring to the music portion of what is actually a massive, citywide music, film, and technology conference that takes over Austin, Texas for an entire week.
The week starts out with SXSW Interactive and SXSW film,…
New York in 1858. Image via Project Gutenburg, The Romance of a Great Store
Rowland Hussey Macy opened “R.H. Macy’s Dry Goods” on New York’s 6th Avenue in 1858. On his first day of business he sold about $12 bucks worth of “dry goods” – ready-made clothing and textiles. Back then, it was pretty straightforward: if you were in New York and you needed a shirt you went to Macy’s. If you needed oats for your horse, that wasn’t R.H. Macy’s business.
Today, Macy’s has about 800 stores in the US, another 300 eSpot ZoomShops that sell electronics. It has a parade. It spends billions of dollars on advertising to make sure that the “Macy’s” brand remains iconic. It’s worked out pretty well for the late R.H. Macy: last quarter, Macy’s sold about $92M worth of “dry goods” each day.
Trash and Vaudeville 1997. Image via Flaming Pablum
Take a brisk New York walk from Macy’s Herald Square flagship store to the East Village and you may stumble upon the store Trash and Vaudeville, a shrine to rock and roll fashion (it’s the store that allegedly put the Ramones into skinny jeans). Now if that shirt you’re looking for is vintage Kurt Cobain, you may find it in Macy’s, but not likely. Or maybe it’s a Slash hat you’re seeking. Point is, everybody knows Macy’s - and Macy’s will keep spending ad money to make sure it stays that way. Trash and Vaudeville? Not so much. Sure, you may have got lucky wandering through Manhattan, or maybe you have a friend who heard that T&V helped create Madonna’s Cleopatra-meets-Medusa Super Bowl look. In either case, you had to discover it. Because T&V, despite their really cool content, can’t compete with Macy’s for air time and traffic.
song of the day - Hold On Dear Brother by The Beach Boys
We’re pleased to announce a new edition to Trapit’s curation team. Let me introduce cat video lover, native Portlander, and night baker (seriously, she claims to love baking AFTER 10PM), Kelly Montgomery.
In addition to having traveled to a whopping 13 countries (especially…
Our resident health and science editor, skeptic, truth vigilante, and astrophysicist, Ethan Siegel recently made a guest appearance on the science radio show Skeptically Speaking.
This wasn’t Ethan’s first time on the show, he appeared in November to talk about neutrinos, but this…
