Month: June 2012
June 7, 2012
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A Starbucks Price Increase, to a Not-So-Round Final Number – NYTimes.com
STRONG coffee gets me out of bed in the morning. I start gulping it at home, and after a train ride into Penn Station I usually stop at a Starbucks in Times Square for another jolt. On Jan. 3, my first working day of the year, I got a jolt all right. So did hundreds of other Starbucks customers in…
June 6, 2012
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Ars Technica nicely explains @hover‘s integration into #thunderbird13:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/personalized-e-mail-feature-in-thunderbird-13-lets-users-register-a-domain-name/
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Father’s Day isn’t a big deal for me, but BEING a father sure is.
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THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Role Reversal: Why TV Is Replacing Movies As Elite Entertainment
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Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91 –
http://NYTimes.com
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Goodbye Ray.
Ray Bradbury played a pivotal role in my life. He’s one of the men who made me what I am.
June 5, 2012
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Android Users: What’s the best Twitter client?
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Hover Personal Email in Mozilla Thunderbird
http://www.hover.com/blog/friends-partners/hover-personal-email-in-mozilla-thunderbird/
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world think that yoga pants were pants and not underwear.
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The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management “Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his important new book, Fixing the Game , “holding a press…
June 4, 2012
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My daughter wears my vintage Sex Pistols t-shirt much better than I did 35 years ago.
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Don’t Make Us Treat Our Customers Like Criminals! – Blacknight Blog
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Google Places Is Over, Company Makes Google+ The Center Of Gravity For Local Search
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Joho the Blog » Distribution models that work. Are we finally getting it (them) right?
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Re-framing the dichotomies: Open/Closed vs. Integrated/Fragmented | asymco
Google likes to market itself as “Open” in contrast to “Closed” alternatives. Apple likes to market itself as “Integrated” in contrast to “Fragmented” alternatives. These dichotomies are judgmental and meant to portray “us=good” vs. “them=evil”. Neither gets to the point of how the two companies are…
June 3, 2012
June 2, 2012
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Damn these are good seats! (@ The Music Hall for Great Lake Swimmers and Cold Specks w/ 3 others) [pic]:
http://4sq.com/NtNMIN
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The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” – Slate Magazine
American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence…
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Now turmeric, there’s a spice!
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Cinnamon is the douchebag of spices. It demands attention, has no subtlety and is almost toxic in large doses.
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I’m looking forward to @greatlakeswim and @coldspecks tonight. Last gig I saw at the Music Hall was:
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Everybody goes to Iceland.
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Public funding of Catholic schools needs to end. I’d love to see this become an election issue.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/tabatha-southey/ontario-archbishop-chooses-the-wrong-cause-to-play-the-martyr/article2449700/
June 1, 2012
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I’m not worried about you. I worried about the carneys! RT @lucyschafer I won’t let you down daddy!! I’m on my best behaviour!
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Hey @lucyschafer and @zoeschafer – stay away from the carneys!
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I think my lips are getting chapped. #FML