Urbanized

After the huge success of his first two movies: Helvetica and Objectified, Gary Hustwit’s next movie is called Urbanized. The third documentary in this trilogy is about the design of cities. Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love

Ars Technica on why blocking ads hurts the websites that you visit: There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won’t hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis. If you have …

Most expensive javascript ever?

A single line of javascript code that would upset everyone at Opera: However, one of the world’s biggest hardware vendors – whose name every single reader will be familiar with, and whose hardware a good share of you will be using right now – apparently didn’t do their homework. When Opera’s sysadmin booted up the …

Fancy McDonald’s

McDonald’s is replacing bolted-down, plastic, yellow and white “furniture” with lime-green designer chairs and dark leather upholstery. It is the restaurant chain’s biggest revamp in more than 20 years, and, together with its franchisees, it plans to spend more than €600 million, or $806.6 million, remodeling 1,280 of its European restaurants by the end of …