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Not only is Starbucks my favorite place to get coffee (Caramel Macchiatos to be exact), but this is also my favorite architectural design I've seen this year so far. What you see in these pictures is a Starbucks drive-thru created from four huge shipping containers. The containers are recycled and r ...

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Closet Swap App: Trade Clothes With Your Facebook Friends

It's interesting that during these economic times when many people are sticking to a strict budget, some people are using technology to find creative ways to get things done in a way that costs less money than it usually would. For example, several months ago I wrote about an iPhone app called Ta ...

The US National Debt & Budget Made Easy [Humor]

With everything that has happened in the past few years concerning the global economy and the constant increase of the American national debt, it's easy to understand that people want change. They want change, and they want it now. People are suffering, and even losing their jobs. That ultimately, a ...

Modern Money Redesigned By Creative Artists & Writers [10 Pics]

Over the past few years, it seems the world's economic ups and downs have dominated almost everything in our daily lives. Financial issues impact what we see in the media, where we choose to live, where our children go to school, and even what and where we decide to eat. The Guardian, which is qu ...

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Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers: Star Wars Gets High Tech

In case you don't know what carbon fiber is, I will quickly explain it. Carbon fiber is a high tech, super strong material that has gotten very popular over the past few years. Many times it's used to make expensive gear designed for people with discriminating taste, but that's only because the mate ...

Fashion Designs That Transform Into Emergency Equipment

Do you know what a prepper is? I just learned about this a few days ago. A prepper is a person or group of people who believe that a catastrophe might be coming in the not so distant future (i.e. breakdown of the economy, a terrorist attack, a natural disaster), and they are preparing for it so when ...

Entertainment

Map Of Video Game Spending In The U.S. [Infographic]

I am a frequent YouTube watcher, and I usually indulge in the many commentary gaming videos that are constantly being uploaded to this service. It's a great way to get the latest info about games and the technology behind them. The commentators are usually really fast, and once a new game is release ...

Technology

5 Minute Guide To Scoring A Job In Social Media [Infographic]

Hitting up a job in today's economy isn't exactly the easiest of tasks if you aren't uber qualified and know your stuff. Then there is the challenge of looking in the right place as well. Just applying for jobs left and right because you need one might not be the right thing to do since you could lo ...

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Ghosts With Shit Jobs: A Sci-Fi View Of North America In 2040

I must warn you, once you watch this little video, you won't be able to un-watch it. It will be burned in your brain forever. Someone told me that ten seconds before I permanently scared myself by watching the trailer for The Human Centipede. I should have listened. This is similar to that, and sinc ...

Commercialism Illustrated: The Room Adorned With 100,000 Dollar Bills

With the economy in a state of uncertainty at the moment, it's very interesting to me to see how people choose to spend their money. I like to write about it sometimes, not from the perspective of judging whether or not I agree with it, but more from the standpoint of just being an observer. Yest ...

Technology

The Ferrari Of Tomorrow Is Beyond Insane

No matter what the economy looks like, there will always be people in the world who apparently have enough money to spend on luxury items that other people would only dream of just standing in the same room with. We see it on the news over and over again about billionaires who build billion dollar y ...

Woman Discovers How To Live Happily Without Any Money

What does it mean to be rich? Does it mean that a person has a lot of money? Does it mean having a big house with a lot of things in it? I know people who have an abundance of money, but their health isn't good. To me, that's not rich. There are also people who are completely broke but in perfect he ...

The Cost Of William & Kate’s Wedding [Infographics]

You can hardly go on the Internet today without being confronted with the royal wedding that took place yesterday. News reports estimated that there were over 2 billion people watching the ceremony and the partying. That's almost a third of the entire population of the world. Sure, I had a peek at t ...

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