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  • 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb

    Erik Sherman, inc.com TECHTOWN It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps. For the most part, there aren’t many par­al­lels between the cutting-edge… http://flpbd.it/wfdkE 6 Reasons Layoffs Are Really Dumb Related articles AFL-CIO’s Trumka:…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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  • The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

    The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills Eliza Barclay, npr.org Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects. But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste… http://flpbd.it/qq3h9 Related articles To Fund a Political…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • Etsy HQ breathing rooms and gross happiness

    Handmade Desks, “Breathing Rooms,” And Gross Happiness: Take A Look Inside Etsy HQ fastcocreate.com Beyond just quirk, crafty marketplace Etsy offers employes a green (B Corp certified) place to work where happiness is measured and learning is encouraged (two words: therapeutic doodling). Seven years into its exis­tence, the online hand­made a… http://flpbd.it/39vka Related articles Crafty…

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  • GMO in my foods: there’s an app for that

    An App To Tell You If There Are Genetically Modified Ingredients In Your Food BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com There are no laws that say companies have to tell you if they’re using genetically modified ingredients. If that doesn’t sit right with you, there’s now an app to help you sort out which foods’ genes have…

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  • The digital campaign

    The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead… http://flpbd.it/DViFx Related…

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  • Tradesy is an EBay for clothing hoarders

    Tradesy Brings New Life To Your Closet By Helping You Sell It To Others By Christina Chaey, fastcompany.com The secondhand fashion startup is streamlining the process of putting items up for sale to help you make more money in less time. Tradesy, an e-com­merce mobile app and web­site that launch­es today, is attempt­ing to take…

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  • It is possible to be a happy, financially stable freelancer

    How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talk­ing to cre­ative free­lancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeat­ed: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/Mtogd…

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  • Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living

    Lidija Grozdanic, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Cocoon Tree: A Light­weight, Spher­i­cal Tree­house for Sus­tain­able Liv­ing http://flpbd.it/dw1zk Cocoon Tree: A Lightweight, Spherical Treehouse for Sustainable Living Related articles Innovative Upcycling (creativefolkdesign.wordpress.com) Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses (inhabitat.com) Cocoon Tree Tent (werd.com)

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  • The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina

    The Farmery is a Farm and Market Set in Four Recycled Shipping Containers in North Carolina Tafline Laylin, inhabitat.com The Famery has suc­cess­ful­ly raised $25,000 on Kick­starter to make this project a real­i­ty, so if you live in Raleigh, you’re in for a spe­cial treat. So far they have devel­oped two pro­to­types along with a…

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  • Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

    Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Ben­son­wood’s Unity Homes fea­tures four dis­tinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bed­rooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a clas­sic Tall Cape), Xyla (Amer­i­can Bun­ga­low), Värm (Swedish… http://flpbd.it/xGx3f Related articles Sunmodo…

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  • Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck

    Super Tiny Whittled Down Caravan Home Comes with a Cat Observation Deck inhabitat.com We saw an array of amaz­ing home-made things at this year’s Maker Faire NYC, but one of the most impres­sive by far was the Whit­tled Down Car­a­van, a super tiny home on wheels. Built from scratch on top of a 4’ x…

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  • Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox

    Shipping Container-Inspired Homebox is a Tiny, Movable 3-Story Vertical Home Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Han Slawik based his Home­box on the ship­ping con­tain­er model for its trans­port capa­bil­i­ties, uni­ver­sal dimen­sions and use­ful­ness. But at the same time, wear, repair and main­te­nance of steel mate­ri­als is cost­ly, not to men­tion… http://flpbd.it/cSdov Related articles Starbucks Opens Drive-Thru Made…

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  • New Electric Touring Trike From Germany

    New Electric Touring Trike From Germany Very Speedy Nino Marchetti, earthtechling.com Elec­tric bicy­cles are quite com­mon these days. Elec­tric trikes though? Not quite as much. It is a cat­e­go­ry though see­ing some activ­i­ty, such as the recent­ly unveiled Scor­pi­on fs 26 S-Ped­elec which, quite frankly, looks to be an… http://flpbd.it/sqnfU Related articles Scuddy, the Electric Trike…

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  • Germany Sets New Solar Record

    Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly Half of Country’s Weekend Power Demand | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your…

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  • Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home

    Teen Finishes 130 Sq. Ft. Mortgage-Free Home Sami Grover Design / Green Architecture October 19, 2012, treehugger.com Next time you hear some­one com­plain­ing about today’s youth, or moan­ing about a cul­ture of enti­tle­ment, tell them the story of Austin Hay. We already post­ed one video of Austin Hay’s project to build a tiny house on…

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  • Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes

    Zendome: Gorgeous Geodesic Domes Create Flexible Spaces | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Diane Pham 5 Tips to Cut Your Electricity Bill With Energy Efficiency Expert David Johnston Cutting back on your energy usage is one of the best ways to bring down your electricity bill. But did you know that…

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  • Marijuana Majority Website

    Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot Legalization Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Suc­cess­ful peo­ple, not just “lazy ston­ers”, want pot laws to change. That’s the mes­sage of new web­site Mar­i­jua­na Major­i­ty, which dis­plays over 600 influ­encers includ­ing Peter Thiel, Sean Park­er, Paul Bucheit, and Dustin Moskovitz… http://flpbd.it/bDBXj Related articles Idaho braces for…

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  • Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder

    By Mark Frauenfelder, makezine.com This sum­mer the folks who pro­duce Dark Rye, the online mag­a­zine for Whole Foods Mar­kets, came to my house in Los Ange­les, and shot a video pro­file of my daugh­ters and me work­ing on dif­fer­ent projects. We made a gui­tar out of a metal… http://flpbd.it/MGnTr Whole Food’s Dark Rye profiles MAKE…

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  • How Facebook Photos Go Viral

    Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may rec­og­nize from the orig­i­nal Star Trek series, has a knack for post­ing viral pho­tos on Face­book. Recent­ly, the social media giant asked Sta­men, a San Fran­cis­co design firm, to cre­ate a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to…

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  • Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York

    Giant 3-D Printing Factory Opens In New York City By Dave Mosher, popsci.com Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous “Factory of the Future” in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year. The world’s biggest 3-D print­ing… http://flpbd.it/vyKIx Related articles Man sends…

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  • If Everyone Lived Like An American

    Daily Infographic: If Everyone Lived Like An American, How Many Earths Would We Need? By Emily Elert, popsci.com Hint: It’s a good thing not everyone lives like an American. You’re prob­a­bly already aware that Amer­i­cans con­sume a dis­pro­por­tion­al amount of the world’s stuff. You may even have bumped into some of the sta­tis­tics: We make…

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  • Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

    Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From pro­to­zoans to peo­ple, there is a lot of life on this plan­et, and it’s all con­nect­ed to a com­mon ances­tor from which every­thing…

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  • Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village

    Hackert0wn: The World’s First Eco/Hacker Village? By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com Alpha One Labs co-founder Sean Auri­ti and a group of like-minded hack­ers have launched a cam­paign to build Hack­ert0wn, a Brook­lyn hack­er­space the likes of which the world has never seen. As planned, Hack­ert0wn will be an entire hack­er… http://flpbd.it/8muih Related articles Twitter Account of…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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