SwipeGood rounds up all of your credit card purchases to the nearest dollar (and then charges the total at the end of the month) allowing you to donate the difference to the charity of your choice.
Three bottles of Mackinlay's scotch whisky, abandoned in the Antarctic ice by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, have returned home to Scotland. Despite the bottles being frozen solid at minus 30 degrees Celsius, the whisky inside was still liquid. Wonder how it tastes?
Interesting way to visualize what it would be like if you lived in another country. IfItWereMyHome compares your part of the world with another to see how you life would differ. (EXAMPLE: If you lived in Afghanistan you would 4x more likely to be unemployed.)
Following Goldman Sachs' $500 million investment in Facebook that values the company at $50 billion, the investment firm is inviting its wealthiest clients to chip in (Although a private company, Facebook does trade on secondary markets where former employees look to unload their shares.).
If people aren't willing to purchase content directly on the web, why would publishers think that they would want to pay for the same content in an app?
An ever-evolving collection of "the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language" - very similar to AIGA's set of passenger/pedestrian symbols.
The Snuggie and the Shakeweight have financially benefited from free publicity that pokes fun at them. Snuggie is expected to sell their 25 millionth blanket by year's end. This also explains why nearly 25% of our office White Elephant gifts were either Snuggies or Shakeweights.