2SLEEP1 is a 66-minute playlist of audiovisual performances in text mode, designed to make you fall asleep. Made by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Each participant gave us capsule descriptions of their own first principles (professional or personal, organizational or individual), and talked about how those principles have changed over time and about the place where they began.

Random Hacks of Kindness is a global community of innovators building practical open technology to make the world a better place.

This question is very broad. I'd love to see 1000+ answers to this question. It's an exercise to help entrepreneurs find inefficiencies and problems in everyday life.

i.e. Grocery shopping: Having a need for food, desire for certain foods, making a list or not, getting in car (or other transport), traveling to grocery store, walking through aisles, pulling items off aisles and placing into a cart, going through a check-out process where items are scanned and placed into bags, payment process, leaving store with items in bags in a cart, unloading cart of bags into transport, travel home, move bags into home, unload bags into home (fridge, cabinets).

A little experiment using StreetView and orientation detection (view on an iOS or Android device, while turning around)

Envisioned as a key fixture in your home, the mirror uses face recognition to call up personalized data, including health stats, a calendar, news feeds, and other information relevant to your morning routine.

Cue is a public domain gestural icon system which focuses on legibility and symbolic representation.

An interactive tool that depicts the 500 companies on Fortune Magazine's annual list of America's largest corporations. Click and drag the mouse to see how a company's rank has changed over the years from 1955 to 2010. Or change to the Revenue and Profit views to see other perspectives.

This is a collection of ideas for apps and websites people are wishing for.

Think of it like a suggestion box for the future of technology.

This project displays receipt trash found over a 48 hour blitz in Baltimore City, Maryland. The collection area was focused on the neighborhoods of Charles Village, Bolton Hill, Downtown and the Inner Harbor. Whether propelled by human movement or nature, the receipts have made a migration from the retail location to the found location.

“We spend all this time thinking about cities in terms of their local details, their restaurants and museums and weather,” West says. “I had this hunch that there was something more, that every city was also shaped by a set of hidden laws.”

This is a recipe for using iTunes Smart Playlists to create a personal radio station from your music library, which will play old favorites, new jams, and obscure stuff in ratios which you can tune yourself.

“The Morrow-Project” is a unique literary project which shows the important effects that contemporary research will have on our future and the relevance that this research has for each of us. Research currently being conducted by Intel in the fields of photonics, robotics, telematics, dynamic physical rendering and intelligent sensors served as the basis to inspire four bestselling authors. The results are four short stories which paint amusing, thought-provoking and hopeful pictures of our future.

Bing Maps is introducing mall directory maps that will help you easily navigate shopping malls and retail stores.

Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME.

Takes you to a random spot in the world. Lovely.

The top 100 most downloaded copyright free books summarized using Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function.

Social discovery engine for TV, movies, and online video

Historypin lets people layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, providing a series of geo-located time tunnel views into the past.

Three main issues that a better online news-reading solution should address: friction, readability, finishability.

The obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties—something that, if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellows.

At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below.

A real time, flowing, dynamic stream of information — that we as users and participants can dip in and out of and whether we participate in them or simply observe we are are a part of this flow. This world of flow, of streams, contains a very different possibility set to the world of pages. Among other things it changes how we perceive needs. Overload isnt a problem anymore since we have no choice but to acknowledge that we cant wade through all this information. This isnt an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have to get to the bottom of — its a flow of data that we can dip into at will but we cant attempt to gain an all encompassing view of it.

[Facebook is] a continuous stream of information that delivers a deeper understanding for everyone participating in it. As this happens, people will no longer come to Facebook to consume a particular piece or type of content, but to consume and participate in the stream itself.

The Now Web is synchronous -- and synchronous tends to favor urgency over importance, drama over efficiency. More now/synchronous/exciting, but arguably less efficient. Do we choose the excitement of urgency -- over importance?

It’s not that any one of us will get an exclusive but that those who are good at sifting through large numbers of tweets, most of which have tons of noise, will be able to curate a story that no one journalistic team will be able to build on their own.

A well-designed news site. Surprised at how well the headers stand out with really just a color difference.

That's one well-designed news site.

The primary goals of interaction models used around the flow involve separating content from the conversational stream, extracting meta data where possible, assigning categories and embedding within content structures and navigational systems. Then the social challenge becomes making it accessible (search, browse, and categorization) and making it socially interesting (lists, rankings, votes, etc).

Examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities.

Good experiment, but I don't see how this improved the design of it one bit.

A bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable browser-based to-do app.

A quick reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. Handy for the desk, TDR contains over a thousand facts on typography.

Everyone is fighting for eyeballs and the way they do it is by looking like their competition?

Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.