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Six 'Killer Apps' That Let the West Dominate the East

From historian Niall Ferguson's April 9, 2010 Financial Times essay.

1. Representative government

2. The consumer society

3. Protestant work ethic

4. Market capitalism

5. Modern medicine

6. Scientific method

Bacon & Eggs Band-Aids

Seven strips of bacon and seven eggs.

$4.95.

MorphWorld: Russell Hobbs Kitchen Scale into... Doh!

If you're in the UK, forced to wait until the end of the month to get an iPad, and find yourself increasingly fretful and anxious, you might consider picking up one of these nice looking kitchen scales and carrying it around kind of like a blankie or teddy bear to sooth your nerves till the big day finally arrives.

"Tempered glass weighing surface will look good in any kitchen!"

£10.

Target Bath Mat

Jasper Johns, call your office.

$19.

In a perfect world...

 

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What are they?

Answer here this time tomorrow.

RGB Wallpaper

 

From Creative Review: 

"For Milan Design Week, Italian studio carnovsky 

created a series of wallpapers 

that react to different coloured lights. 

The designs were created for the Milan shop of 

Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. 

Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a 

white, red, green or blue light is shone upon them."

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Knife Block

Handmade from native German wood.

25 x 10 x 9cm.

€39.90.

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