industrialist:

Steeped in Exploration. Coconut-Shaped Building Unfolds Into Social Seating.

Made from all local materials, opens out into six seats and becomes a site of communal tea drinking. The structure aims to raise awareness and explore our relationships with the environment and each other.

Designer: Matthew Mazzotta

Wish my ceilings were tall enough for this!

It’s hard to take the NYTimes serious when it uses Nextag, possibly one of the spammiest and least consumer-friendly websites, as an example of Google hurting a small website. Nextag is neither a small website, nor it is a website that I as a consumer want near the top of my Google search results. Good job, Google, in moving them down the rankings.

Charley at Fort Mason

Trick or Treat!

Happy Independence Day! (Taken with Instagram at National Air and Space Museum)

Awesome watching Tiger at the US Open the day after seeing Matt Cain’s perfect game in SF. 

Perfect Game!

Some examples from the Bing blog, where on{X} was announced:

• Wouldn’t you like to program your phone to automatically send a reply SMS with your current location as you’re driving when your wife texts you a “where?” message?
• How about programming your phone to automatically show you today’s agenda as you step into the office?
• Or show you the weather when you wake up in the morning?

Is it just me, or does it seem odd that Google’s PDF viewer would need to access all my tabs and browsing activity - and my data on all websites? Can’t it just show PDFs and not be creepy?

Impressive growth for Chrome