I love what Johnny Lee is doing - having fun with all kinds of seemingly simple designs and sharing them with the world. Here is his TED presentation, definitely worth watching:
Johhny showed everyone that $40 and a creative mind can sometimes have far bigger an impact that what most large corporations can muster with their [...]
You must read this brilliant post by Clay Shirky:
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html.
*update on May 15, 2008 - video, hat-tip to Dean*
The bottom line:
in the early phases of the industrial revolution, with the rise of accelerated urbanization, people (esp. in London) didn’t know what to do with the newly acquired “civic surplus” - and they turned to gin until [...]