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Looking for a way to spice up office meetings? Consider hiring ABGC Architecture and Design to build a LEGO table like this one, which was commissioned by Dublin ad agency Boys and Girls. Inhabitat reports that the table was made with 22,742 LEGO bricks snapped together the old-fashioned way–no glue necessary. The whole thing was placed atop a stainless steel base and covered with a four foot by nine foot slab of glass, presumably to prevent angry employees from smashing the table.  Read more... (114 words, 3 images, estimated 27 secs reading time)

Obama may have declared our country the Land of High-Speed Rail last April, but here in California, we promised back in November 2008 to raise more than $40 billion to fund a massive high-speed network running from San Diego to the Bay Area. But that didn’t include an all-important spur for one of the most heavily traveled routes in the state: One third of Las Vegas’ 38 million annual visitors are Southern
Californians who drive the four-hour route up I-15 in heavy traffic clogged by drunken bachelor party caravans.  Read more... (326 words, 4 images, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Fast Company talks with VW’s chiefs of engineering and design about the 2011 Touareg Hybrid.  Read more... (439 words, 5 images, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Students at Seton Hill University (not the similarly named, sports-centric larger university in South Orange, NJ) are a damned lucky bunch–or someone has a pretty spot on sense of humor. The “iPad Initiative” begins in Fall 2010, with the simple and enticing slogan “An iPad for Everyone.”

While not technically falling on April 1, this does reek of shenanigans. Let’s just put that out there. But such incentives are not unheard of — remember Duke and Drexel Universities’ free iPods for new students program?  Read more... (211 words, 2 images, estimated 51 secs reading time)

Obama may have declared our country the Land of High-Speed Rail last April, but here in California, we promised back in November 2008 to raise more than $40 billion to fund a massive high-speed network running from San Diego to the Bay Area. But that didn’t include an all-important spur for one of the most heavily traveled routes in the state: One third of Las Vegas’ 38 million annual visitors are Southern
Californians who drive the four-hour route up I-15 in heavy traffic clogged by drunken bachelor party caravans.  Read more... (326 words, 4 images, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Clive Wilkinson’s new headquarters for an Australian bank represents the cutting edge of the “mobile office.”

One of the simplest climate change geoengineering solutions we’ve seen is the white roof, which naturally reflects sunlight back into space and keeps buildings cool. Energy Secretary Steven Chu even went so far as to say recently that slathering our pavements and roofs in white paint might offset 44 billion tons of CO2, or the equivalent of taking all vehicles off the planet’s roads for 11 years. But a research and development company called United Environment and Energy thinks there is a better solution: smart roof shingles coated in waste-oil based polymers.  Read more... (241 words, 2 images, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Google, we know, loves to extend its grasping business tentacles in as many directions as possible, so the company’s execs will be interested to learn of this particular G-fail: Panasonic is rejecting Android for TVs, citing expense.  Read more... (416 words, 3 images, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Looking to create some spring designs with floral patterns? We got you covered with the Ultimate Collection of Free Adobe Photoshop Floral Brushes. Download a few or all of the free brush sets and create something amazing. Don’t forget to bookmark this post and share it with your friends.

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The set contains 6 brushes.  Read more... (426 words, 44 images, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Over 375 feet high–that’s 72 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty–Anish Kapoor‘s ArcelorMittalOrbit has been chosen as the monument to mark the London Olympics in 2012. The city’s shy and retiring Mayor, Boris Johnson, has already nicknamed it the Hubble Bubble tower due to its striking resemblence to a shisha pipe.  Read more... (443 words, 4 images, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)