If you thought you were frustrated trying to teach Grandma to surf the web, imagine the kids who had to repeat the directions of how to dial the phone, much less hear endless complaints about fingers getting stuck in the rotary dialer. “Busy signal?! What’s a busy signal?” Ah, the good old days. Wait, how …

Talk about being a black sheep. If you want your kid to be different from all the others, consider giving him or her this rocking sheep and rocking lamb, instead of the traditional rocking horse. The idea, according to Craft Collection, is not only create a new toy but to also design one that will …

In an effort to rejuvenate struggling local economies and empower small business to compete with big business, political figures and organizations have begun to popularize “buy local” movements. The goal of “buy local” campaigns is to build a healthy feedback loop wherein the community buys from local merchants who then reinvest in the community via …

Full story at Sheldon Comics via Graph Jam. Just because it’s funny.

This feature is only available for its Japan based users, however it could be a feature coming to every single one of the social networking giant’s 600 million plus profiles. According to comments, this question is culturally common in Japan as asking someone their astrological sign in the United States. There are pros and cons …

In honor of World Oceans Day this week, National Geographic’s Newswatch blog features Paul McCartney’s previously unreleased single, “Blue Sway,” in a music video by award-winning surf filmmaker Jack McCoy. Zipping along on a high-powered underwater scooter rigged with an HD camera that can tilt up and down and spin 360 degrees, McCoy makes you …

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After Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted over the weekend, the resulting ash cloud produced violent lightning storms as never before seen. Visit the Chile Volcano Plume Gallery for additional photos. More exciting content at National Geographic. Photograph by Francisco Negroni, Agenci Uno/European Pressphoto Agency

Graphic design student Joseph Egan brings noggin-scratching anamorphic typography to London’s Chelsea College of Art and Design. Our work encourages the viewer to walk into and around typography, an immersive experience considering that their usual relationship with type would normally be realised on a two dimensional surface be it printed or computerised. Being able to …

Climbing comes with some hefty risks attached, but when you’re determined to scale formations in the middle of a desert complete with bandits, it’s a camel of a different color. Mark Synnot, who already lists the Arctic and Central Asia on his resume, wasn’t daunted by the challenge and enlisted fellow climbers Briton James Pearson, …

Chances are, you won’t notice a thing wrong with the Internet tomorrow, but on the off chance something goes wrong, here’s the skinny on what’s going down. Once upon a time, in the dark ages of technology (1977), the Internet protocol addresses (IPs) were set to a standard length of 32-digit binary numbers, which provided …

We’ve been talking about the new workstyle and how work is evolving now for several months including laying out the ten characteristics that define it and four reasons why it’s mobile.  We’ve gotten so much great feedback and interest on the topic that we decided to create an infographic that provides a snapshot of what the new workstyle is all about …