Reality Mining

According to Gregory Skibiski + Tony Jebara, co-founders of Sense Networks, Macrosense (the analytical tool) applies complex statistical algorithms to sift through the growing heaps of data about location and to make predictions or recommendations on various questions — where a company should put its next store, for example, or predict tourism (they can tell you how confident consumers are + tell retailers about their competitors, who’s coming in from particular neighborhoods). Other companies in reality mining include Inrix, a Microsoft spin-off + Path Intelligence (Britain).

Useful links:
www.sensenetworks.com
www.inrix.com
www.pathintelligence.com

I think the technological innovations are great but what worries me is the privacy issues.

Test Your Green-energy IQ

How much do you know about solar power? Test your green-energy IQ and learn some surprising truths @ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/quiz/2008/jun/24/energy.usa

Le Bassin Aux Nympheas

A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, has been sold by Christies, London, for a record £40.9m. Painted in 1919 in Giverny in France it has been seen in public just once in the past 80 years. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5100003

Useful link:

www.christies.com

Lives Per Gallon

Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction by Terry Tamminen is an interesting book on true price of petroleum and a prescription for change. Great read.

Terry Tamminen was former chief policy advisor for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger + he is the operating advisor to Pegasus Capital Investors + the Cullman Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation. He spends his time advising world leaders on how to design and implement climate-change solutions.

Useful links:
www.livespergallon.org
www.terrytamminen.com

Where To See Famous Diamonds

- Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
www.mnh.si.edu

- Jewel House, Tower of London
www.hrp.org.uk

- Galerie d'Apollon, Louvre
www.louvre.fr

- Armoury Chamber, Kremlin
www.kremlin.museum.ru

- Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul
www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr

- Green Vault, Dresden Royal Palace, Dresden
www.skd-dresden.de

- Condé Museum, Château de Chantilly, Chantilly
www.chateaudechantilly.com

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. Kenneth R. Fletcher writes about the Crewdson's unique techniques or in-between moments @ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gregory-crewdson.html

It's just about trying to find something elusive and beautiful and mysterious in the world.
- Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson's pictures definitely look like paintings. Brilliant! I liked it.

Gallery Of Graphic Design

I found the gallery of graphic designs @ graphic-design.tjs-labs.com intriguing.

Doorways To Dreams Fund

I found Peter Tufano's financial innovation @ http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5908.html educational and insightful.

Useful link:
www.d2dfund.org