Check out this great idea over at Aherk.com that is being beta tested at the moment. (Beta testing comes after alpha testing and is basically a form of external user testing, so don’t forget to give them feedback!)
For those of you who need help from your friends to stay focussed on your goals, this could be just the thing! Check it out. (Text and images below from Aherk.com)
Aherk! helps you achieve your goals by putting some pressure on you.
Aherk! is a goal-oriented self-blackmailing service in three easy steps:
Step 1: Define a goal.
Tell us what you want to achieve and set a deadline.
Step 2: Put your ass on the line.
Upload a compromising picture that will be posted to Facebook in case you fail to achieve your goal.
Step 3: Your friends decide.
After your deadline expires, your Facebook friends will tell us if you achieved your goal or not.
Tee hee, simple!
Yes! Believe it or not people ARE starting to think outside the box or in this case inside it!
After a few single stores across the world used shipping containers, the idea then morphed and moved to London with the opening of Boxpark Shoreditch, London’s first pop-up shopping mall made completely from shipping containers.
Boxpark Shoreditch - Image Ravi Sidhu
It then appeared as a brilliant idea to help a city move forward after the Christchurch earthquake as part of the City Mall Re:START project, with 27 stores in brightly coloured boxes.
Cashel Mall - Image NZ Raw
Cashel Mall - Image NZ Raw
Not only are these type of malls cheaper to put together, they can also utilise thin and strangely shaped pieces of land. In the case of Christchurch, it meant that businesses and the city could move towards getting “back to normal” without waiting for lengthy construction. They also get increased traffic from tourists curious to see how it’s all done.
Architectural firm LOT-EK in the US is now also putting plans together for a 9 story shipping container mall on the corner of 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, New York!
Artists impression of the proposed LOT-EK Shipping Container Mall NYC
We’ve all seen it happen, the kids get a present and they’re more interested in the box it came in!
The smart thinkers over at boxplayforkids.com have come up with an ingenious way to utilise household recycling like cereal boxes and egg cartons, by turning them into everything from a choo-choo-train to a turtle!
All of the stickers are eco-friendly, 100% recycled so it’s not only fun for the kids, it’s good for the planet too.
We have all done it. Mobile phones and our attachment to them, have dramatically changed what we see as acceptable behaviour in social situations and the attention we pay to our friends and family when they’re right in front of us. Check out this fantastic idea : The Phone Stack.
As you arrive, each person places their phone face down in the center of the table. A stack looks great! As the meal goes on, the phones will ring and buzz but you have to resist the urge to pick them up.
The first person to cave in to a beep or a buzz from their phone picks up the bill for the whole table!
A 20 yr old from California, Stephanie, is getting the credit.
Do you dare give it a try?
please can I have one?
Yayoi Kusama, artist,created a totally white room for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, set up like a domestic environment then gave kids a bunch of stickers and let them loose.
Called The Obliteration Room, you can see how it got it’s name. What a delight for the eyes. It amazes me that it looks so well considered but it is simply utter chaos! I guess that’s due to the fact that all the stickers were round…. What do you think?
Images courtesy Queensland Art Gallery, photographer Mark Sherwood, Stuart Addelsee andheybubbles.
It receives emails, it makes calls, it has apps, you can listen to music.
Oh, and it tells the time.www.imwatch.it
W.A.N.T!
Are you a quick learning, tech savvy, organised, helpful and friendly person with a wide range of skills and a keen desire to add to your skill set? Perhaps you are a returning-to-work parent or uni student needing some business experience?
You may be the perfect support person / office assistant I need to rescue me!
for example, this blog post is cutting off half of the article – so you will have to go over to http://fivehive.com/2011/11/14/woman-overboard-job-posting/ to finish reading it.
I noticed this little option when checking out of the GoDaddy site today:
An offer to round up my purchase to the nearest dollar and www.godaddy.com will match it and donate that to the charity of my choice.
Clever!
