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If you insist on having a flash mob even though it's not 2005, this is how you should be doing it.

With the emergence of #OccupyNigeria, the Yahoo-Yahoo Boy is confronted with something of an existential dilemma.

As the believers count down to the end of the world, some clever operators count up their cash.

News of knock-off Chinese goods showing up in Western markets is nothing new, but the fact that American soldiers have been utilizing weapons patched together with bootleg electronics is a profound revelation.

I'm writing to you from a curb across the street from a discount hostel in Tokyo. I'm not staying at the hostel, but its WiFi isn't password protected, so I'm taking advantage of their lax security as I don't have the necessary credentials required to access the majority of the city's telco-administered hotspots. A twentysomething Aussie backpacker has just finished sweeping up a pile of cigarette…

Imagine if you could pay your next restaurant bill with time instead of money. At Time/Food, this scenario takes place at each meal: this temporary restaurant offers daily lunches where the only currency accepted is a half “hour note”, or 30 minutes of each diner’s time. Based on the fixed-price comida corridas of Mexico, the outpost is organized by Time/Bank, a New York based platform where people…