New MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch might have just accepted the art world’s most controversial position , but if there’s one thing everyone can agree he’s great at, it’s throwing a party.

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Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum

You know times are tough when a best-selling plastic icon who has been steadily working since 1959 finds herself unemployed.

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Help Barbie Choose Her Next Career, You Guys!

First Abu Dhabi announced the ultra-sustainable Masdar City , and now South Korea has decided to build its own self-sufficient city, dubbed Sejong City or the Multifunctional Administrative City (MAC). The MAC, located 100 miles south of Seoul, is slated for completion by 2020.

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South Korea’s Sejong City Could Be Competition for Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City

Possible phrase of the future: Dr. Walgreens will see you now.

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Business in Front, Wellness in Back: Walgreens’ New Diabetes Program Makes Customers Patients

There has been a bit of hand wringing of late over the fact that 30-second television spots during this year’s Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 7 on CBS are going for only around $2.75 million.

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Uncommon Indicator: Super Bowl Ad Spending

Richard Branson gained another small step toward the great leap of space tourism yesterday, when Cecil Field, a commercial airport in Florida, announced they have achieved federal license to the company’s new breed of plane-like spacecrafts .

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Space Tourism Update: Virgin Galactic Can Play Ball on Florida Field

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the acronyms for high-definition TV technology–plasma, LED, LCD, DLP, OLED, and now…LPD? A Silicon Valley-based startup called Prysm has developed a Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) that supposedly consumes 75% less power than other display technologies. Prysm also promises that LPD can provide crisp screens that are cheaper to build, have a lower carbon footprint, and last longer than existing HDTV screens

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Move Over, Plasma, LED, and OLED: LPD Is in Town

When Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak drops by the office for a visit , it’s guaranteed to generate at least one video-worthy moment, like the one below. He was visiting to pitch Fusion-io, a company that’s engineered a solid-state storage solution that could radically alter the server farm landscape.

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Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak on the Future of Computing: It’s Human

We tried to give Monsanto the benefit of the doubt when the company announced that it wanted to produce soybeans with extra helpings of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acid-boosting oils.

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Is Your Morning Cereal Damaging Your Liver?

Underlining what some have been thinking , it’s now been confirmed that Google’s Nexus One “superphone” isn’t super enough to go flying off the shelves. In its first week of sales just 20,000 units have been bought by the public. The data’s coming from Flurry, like similar analysis before it, and it’s pretty representative of what’s happening in actuality because Flurry tracks millions of user’s interactions with thousands of apps (via embedded adverts) and then calculates how many phones are in action on a particular platform–like Android or iPhone

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Google Nexus One Failing: Just 20,000 Sold in First Week

Waste vegetable oil has long been the substance of choice for environmentalists who want to fill their diesel engines with something other than petroleum.

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Slippery When Lettuce: British Researcher Wants to Cover Roads in Veg Fat

Five years in the making, the On chair is meant to increase muscle health by keeping you moving–and never coddling your inner couch potato. You probably sit at a desk chair, nearly motionless except for your hands, for eight hours a day

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A Chair Designed for Moving and Grooving

This is going to interest sysadmins the most, but it’s also a surprise blow against Microsoft: Virtualization experts VMware have just bought out Zimbra, who make collaboration software. The target is clearly MS Exchange. Zimbra, makers of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for Mac OS X and Linux, was just bought by VMware yesterday from its previous owner Yahoo

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Microsoft Exchange Faces Challenge From VMware-Zimbra Deal

Brand Clock , by Tanner Woodford, chronicling some of the 1,035 brand identities he encountered on October 14, 2008 Three words. Billions of dollars. If you look at Nike revenues, the big money set in consistently after 1989, the year of the great “Just do it.” Did the words define the moment, or did they then drive the machine

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10 Taglines to Help U.S. Companies Compete in a Post-American World

Lego’s revolution will be tweeted–just check out LEGO CL!CK , the company’s new social networking Web site. Now, even though anyone who’s every spent time with the bricks knows they don’t actually go “click” when you put them together, it’s a pretty cool site. A little sparse for now in terms of content, but the plan is this: players and thinkers from all over come here to share ideas (Lego-related or not) in the form of tweets, videos, photos, and blog posts

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Lego’s New Site Brings out the Kid–and the Procrastinator–in All of Us

How can one hear about all this hard work and not perceive, even on a subconscious level, that there is some reason these brown-skinned characters must dig deeper? … And perpetuating difference is exactly what, I thought, Disney was attempting to avoid by showing that, yes, black women can be princesses, too….” Cinderella had to work hard, too; but that was portrayed as a barrier to her dream life, not a gift

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Thoughts on The Princess and the Frog

A clever hack allows one young photographer to recreate a famous work, minus the price tag. Andreas Gursky is a giant of contemporary photography–his massive landscapes and architecture shots document a world overflowing with junk and commerce. Often over 10 feet on a side, they command prices in proportion to scale: His 99 Cent II is the most expensive single photograph ever sold, having fetched $3.3 million at auction in 2007

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Using Google Earth to Recreate a $1,000,000 Masterpiece, for About $0

Raise your hand if “Get a New Job” is at the top of your list of New Year’s resolutions. Whether you’re currently “spending more time with your family,” or toughing out another year in a company you would have surely fled in a better economy, you’re probably wondering what you can do in 2010 to improve your chances in a brutal market. Nick Corcodilos, aka the ” Ask the Headhunter ” guy, recently published a new book chock full of tips for the thorniest of job-hunting problems: ” How Do I Change Careers?

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Hoping to Change Careers in the New Year? Try These Seven Radical Steps

Happy New Year! The Elder Economic Security Initiative team would like to thank all of our partners and friends for your help in making 2009 such a success! The Initiative launched in four more states in 2009 (Michigan, New Jersey, Minnesota and Connecticut) and invited an additional three states (New Mexico, New York, and West Virginia) to carry out the project. Each of these states will officially launch later this year! In 2010, the Initiative looks forward to expanding our team by hiring a Field Coordinator. We will also be expanding our reach through a new messaging campaign, Building Bridges to Economic Security, funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies

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Happy New Year: Update on the Initiative

In what must have been a fit of inspired creativity, the holiday decorators at the Palazzo came up with utter brilliance. The bedecked papier-mâché bears were good, the snaky branch, flower, ornament and light thing was super-cool (if a little reminiscent of one of Lord Voldemort’s scarier incarnations), but the ornamental pool filled to the brim with cranberries was pure genius

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Corporate Cranberries