A short post of a quick snippet, like a link
A very interesting art and environmental project: The CON-venience Store. Decades old litter collected in the Forest of Dean on display in a shop to highlight the problem of indestructible litter.
(Via the BBC, ‘Shop’ stocked with Forest of Dean litter opens)
Oh dear, this doesn’t look good for this summer. My favourite weather forecaster journalist Nathan Rao is predicting the hottest summer ever (ok, for 40 years):
90 DAYS OF SUNSHINE: Britain set for hottest summer in 40 YEARS as the mercury rockets
That’s from the same guy who late last year predicted Coldest winter for 50 YEARS set to bring MONTHS of heavy snow to UK. We all know what happened with that. One of the mildest winters ever…
Inspired by:
Earlier today, on Google+, I came across an interesting video about the design of everyday items, in this case the humble door. There are indeed bad doors (or better, badly designed doors) out there:
From The Economist Espresso: Quote of the day