April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Every Badass has a library and a hallowed out book
blacktieknight: Learn how to make a hallowed out book here.  It’s good to have places to hide things that might come in handy. We agree! Fun project for a snowy day…
Feb 21st
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Feb 12th
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“The “seed bombs”—essentially seeds packed with mud—started dropping in 2009. The...”
– Secret Seeders Plant Edible Veggies for Inner-City Poor | TakePart - Inspiration to Action (via apsies) Galvanize Valentine’s Day (hide splendid things for people you love) Idea #4: Guerilla Gardening. You could give flowers. [Yawn.] Or you could plant flowers together (or bulbs and direct...
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Want: Personalized Hot Chocolate Spoons
fritesandfries: I saw these spoons on The Bedlam of Beefy and I thought they were pretty cool: Each spoon has a personalized message (written by you!) hidden in a block of chocolate. Once the chocolate melts, your “Valentine” can read your secret message: (…unless if you bought it for yourself — then it wouldn’t be a secret would it?) Galvanize Valentine’s Day gift ideas #1: Neat...
Feb 9th
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January 2011
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We Need Your Help! (Please)
The background: Hundreds of amazing people are part of Galvanize, hiding gifts and finding gifts hidden for them. The problem: The first screens of Galvanize, our log-in and join screens, need some love. They’re fugly. (We also really want to build the Android version! That’s next.) While we’re still testing and in a public alpha stage, everyone wants to use Galvanize as a...
Jan 25th
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And here’s another video from this work, “Conductor,” in progress—The Map Room blog’s Jonathan Crowe points out this is based on Vignelli’s 1972 subway map. More on Alexander Chen’s blog (chenalexander.com) and Twitter (twitter.com/​alexanderchen).
Jan 21st
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The NY Subway Map as an instrument (this is one of two posts) by Alexander Chen. “Currently HTML5/Javascript. Hopefully iPad version later on. Blog with progress at chenalexander.com - Twitter: twitter.com/​alexanderchen” (We found this on @maproomblog!)
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December 2010
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“Jim and Della live their lives with such a sense of humor (O. Henry’s wit...”
– - from “The Gift of ‘The Gift of the Magi’” in Fast Company Nice piece, pointing us, once again, at the gift of giving.
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November 2010
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“I think that the best gifts circumvent guilt in two key ways: by eliminating the...”
– Dan Ariely (via poptech) Great advice, although the desire gift might not need to be bought, right? See you out there—
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Give or Get
justdelightful: Dogbrella how clever! What a fun gift to find if you have a pet!
Nov 2nd
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First Galvanize update up in the iPhone store!
So happy to announce that our first iPhone update for Galvanize is up in the store. The most exciting news is that we now support iOS 3.0. You asked and we heard you! We are especially glad to hear that those of you who have been waiting to download Galvanize are ready to join us now. In this update, we also added a way to change your password and send yourself the password from the log-in...
Nov 1st
October 2010
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Trailmix.Net's Tumblr Outpost: Vicarious... →
trailmixnet: NASA Astronaut and Geocacher Michael Barrett is poised to snatch the most traveled travelbug in the history of Geocaching: TB27AH8, currently orbiting the earth on the International Space Station. This travelbug has logged 311 Million miles, travels at about 17000 miles per… Exciting! What a fun travelbug to find!
Oct 31st
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Needs to get moving
mrsoptimistic: The kidlets and I are going geocaching today. :D Then hunting up leaves, rocks, acorns and whatever else we find for our natural table. Let’s go on an adventure.  Fun!
Oct 28th
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Our founder Kristen spontaneously hopped a flight to London (we know! She’s crazy fun) to find a Galvanize gift hidden by her friend Ben. Here’s what happened…
Oct 21st
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“The greatest gift you could give someone is an experience.”
– Chef Brooke Peterson (via victoriahj) :) We agree.
Oct 20th
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kadachiquotes: let’s play!
Oct 14th
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Here’s our founder, Kristen Taylor, showing you how to play Galvanize! p.s. We’re presenting at the New York Tech Meetup tonight (along with GroupMe, Hashable, UpGo, OpenVBX, FastSociety, Catchafire, Plum Willow, Hitmaker). You can watch the livestream starting at 7p; Kristen will likely present sometime between 7:15 and 7:30p EST.
Oct 12th
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