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March 13, 2015
What To See And Do This Weekend At The Fast Company Grill In Austin
Are you in Austin this weekend? Be sure to stop by the Fast Company Grill!
Are you in Austin this weekend? Stop by the Fast Company Grill at 201 Brazos Street! The Grill is open to invitees from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. We will offer lunch, cocktails, iced and hot coffee, Wi-Fi, a co-working space, and these special events:
Star Wars, Ada Lovelace, DNA, Or The Internet: The Geek Debate Continues
Daniel Terdiman, senior writer, VentureBeat, authors Austin Grossman and Chris Taylor, and blogger Rusty Blazenhoff continue our Geek Debate.
There were 32, and then 16, then 8, then four, and now two finalists.
Google Apps Bug Leaks 280,000 Users' Domain Data
A software bug fixed in February exposed names, phone numbers, and more data—dating back to 2013.
It was just discovered that Google leaked the personal data from almost 280,000 websites registered through its Google Apps For Work service since 2013, according to Ars Technica. The leak was revealed in a blog post by Cisco Systems researchers. Unlike most leaks, which are deliberate hacks at weak points in database security, this data was just made available to anyone who searched for it in the WHOIS directory, the public database of registered domains.
The Recommender: SXSW Interactive 2015 Edition!
Headed to SXSW Interactive? Here's what Fast Company editors and writers down in Austin think you should do while you're in town!
SXSW Interactive has changed a lot over the years—but it's still one of the funnest gatherings of techies, entrepreneurs, marketers, and other creatives in America. Every year, Fast Company sets up camp near SXSW at the Fast Company Grill so that our editors and writers can have easy access to all that the annual convergence has to offer—you can stop by the Grill too, just check out our Grill schedule here. Check this page often—our staff will keep adding their recommendations for what to do, see, use, and eat while you're in Austin this weekend.
Kevin Bacon Doesn't Like Puns, But He Is In This Eggs Commercial
Because nobody knows eggs better than bacon. See what they did there?
Sometimes the most obvious choice is actually the best one. And recruiting Kevin Bacon to be a spokesperson for eggs is so perfect, it's almost shocking it's taken this long to happen.
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6 Downloadable Food Machines For The Urban Homesteader To Make On Their Own
No need to spend a lot on your next worm hotel or chicken coop. Now you can make them yourself with these open-source designs.
Open source product development started with software. Now it's spreading to hardware as well. Projects like WikiSpeed and WikiHouse show how distributed groups of people can refine new designs and create products with no decisive owner.
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What Champions Of Urban Density Get Wrong
Just because it's physically possible to squeeze more buildings and people into a city doesn't mean that you should.
After a century of encouraging Americans to light out for the open spaces of suburbia, the nation's development gurus have now decided that what we really need are more crowds. Not just more people, but more tall buildings, more shops, more restaurants and more amenities, all of it crammed together in a compact geographic area. The planning shorthand for such concentrated development is "density" and it is hailed as a market-driven cure for a myriad of the world's problems. By increasing density in our cities and towns, planners say we can reduce dependence on carbon-spewing automobiles, slow environmentally destructive sprawl, increase our stock of affordable housing—while making cities safer and more fun places to live.
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The World's Most Overrated Architecture And Urban Design
Tiny houses, the Seagram Building, urban density—which one of these overhyped designs fires you up the most?
What do two of New York's most famous skyscrapers have to do with with vertical gardens, design competitions, and Frank Gehry's uber-reflective L.A. concert hall?
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Hate Your Soulless Office Tower? Blame The Seagram Building
Mies van der Rohe's famed New York City skyscraper is the mid-century modernist equivalent of the gigantic hit record.
First, the obligatory disclaimer: Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building is unquestionably a great piece of architecture. But this slick glass tower, which rises 39 stories over Park Avenue in New York, is also something else slightly more peculiar: the underwhelming masterpiece. Loved, admired, worshipped and revered by the architecture profession, it has become a building whose virtues need some explanation, especially to the uninitiated.
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4 Animated GIFs That Reveal The Secret To Great UX Testing
All designers should use these techniques to test their designs.
Great designs don't just fall out of a designer's brain. More often than not, they're the result of rigorous testing, using a nebulous mix of scientific and not-so-scientific techniques. But if you're not sure what the difference between a clickmap and a scrollmap is, you're in luck. Courtesy of the San Francisco web design firm, Froont, comes a new round of animations which show the four main types of UX testing that exist (and have been adopted by companies like Facebook, Google, and Netflix).
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