containers

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Business

Microsoft’s 224,000 Servers Only Take Four People To Set Up

12:00PM Rosa Golijan | There are 2000 in that container. And there are 112 such containers in Microsoft’s $US500 million Chicago data centre. It may seem somewhat ridiculous, but this container-based data centre design is absolutely brilliant (and environmentally sustainable to boot). More »
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Design

Someday, I Want to Live in One of These Shipping Container Houses

1:00PM Adrian Covert | Adam Kalkin is most recognisable for the shipping container coffee shop he designed last year for Illy. Now, Fast Company has a profile on Kalkin with a bunch of pics of his other structures. More »
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Design

Double-Lidded Jar Took Way Too Long To Exist

12:20AM Mark Wilson | Why do jars only have one lid? How many mothers have—upon discovering they were running low on peanut butter while readying her three kids from school—smashed the jar against the counter and filled their children’s lunches with a deadly mixture of creamed legumes and shrapnel? It’s a senseless loss of healthy youth esophagus, and an even more tragic loss of perfectly good eats. In the face of record global food crisis and acid reflux commercials, it looks like the double-lidded jar showed just in time. [Sherwood Forles via DVICE and Yanko] More »
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