Robert Kern

“The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation’s first certified “living building,” having no negative environmental effects. The centerpiece of the project — designed by Kansas City, Missouri-based BNIM and John Todd Ecological Design of Woods Hole, Massachusetts — is a revolutionary system that will clean 5 million gallons of wastewater a year. The facility also doubles as an education center focusing on — what else? — sustainable living.” – Anne C. Lee via fastcompany.com

Via geekzone:

“As Lance pointed out on Twitter though, being fingerprinted for minor offences without being arrested isn’t exactly peanuts. Next time you’re caught going too fast, you might be fingerprinted. In fact, any time a cop looks at you askance, you could have your prints taken.”

I now have the email addresses of 544 people who signed up to receive info about B+W thanks to what is hopefully an oversight that will never happen again.  The service launched today and the company sent out an email to those people who submitted their address.  Normally with a newsletter like that, you would put all the addresses in the BCC field, or even better, use a newsletter system that creates one email per email address.  B+W put all the emails into the To field (split over a couple of runs), so now everyone who signed up has everyone elses email address – including mine.  I had a quick skim over and saw some addresses from people i recognise, and some that im sure wouldnt be too happy to know that 544 people now have their address.  Perhaps a little care and polish is required B+W.
Looking forward to see what changes – if any – happen across the board in regards to mobile pricing – particularly data pricing.