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April 16, 2015
Welcome To The Slow Traffic Movement
With driverless cars, the slow lane is where you'll get ahead, writes argodesign's Jared Ficklin.
Prediction: In only a couple of years, a robotic cab ride becomes a part of the Vegas weekend, and someone you know owns a car that parks itself—as in, he pulls up to the storefront, walks inside the shop, and lets the car drive away to find its own space.
The Best Companies For Women Who Work In Tech
Thirty-five large companies voluntarily opened up their workforce data. Here are the firms that come out on top—though they, too, have a ways to go.
Want to work at a company that consistently hires and promotes women into top positions? Don't listen to platitudes about efforts to change workplace gender balance. Just look at the data.
World's Coolest Jobs: How Fenway Park's Organist Strikes A Chord With Fans
Josh Kantor uses a background in improv and indie rock to go way beyond "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" when the Red Sox play at home.
When you think about who plays the organ during games at Boston's historic Fenway Park, you might imagine that the same man has been doing it since the 1940s, possibly living in a memorabilia-filled studio apartment inside the Green Monster outfield wall. Or maybe that's just me. But Josh Kantor, Fenway's organist since 2003, is every bit a versatile, contemporary working musician: in the off-season, he plays keyboards and accordion for a huge array of bands, including R.E.M.-derived supergroup The Baseball Project. His connection with indie rock, as well as his knowledge of several generations' worth of pop music and background playing for improvisational theater, help him skillfully and spontaneously connect with the enormously diverse fans who come to the park.
The Nation's First Vegetarian Public School Is Thriving
But it can't be a model everywhere.
A few years before Queens elementary school PS 244 became the first public school in the nation to go vegetarian, it decided to stop serving chocolate milk. That had never been done before in New York City's school meals program. Robert Groff, the school's principal, says even that first simple step took a lot of time and effort.
April 15, 2015
This Guy Just Changed The Craigslist Ad Game By Selling His 2002 Ford Taurus With A Drone
All the other used car ads in Omaha, Nebraska? Whatev.
The last time a 2002 Ford Taurus looked this good was, well, back in 2002.
Today in Tabs: A Sadder And A Wiser Tab
Things to look at, things to read, and an inexplicable Samuel Taylor Coleridge theme. You know–an average Wednesday in Tabs.
There are only 19 more months until the next US Presidential election, so naturally the campaigning has already started because we are a diseased nation, crabbed and unwell in the deepest, guiltiest corners of the plague-pit that was once our soul. Hillary's logo is terrible though lol! Someone even made a font out of it (sort of). While we're at it (whyyyy are we at it?) m arco ru bio's logo is also terrible, but that's appropriate since m arco ru bio is terrible.
If You Can't Beat 'Em: Samsung Making Screens For Apple Devices
In a seeming concession to Apple's rising smartphone dominance, Samsung is developing screens for iPads and MacBooks.
Samsung has pulled together a 200-person team dedicated to producing screens for Apple devices, sources told Bloomberg. The move is something of a concession from the Korean tech giant, which has been losing ground to other smartphone makers in recent years.
All Hail Hillvetica, The Hillary Clinton Typeface
Now everyone can run for president!
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton announced her bid for presidency with a big blue 'H' connected by a red arrow pointing right. It's pretty obviously supposed to symbolize Clinton's ability to cross the aisles to get things done, or something, but it soon became a weird design Rorschach test, which the Internet interpreted as everything from the signage on a Carnival Cruise Ship to (duh!) 9/11.
Wrap's Plan To Reinvent The Mobile Web: Flipbooks
Eric Greenberg and Mark Rolston think HTML5 flipbooks are the future of mobile content. Are they right?
Mark Rolston, the legendary ex-chief creative officer of Frog and the head of Argodesign, is betting big on flipbooks. Along with several other Silicon Valley veterans, he's working on a new startup called Wrap that is adapting the old concept to a newfangled world of smartphones and tablets.
The Messy Business Of Reinventing Happiness
Inside Disney's radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks.
Bob Iger wanted approval. It was February 2011, and the Walt Disney Co. CEO gathered his board of directors inside an intimate theater at the company's Team Disney headquarters in Burbank, California. There, just the night before, Iger held an early screening for the board of Captain America: The First Avenger months prior to its release. The soon-to-be blockbuster served as another sign that Iger's bet on reinvigorating Disney's movie business through his acquisitions of Marvel and Pixar was paying off big.
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