(Images: London Science Museum) From Ecouterre , here’s one way to turn your newspapers from ordinary trash or recycling into instant couture: This upcycled dress made from 1,000 newspaper cranes by Yuliya Kyrpo. This stunning outfit is part of the Trash Fashion show at London’s Science Museum, which has featured interesting experiments so far like clothing grown from green tea and bacteria . We’re wondering, too, if Yuliya’s gorgeous paper crane dress is a stylish but fitting fashion tribute to a well-known young victim of the atom bomb back in World War II

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Upcycled origami dress made from 1,000 paper cranes

From the No Shelf Required website : I’m thrilled to inform you that No Shelf Required: E-books in Libraries will be released in late August. This edited book, published by ALA Editions, discusses a variety of eBook topics for school, public, and academic libraries

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New book about ebooks in libraries – release in August

Social Media Marketing for Dummies is a resource for businesses who are looking to embrace the “social world” to engage with their customers. The author, Shiv Singh , is considered a social media guru who now heads the digital marketing for PepsiCo. If you would like to grab a copy of Shiv’s Social Media Marketing book for free, head over to dellsocialmedia.com and fill in the form.

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Social Media Marketing for Dummies – Get your free copy

The iPhone 4 went on sale in many other nations on Friday, and unlike the explosion in the media in the U.S., there seems to have been remarkably little fuss around the globe about the matter. The Sydney Morning Herald grabbed the biggest chunk of the news with a piece titled “iPhone 4 fault fails to surface for Sydney fans.” And though the first paragraph of the article hurls some nationalistic zingers — “Maybe their mobile signal is weaker, or maybe our hands are just smaller?” — it’s actually onto something. If the Aussies are seeing fewer issues with the antenna design of the iPhone 4, then what the heck is going on

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No Antenna Issues for Australian iPhone 4: Did U.S. Litigiousness, Media Invent It?

News Corp. is weighing a bid for Major League Baseball’s bankrupt Texas Rangers, the New York Post reported Monday.

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News Corp. Considers Bid for Rangers

Thanks to Rachel Ray, extra virgin olive oil (or “EVOO” as she has playfully deemed it) has become a grocery staple in American grocery stores as well as American kitchens. Remember, it wasn’t so long ago that olive oil in the home meant that rancid bottle of Bertolli hanging out in the back of the pantry with the discarded bottles of molasses and rice wine vinegar. Now, EVOO is front and center in the kitchen and used for just about everything from salad dressings to cakes

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Virginity questioned: How extra virgin olive oil lost its purity

For organic caterer Annie Marshall, what was originally a means to support her daughter has since become a dedication to teaching people the benefits of healthier eating reports FrederickNewsPost.com .

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Veggie Annie’s Recipe For Success

Hoboken’s Ian Sacs (right) and Juan Melli with a Corner Car. (Jim Motavalli photo) HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY — Fresh off the $1.75 PATH tubes from Manhattan, I am standing on a pleasant residential street lined with brownstones in downtown Hoboken, New Jersey with the boyish Ian Sacs, head of the city’s transportation and parking bureau. In front of me is a Toyota Prius, just like any other except for the fact that it is parked in a green-lined space …

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Innovative car sharing helps a walkable city clear its streets

Publishers Lunch daily email is reporting that, in addition to the State of Texas, the Connecticut Attorney General is investigating ebook pricing: Now Bloomberg reports that at least one other player is Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office, saying “the information was disclosed in an e-mailed statement.” The news service says they are “investigating agreements between the country’s largest e-book publishers and Amazon.com and Apple that may block competitors from offering cheaper e-book prices.” Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us

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More state anti-trust investigations of ebook pricing

Cnet’s Crave gadget blog has an article about these free comics : One of the under-the-radar killer apps of Apple’s iPad is the collection of comic book storefronts (which also double as comic readers). They’re all free, and connect you to virtual comic shops that sell digital issues of comics for about $2 each–with transactions handily conducted through Apple’s app store back end. There are official Marvel and DC Comics apps, along with indie apps such as Comics + app from iVerse, IDW Comics, and the Comics app from ComiXology, which sell titles from a variety of large and small publishers

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20 great free iPad comics

From a Blog Post In June, we concluded a survey, linked on 10 of our highest traffic websites, with more than 5,000 responses from patrons around urban and rural America.

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Ebooks and audiobooks: stats about OverDrive users

Fox News has won a front-row seat in the White House press room after the shakeup following the retirement of the longest-serving journalist in the presidential residence, the correspondents association said Monday.

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Fox News gets front row White House seat after shakeup

BestTabletReview has a good overview of the hype surrounding all the cheap Android tablets. Android attack! Lately the internet has been abuzz with cheap Android tablet talk. This last week it was all about the Augen GenBook78 which appeared in a K-Mart circular for $150.

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Attack of the cheap Android tablets

The Wall Street Journal makes no bones about the matter: Its report , based on discussions with industry insiders, is headlined “Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy.” The core argument centers around the new version of MS’s “industry leading” browser that hit PCs in 2008: Internet Explorer 8.0. According to several sources close to MS’s management and coders, there was a huge move to differentiate IE8 from the other, increasingly competitive, browsers on the market by making it a champion of user privacy protection

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Microsoft’s Role in the Erosion of Online Privacy

Volvo’s car division was sold from the bigger Volvo home company (which also manufactures commercial vehicles, construction equipment and aerospace components, among a long list of other specialties) to Ford in 1999, with the Swedes making $6.45 billion from the deal, and sharing ownership of the Volvo marque with Ford–who were the only company allowed to use it on cars. Back in 2008 was when the first news surfaced that Ford was interested in selling the Volvo name at the height of the recession, and the marque probably seemed a good option to sell at at time Ford was struck with large losses (and Volvo was never a particularly glamorous name to own anyway: Remember “Buy Volvos: They’re boxy, but good!). Presumably Ford pursued several buyers

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Ford Sells Volvo Car Brand to China’s Geely, For $1.5 Billion

News Corp. is considering an acquisition of the Texas Rangers baseball franchise, according to a published report, in a move that would allow it to reap rewards from the team’s resurgence in the standings.

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News Corp. mulling buy of Texas Rangers: report

We’ve seen a number of contactless credit card enterprises hitting the news recently, backed by big names and with slightly different notions about how the technology works. But the news that AT&T and Verizon are forming a joint venture to compete in this space totally transforms the market from a slightly boring, and long-term one, to a dynamic and exciting one. Bloomberg notes that the efforts include T-Mobile USA and will be piloted in stores in Atlanta and three other U.S

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Specter of Apple Looms Over Verizon, AT&T’s Cell Phone Credit Cards Game

All you need to know right now, from shrimps to billionaires. While you drifted off, BP stole livelihoods (again), Richard Branson blogged about being in business for funsies, and some new competitors arose in Asia. 1

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iFive: Branson on Fun, Asia Nobels, China Water Projects, BP Destroys Fisheries, Iraq Loses Electricity

Last week, the news media was awash with stories giving readers the impression that the Gulf of Mexico is no longer awash with oil. While the slick on the surface seems to be receding quickly, many of these reports have, unfortunately, failed to stress that the absence of evident oil is not necessarily evidence of absent oil. On Tuesday, federal…

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“Missing” the Point

Emerging group experiences have predictable dynamics, whether they are new project teams, training and development programs, wilderness experiences, or just people learning new jobs. People form relationships based on first impressions and sometimes-false hopes, find that things haven’t gone as imagined, and then struggle through confusion and misunderstanding to create their own positive norms that help them work effectively. The best leaders help people through these stages only to find some common issues popping up — things people seem to want that even the best leaders can’t provide.

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Four Things Groups Want that Leaders Can’t Give — and One They Can