Neil Jones

"ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. ImageOptim combines various optimisation tools: AdvPNG from AdvanceCOMP, OptiPNG, PngCrush, JpegOptim, jpegtran from libjpeg, Gifsicle and optionally PNGOUT. It's excellent for publishing images on the web (easily shrinks images “Saved for Web” in Photoshop) and also useful for making Mac and iPhone applications smaller." Ooh, looks excellent. - Neil Jones

Going to bed earlier protects teenagers against depression and suicidal thoughts, research suggests. A US study of 12 to 18-year-olds found those with bedtimes after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went to bed before 2200. And those who slept fewer than five hours a night had a 71% higher risk of depression than those who slept eight hours, the journal Sleep reports. - Neil Jones

"First part of interview to Juhani Pallasmaa [1936-], arguably the most important finnish architect alive. His silent -yet strong- influence has supported careers like the ones of Peter Zumthor, Glenn Murcutt, Rick Joy and -more recently- Pezo von Ellrichshausen. He also won -together with Steven Holl- 1992 Kiasma Museum competition in Helsinki. Man has some good friends. But Pallasma is no networker. His interest and research on the phenomenological aspects of architectural experience has made him -after years of insistence- into one of the leading voices against the soulless values of post-capitalist architectural practice, clearly articulated in his 1996 essay The Eyes of the Skin. " - Neil Jones

"When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal. In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video. I finished NYC Time Square version and will make Portugal version next week. It will continue in several cities." Wonderful. One-trick pony (?) but a good one. I love that barely anyone looks at her, as if this is entirely normal behaviour for Times Square. - Neil Jones

"A collaboration between Ball-Nogues and American Apparel. The installation includes 10,000 AA t-shirts." - Neil Jones

"I think The Tablet is nothing short of Apple’s reconception of personal computing." - Neil Jones

"From the head and hand of master draftsman Scott Teplin comes a series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet. Explore in each a bizarre, miniaturized constellation of bed rooms, drawing rooms, fantasy swimming pools, mysterious laboratories, personal ice cream parlors, gambling halls, nuclear reactors, and oozing phenomena of unknown consequence. Each crisp drawing pops from its page in a field of floating color." - Neil Jones

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Foursquare, the geo-location based check-in game, just announced its first venue that is combining badges and promotions. On Foursquare you get badges for checking into places. The person who checks into a place the most becomes the “Mayor.” You also get promotions from restaurants and bars nearby based on your location. Now those two elements are being tied together. For instance, Blynk Organic a restaurant in Charlotte, North Carolina is the first venue to offer this promotion: - Neil Jones

Lovely organisation-wide way of seeing who's got to be doing what when - Neil Jones