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Clockwise promises to optimise your calendar to free up blocks of uninterrupted time. Its algorithm helps resolve meeting conflicts, handles different time zones, and makes sure you get enough time for lunch every day.

This fun, playful iOS app tracks your water (or other fluids) intake throughout the day and reminds you when it’s time to have another drink.

Inspired by Can I Use?, Can I Email? is a searchable database that helps you determine which CSS attribute and HTML tag is supported by the various email clients.

Magic Kit →

Modular set of eco bags

The Magic Kit is a backpack, a shoulder bag, and a bum bag made from recycled PET bottles, tire-tubes & cotton scraps, made in Brazil. The three separate bags can be connected through a set of clips and straps, or worn separately for different occasions. I actually emailed them to find out more about their eco credentials (there is a lot of greenwashing out there) and I was positively surprised to hear about their thoughtful material choices.

Radical Technologies →

The Design of Everyday Life

“Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the networked objects, services and spaces that define us. It is time to re-evaluate the Silicon Valley consensus determining the future.”

Do you feel the pressure to ‘follow your dreams’ and get meaning out of every minute of your day? This essay on being OK with compromise – in work and life – might soothe your anxieties: “I wouldn’t dare to advise young idealists either to follow or not to follow their dreams. At the most, I might advise them to be wary of career preachers, whether radical or conservative, and that, while they shouldn’t fear commitment and leaps of faith, they also shouldn’t fear compromise.”

A case for treating ‘having the blues’ like most other temporary physical health issues: “If a common cold can be natural, inevitable and random, maybe an emotional cold can be too. Perhaps both can offer that rare, almost silly insight into how good it feels to not have a cold, and serve as an opportunity to tend to one’s self.”

Just like car culture or consumerism, our love for meat was shaped by a long history of marketing, lobbyism, and misinformation that have created deeply engrained and unsustainable societal behaviour patterns. “In the media, in pop culture and even in progressive, enlightened polite society it is still widely acceptable to make fun of vegans. The stereotype of the smug, self-satisfied, annoying vegan has taken deep cultural root. One survey found that vegans are viewed more negatively than atheists and immigrants, and are only slightly more tolerated than drug addicts.”