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Dane Messall, a member of the Minneapolis design community, asked earlier today, Flavor of the week? What about #startup of the week? Who will be hot next week? I took a look around HackerNews and found some recent projects people have been working on and decided to link them up. The first one, Meteor, made [...]

My friend Calen Fretts is running for Congress in the 1st District of Florida. Calen is a Libertarian and hopes to unseat Jeff Miller, the incumbent politician since 2001. The Constitution was written with the intent to put chains on the government, restraining it to only a small number of specifically enumerated powers. Now, though, [...]

This gem was sitting in the drafts folder for nearly a year. A barn condo hybrid with a pretty cool kitchen (via Arch Daily).

Ze Frank is back with a new video blog project, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. "Let me think about the people who I care about the most And how when they fail or disappoint me I still love them, I still give them chances, And I still see the best in them. Let me [...]

Make no mistake. We are in the middle (perhaps nearing the end) of a tech bubble. Facebook's announcement of their purchase of Instagram for $1Billion in cash and stock will end up as one of the significant road markers of the second tech bubble (another will be the Facebook IPO). However, I want to discuss [...]

Nilai is a place online to save links. "You're bombarded with links all day from friends, coworkers, family. Via Twitter, IM, or email. You can't read or watch everything! So let Nilai keep them for later. Catch up whenever, wherever you are! Nilai works on your computer, phone or tablet." The primary thing that makes [...]