Have you checked out LinkedIn lately? It’s become seriously good. Three points: 1. No walled garden. By far the best thing about LinkedIn is that I can export my contacts. All the connections I make belong to me, and I can take them with me. All the value I create in my social network is [...]

Yasmin Sethi has designed a super sexy chess set inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. In ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll, Alice falls through a mirror and on the other side of the mirror, she becomes a piece in a game of chess. Inspired by this, the chess pieces have [...]

This is just one of the many amazing nests and cocoons and huts that Patrick Dougherty makes. Gorgeous.

I love that sometimes, the lore of a city turns out to be true and that all the mystery we thought lacking in our lives becomes present again. Here’s what I mean: The lost rivers of Manhattan are real; hundreds of streams and whole wetlands were paved over and filled so that the roots of [...]

Check out this minimalist cabin built from off-the-shelf parts. It’s 140 square feet, and features a cleverly re-purposed garage door.Link. Found on notcot.org

Ladies and gentlemen, replate has hit the big time.First, Daily Candy wrote an article about it, which ran this morning. And we just finished being interviewed for tonight’s NBC nightly news show! If you’re in SF, watch channel 3 at 6pm to see us wax poetic about the project. And know this: The project never [...]

A fellow out in Chicago just emailed us to share his concept for using newspaper dispensers as a place to replate your leftovers. It’s a great idea, especially in cities that don’t have ledges or hoods on their trash cans. Check it out here.

For those of you who saw this a few years ago, watch it again. It’s still brilliant and creepy and good for you too.

Heyaz, Replate is now about a week old, and it’s been met with a very strong response. Lots of conversation, and surprisingly, a little bit of confusion too. So we thought it’d be a good idea to add a section to the site to help with all that. Check it here.

We forgot to mention one other thing people have been talking about in regards to replate: Many are saying that if replating your leftovers counts as activism, then the bar for activism is set way too low. Maybe that’s true. But though the first steps of activism (however you define it) are small ones, they [...]

Replate is less than a week old and already we’re getting a lot of props (thanks everybody!), some photographs of replated food from cities all over the country, and requests for stickers are coming in. We’re psyched. There’s also been some good conversation around the food we let go to waste. And that’s really what [...]

Big news! We’ve launched that project we were struggling with a while ago and we’re super psyched to share it with you. The project is called Replate and it’s about creating a new household word to promote a behavior that’s not getting the attention it deserves. Think of it as a public service campaign that [...]

Most days, I wake up with an deep urge to do the hard work of changing myself and the world around me for the better. But some days, I wake up and all I want to do is ENJOY the world—just to have a day where I live as if everything is just as it [...]

You know how planets with moons kinda look like atoms with electrons, and vice versa? Well, this short movie made in 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames shows that when you look at our world through lenses of different magnification, you start to see all sorts of similarities like that. It’s called Powers of Ten. [...]

Remember oobleck? It’s the goo that happens when you mix cornstarch with water (and sometimes food coloring), and it’s remarkable because it’s “viscoelastic”, which means it’s runny if you’re gentle with it, and stiff if you’re brusque. Strange stuff. Now a company called Monsterpod claims to have figgered out how to use viscoelastic goo to [...]