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Page one features 2 reinventions:

* In an interesting twist to the reimagining world theme we often discuss, Picture Cook takes the stuffy old recipe format and redesigns it with a focus on experimentation. Even if you’re more into the cut-and-dry recipe format, these flowchart-like versions of recipes will look great on your kitchen wall.

* Travel Time Tube reworks the classic London Tube map. A fixture in the design world, this site completely changes the focus of the map from relation to time. Put in two stations and watch it change forms based on routes that take the longest.

Page two looks at two captivating photo collections:

* Ghana- The Electronic Dumping Ground of the World highlights the dark side of technology and electronics. Perhaps the ‘new gadget smell’ isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be?

* Finally, we get a glimpse of a somewhat odd underworld in Taryn Smith’s Contraband. These images showcase 1,000 various items confiscated at JFK airport in New York. Some items make sense, but some…. well you just need to see them to believe it.

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Dear Foursquare,

It is today, your  two year anniversary since becoming the belle of the ball at SXSW, that I write you this letter as someone who cares. I used to pull out my phone to check in and it was fun- beating others to it, trying to become mayor, showing off badges, explaining animatedly what you are. Now I’m a bit, well, embarrassed. I find myself checking in surreptitiously for fear of being judged. Just the other night I was at dinner with four other guys who at one time used your service. You should have seen the heaps of scorn thrown my way. “Really? You’re still using Foursqaure?” You would have thought I had pulled out a map and a few quarters for the pay phone the way they mocked. After the teasing and incredulous looks, the next question is always the same:

Why do you still even use it? What’s the point?

It’s a fair question.

In this week’s Reflecteur, we highlight two games (Zombie Streetview
Apocalypse & Famous Objects from Classic Movies) to help you waste
oodles of time and two popular photographic memes (Looking Into the
Past Photos, and Young Me/Now Me) that you just might go out and try
yourself.

We’ve also included some recently popular tumblrs under Top Reflecteur
Links… in case you have a few more hours to burn.

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We’re sorry issue 78 of Reflecteur is a bit late, but we make up for the tardiness in quality. This issue is a bit bipolar – much like the Internet itself.

Page one focuses on two poignant items currently popular in digital culture:

The first, a film called “The Chapel,” is a stunning example of our ‘Talent Required’ and ‘How to’ themes from the most recent recap presentation. It also touches on another theme we often see – the way we humans seem to love to uncover hidden gems in our world.

The second item is a the first ever group page created on 1000memories, a site that allows users to create virtual memorials to those they have lost. Egypt Remembered collects images and information on those killed in the protests across Egypt earlier this month. A great example of the universality of photos, the gallery brings home the human cost of the protests better than any article or news piece could.

Page two is more flippant and ridiculous:

So, for those of you that know me, you know I can’t cook. And for those of you that don’t know me, It’s not that I don’t like to cook, it’s really that I can’t. The only time I’m at a big name grocery store is when I’m out of TP or laundry detergent. I instead prefer to do my grocery shopping in places that I can walk to versus have to park in a lot at. See, it’s in those types of local groceries that I can get quality pre-made eats or things that require very little preparation. And by local grocery establishments, I don’t mean the corner liquor store that is also good for an occasional carton of milk.

It was with some confusion then that I entered my local meat market on Saturday, in need of my deli favs and some hash of the corn beef variety, and encountered twenty something in PJ’s – seriously, the average age of the mid-day clientele was cut in half. It took me a moment to realize that earlier in the week, Paulina Meat Market was one of the daily Chicago Groupon deals. My worlds had collided; commerce of the digital variety, hottest internet start-up and darling of Chicago had invaded my local little traditional marketplace. And as I wandered the store and filled my basket, I realized I was grinning with pride.