Learn Something Every Day is a daily project by UK based design studio Young.

Getting it Right is a new plan launched by the Wales Assembly government to support children in having their voices heard.

The Body Image Project cuts to the chase and asks the simple question, “How do you feel about your body?”

Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World, a new book by Robert McKinnon inspires us to keep a generational promise to leave the world a better place than we inherited.

The New Oxford American Dictionary recently announced their word of the year for 2009.

A partnership between Google and Monopoly will turn the whole globe into an interactive game.

Judith Supine continues installing his work in hard to reach places. His latest, “Above the City in a Summer Night Dream,” was crowned on top of the Williamsburg Bridge.
[via Wooster Collective]

Using the logic that everything can be recycled into something new, Japanese underwear manufacturer Wacol recently launched a bra recycling campaign. The collected bras were processed and recycled into solid fuel.
The company explains:
“From February to April, we distributed plastic bags to our customers in the hope that they would bring them back full of their old used bras. We have since received 350 bags and around 35,900 items,” indicated the company’s public relations department.
The amount collected, if hooked together, would be three times the height of Mt Everest. Total weight, approximately 3.59 tons.
[via Japan Today]

The attack on Twitter last week wreaked so much havoc on the micro-blogging site that the outage is now referred to as a Twitpocalypse. Even the smiling whale page announcing “Twitter is over capacity” wasn’t visible because log-in was impossible for two hours. The DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks knocked the micro-blogging service offline on Thursday and reduced service levels for a much longer period. The twitter meltdown raised questions concerning security in the digital age and how it’s a bad idea to rely on a closed, singular service provider – imagine only having one email service!
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The light bulb is the key image used to represent the moment an idea is sparked. The Economist wants to know exactly where these epiphanies happen. 

Thinking Space is an exercise in interactive sharing and discovery. A stunning 3-D micro-site is the visual playground where the question is posed and answered. Clicking on the “Explore” button reveals the intimate launch pads of nine people, ranging from writers and musicians to CEOs. Each thinking space is divided into cubes when rotated and aligned together create the original photograph. The red dots appearing on the image one reveal detailed audio clips [...]

Agency laid you off? Make Lemonade.
That’s exactly what Eric Proulx did when he was laid off from his copywriting job. He launched his own blog as a support system for ad agency creatives and the overwhelming response inspired the idea for Lemonade. The short documentary candidly tells the story of former directors, designers, and writers from the instant they were fired and what came next. Each person describes how their dismissal dramatically changed their life. The time to pursue life-long dreams ranging from painting to holistic healing became new sources of creativity. Lemonade will be released for free online in late [...]

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Citysounds.fm organizes and unleashes the latest music from some of the world’s most dynamic cities, from Tokyo to Sao Paulo. The project shows off each city’s unique audio soundtrack that reflects its inhabitants energy, charm, and passion. The project, developed by Swedish duo Henrik Berggren and David Kjelkrud uses SoundCloud’s API to find the music and streams it to build an online catalog of global beats.

[via Music Hack Day]

Several colorful new tape art pieces by Aakash Nihalani have recently appeared on the streets of New York City.  The impromptu graphic pieces highlight the contours and geometry of the city, making for playful visual grids that brighten the urban landscape.

[via Gugazine]

The “Emo” Recycle kit by Harac of Tokyo is comprised of three tools to help make the recycling process easier. It contains a “bottle cap ring remover” that cuts off plastic caps from glass bottles (i. e. vinegar and salad dressing or oil bottles which often have tight plastic caps) and carton scissors, to ease the flattening of milk or juice cartons. Aerosols can be punctured by the “Spray can gas remover” and afterwards discarded in the recycle bin. All of these functional and simple tools are made from stainless steel with resin handles.