There is a very annoying cellphone dead spot between Stamford and Bridgeport CT, on the I-95 highway / Amtrak railway corridor, right by a small coastal town. This little breach in an otherwise frictioness web of connectivity is probably a result of some recalcitrant NIMBYs who earn and spend their income with Big Business but cling to [...]
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flagrantly fragrant
intoxicating night air
Springtime in the Bronx
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….that is to say, they CAN do it and the reality of the marketplace is that they WILL eventually do it, but they’ll do it on their own terms and in a way that minimizes the cannibalization of their legacy cash cow businesses.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-21ExpandInteroperabilityPR.mspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042301437.html
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Here’s a silly little idea:
When the wearer of this shoe walks on soft ground or through a puddle and then looks back at their footprints, they will see the word “CARBON” printed onto the ground behnd them — a literal rendering of their environmental impact.
I couldn’t find anything already like this out there — at [...]
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Ok, the title of this post is a bit of a teaser. It was going to be “The Seven Habits of Highly Unreadable Books” but I decided that would be too much of a diss on Stephen Covey, who is actually a brilliant guy with some great ideas. This post does not have seven of anything, [...]
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Let’s start a new meme collection. The collection will consist of phrases which have a formal structure resembling the following :
put(ting) (the) x (back) in(to) (the) xy
…where x is a word/idea that is a fragment of a larger word/idea, xy.
for example:
Putting power back into empowerment.
Putting the human back into humanism
or this one, from an old episode of [...]
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Each year, Google runs at least one April Fools Day gag. This year they put in some serious production time and wages — at least five figures’ worth — into rolling out Project Virgle. The concept here is that Virgin and Google would team up together and colonize Mars. The gag was well executed, with just [...]
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