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Iconoculture: Palmolive is for dishes, right? Yes, but its also a favorite for hair in Mexico. Palmolive Caprice shampoos and conditioners are being stocked on Wal-Mart shelves in stores serving predominantly Latino populations.
The National Geographic Assignment Blog is featuring a short excerpt from my book The Shallows, illustrated with some photographs from National Geographic photographers. In the excerpt, I look at the map as an early example of an intellectual technology that both reflects and disseminates a new way of thinking. Read it….
Babygadget: I don’t think I ever got much beyond a sarong-style scarf when it came to protecting the wider world from the sight of me, learning to breastfeed: and once I got more adept, even that went for a burton.
As software obviates the need for Chinese to sketch by hand the characters that make up their written language, they are coming to realize that those characters are being erased from their memories. Barbara Demick recently reported on this “long descent into forgetfulness” in the Los Angeles Times: This is a strange new form of illiteracy or, more exactly, dysgraphia, the inability to write that is peculiar to China … The more gadgets people own cellphones, smart phones, computers the less often they go through the elaborate sequence of strokes that make up Chinese characters. Whether…
Springwise: Enabling customers to make the most of their time while their car is being serviced, independent Porsche dealership Autofarm recently began offering a complimentary travel service to and from a nearby luxury outlet mall.
Gizmodo: If you want to make delicious bread out of rice, you normally have to get rice flour and work from there. But with the Sanyo Gopan rice bread machine, all you have to do is pour in handfuls of rice. Of course you need to pour in the other bread ingredients too, but the point is that the Gopan will turn rice into bread without requiring you to hunt for pricey rice flour. Instead the machine turns grains of rice into a paste which is blended with the other ingredients and then baked into some yummy goodness.
