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Need power generation plants always exist as hulking industrial behemoths? Wind and solar power growth is already shifting the generation of electricity from an eyesore to a new and necessary component of our 21st century landscape.
Now a British architectural design firm is giving the more conventional combustion power plant a much-needed makeover. Of course, this [...]

New York Magazine published a piece providing some insight into the marketing – one might even say “gastro-econo-engineering” – that goes into well-planned restaurant menus today. The information is pulled from the book Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by author William Poundstone.
The terminology Poundstone uses seems roughly [...]

With my engineering roots, I can’t resist occasionally lobbing some props to fellow engineers (or Imagineers) who produce undeniable displays of creativity, even when I share none of the motivation that inspired their innovative adventures.
Take Christmas lights. As a teenager, I had no intrinsic motivation to hang the family Christmas lights. In my mind, hanging [...]

In researching glass container sustainability initiatives, I came across this awe-inspiring press release from Tyson’s Wright Brand at Package Design Magazine. Wright Brand has been working with Interbrand to update the packaging and branding of its bacon products. Bacon is an undeniably delicious and versatile food — and pleasantly fatty, compared to the rest of [...]

Sounds like the wine industry is wising up and realizing that shipping millions of tons of glass around the country, or even the world, just to transport some Two Buck Chuck doesn’t make any economic or environmental sense. You will now be seeing more wine in plastic bottles. Good move!
Plastic reshaping wine trade — latimes.com.

President Obama visited my home state of Iowa yesterday, on Earth Day, to highlight his administration’s energy agenda, including reduced greenhouse emissions, increased renewable energy production, a cap-and-trade emissions reduction program, and the creation of an advanced energy innovation industry as a pillar of the US economy. See the AP article.
Obama used the town of [...]

Dogfish Head (out of Delaware) is one of the few breweries in the country brewing big IPAs that can keep up with the Pacific Coast breweries (particularly those in San Diego!).
Plus, they have some awesome new artwork for their 75 Minute IPA bottle label:
 
 
 

Updates in Craft Beer Press Releases | Beernews.org.

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.
What’s a chumby? The quick answer is this: chumby is many things, and the list never stops growing.
We last wrote about chumby in April 2008, when they raised $12.5 million in a Series B round in order to “accelerate growth of the company, and expand and broaden the Chumby Network to other screen-based [...]

Cross-posted from StartupSD.net.

In February of 2008, six guys in San Diego decided to fundamentally change the software community for the better.

You need only read the first sentence of OpenCandy’s About us page to learn a telling amount about the new company: one, they carry a grand vision for the impact their product will have on [...]

Chris Pirillo interviewed a Microsoft employee about work on a project called “Salsa”. Watch the video and then ask yourself the following questions.

Would you consider the research and development Microsoft is doing on the social networking aspects of email communication to be innovative?
My answer: Yes. Just from this short video I can tell Microsoft is [...]