I voted

On this most super of all Tuesdays, I hit the poles. As promised I took along my camera and documented my experience for the Polling Place Photo Project.

Demonstrate the richness and complexity

Heading out to vote in the primary election should be the top priority for Americans, but taking photos of your polling place should be the second priority for designers. In a campaign called Design for Democracy the AIGA - the professional association for design - is working to “demonstrate the value of design by doing valuable things.” Working with different government agencies to redesign the voting experience, the AIGA hopes to improve the interactions between US citizens and their government. Designers across the country can contribute to the cause by documenting their voting experience and submitting photos to The New York Times Polling Place Photo Project.

"The Polling Place Photo Project is a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that encourages voters to capture, post and share photographs of this year’s primaries, caucuses and general election. By documenting local voting experiences, participants can contribute to an archive of photographs that captures the richness and complexity of voting in America."

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday and I plan to vote and document it and submit the results!

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Polling Place Photo Project: how to participate.

When will Apple get it?

New reports are surfacing that 35% more iPhones have been sold than have been registered with AT&T or the specially selected European carriers.

John Oates on theregister.co.uk reports, "Apple says it has sold 3.7m iPhones in total. AT&T says it has sold 2m iPhones, and European operators are believed to have sold between 300,000 and 400,000 handsets.

Which means there are either 1.3m iPhones being used as bookends, or an awful lot of people have gone to the trouble of unlocking the devices to run them on different networks."

Who's doing that?

Click here to see the full article.

Being self-employed doesn't help

An economic stimulus plan that won't stimulate me. The main stipulation to getting a check from the government is having received a paycheck. I unfortunately have not had a paycheck in over four years. No stimulation for me. (Besides, I don't think it will boost the economy they way the government expects.)

Read more, here.

Comedian is living in an IKEA store

Comedian Mark Malkoff decided to call up IKEA Paramus to see if he could move in while the apartment he shares with his wife was being fumigated. Shockingly, IKEA said yes! His wife, on the other hand, is staying with family in upstate New York.

This week he moved in to one the 'homes' in the upstairs showroom. Customers come and visit him, he makes people take off their shoes before entering his home and it looks like he's generally having a really fun time!

Mark is posting videos on his website: Mark Lives in IKEA

Thanks Jennifer!