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August Classifieds Basement

Our August selection of the funny, touching and downright weird from the dusty basements of Gumtree & Craigslist. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "August Classifieds Basement", url: "http://ministryofgenius.com/2008/08/24/august-classifieds-basement/" });

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$1/watt solar energy - cheaper than coal

Nanosolar, a valley startup has started shipping solar panels priced at $1/watt. That means nothing to me, but apparently it’s pretty darn cheap as far as watt prices go. I don’t know anything about this market, but it even sounds good to me. Especially when you consider IBM’s top manufacturing exec has joined them, they have [...]

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Playing foosball at the end of the runway

I loved this laid-back attitude which is so hard to find in most parts of the world, this is during a recent trip to Panama. No - there’s no fence between the runway and the pitch, and yeah they are full-size permanent goals! When I was there the planes were landing going toward the pitch, [...]

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Firebug saves the day

I use Firebug all the time to track javascript errors, AJAX requests and to monitor network requests, and it’s a real cool part of my web development arsenal. But Firebug can be helpful in more ways than just testing and debugging your own apps. So, I’m pretty much in the middle of nowhere, in the only [...]

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Good public transport planning on the web

I’m not a big public transport user (other than the French TGV, and Paris metro), so I’m not up to the latest trends in this arena online or off, but I’m in switzerland for a few days and have been making good use of Swiss public transport, especially focusing on their website. The website simply asks [...]

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Interactive Skyscraper @ night: Pretty Cool

This is the Dexia building in Brussells - with some pretty cool interactive lighting. By night it becomes the focal point of the city - seen for miles, when all 4,200 windows of this building, which are equipped with RGB LED’s, illuminate. But where it gets interesting, is anyone can go and interactively stamp their mark [...]

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Property in Europe. As close to the EU as it gets.

How much closer can you get to the center of Europe? I spotted these 2 little homes behind the new European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. Literally behind - no more than 20 meters. There’s got to be an interesting story behind how these two houses managed to stay, with the new parliament built - and [...]

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Yet another

This was in the lobby of a huge building in Brussels. What’s crazy is the resolution this thing seems to be running at. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Yet another", url: "http://ministryofgenius.com/2007/10/14/yet-another/" });

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