Dec
10
Monday Inspiration: Creative Workplaces
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Your workplace and the atmosphere surrounding you determine the way you work and explore your imagination. The more inspirational your workplace is, the easier it is to break the creativity block and discover new ideas. And apparently there is a number of things you can do to improve your personal workflow.
As a part of our [...]
Dec
2
Self-Healing Organic Transistors, Wolverine Electronics [Comic Book Computers]
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Organic transistors are appealing for their cheap manufacture and flexible materials. But often when cooling, misaligned molecules trap electrons that destroy the chips’ bandwidth. A new…
Dec
2
Epcot’s SpaceShip Earth ride was a little dated, so it’s been undergoing a major overhaul. And according to Distant Creations blog, a certain Apple celebrity will be making an appearance. Tinkering…
Dec
2
A Christmas Carol
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Today we received an email from David Hogg, a mini-entrepreneur at the age of 6 ? who runs the family business with his little brother Jake, who is 2 ?. These boys are trying to make this Christmas unforgettable for their new cousin Bin, a deaf 10 y/o Chinese boy that is going to be [...]
Dec
2
Tis the season to build repurpose crazy electrical contraptions for a little merriment. From Peter Terren, the same crazy Aussie who brought you hits like the Tesla “Eye of Sauron Anti-Theft Device”…
Dec
2
Any parent will tell you that the “good cop / bad cop” routine has stood the test of time for one reason: It works.
Do any of these sound familiar?
“You’d better not let mom see you eating that before dinner.”
“You just wait until your father gets home.”
You can exercise authority just by using the suggestion that [...]
Dec
2
You?re Banned.
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As much as we hate to do this, it seems that one of our regular readers just can’t adapt to the rest of the herd and always has something nasty to say. Even if his comment doesn’t sound too bad on its own, there’s usually an underlying tone which just indicates that he can’t play [...]
Dec
2
Divorce360 To Walk You Through That Statistically Inevitable Breakup
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The National Center For Health Statistics (NCHS) says that there are approximately 2.2 million marriages in the U.S. every year. Some of those marriages work out well. But a big percentage of marriages - up to 1.4 million per year - end in divorce.
There are sites that help people plan for marriage, like the $400+ [...]
Dec
2
Steve Jobs (and not Woz) to come to Epcot’s Spaceship Earth
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Disney is renovating the Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot Center and will include Steve Jobs (but not Steve Wozniak) in its animatronic depiction of the history of communications — but not Steve Wozniak, the pioneering hardware virtuoso who created the early Apple computers. [...]
Dec
2
Mr Magoo sez, “Cancer, Schmancer”
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Dan sez, “Hear Mr. Magoo utter the immortal line, ‘Cancer, schmancer!’ in this 1960 animated/live-action short.”
Link
(Thanks, Dan!)
Can’t see the video? Click here
Dec
2
The US has told Britain that it is legal under US law to kidnap British citizens from the UK (ineed, anyone from anywhere) if they are suspected of crimes in the USA — and that this can be done instead of using formal [...]
Dec
2
Woodlands, Texas based startup Insightory is setting its goals high, with the aim to do for management knowledge what Wikipedia has done for general knowledge.
The service itself joins a growing list of document uploading sites that include Scribd and Docstoc, although the company claims that unlike these services Insightory is more targeted and heavily moderated. [...]
Dec
2
The Mo Must Go
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Movember is over!
Thanks to everyone who sponsored me (it’s not too late).
The total donations so far have hit $1847.50 (AUD). That’s got to me about $1 a whisker….
A thanks to everyone who donated - but a special thanks to the ‘premium sponsors’ who each put up $200 or more. They are:
Also a special thanks to [...]
Dec
2
Online Continues To Look Good As Writers Strike Drags On, And On, And On
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The strike by the Writers Guild of America continues to drag on, with the writers this week rejecting a new proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that offered $130m in additional compensation to writers.
The sticking point continues to be compensation for online sales and revenue, with the Writers Guild claiming [...]
Dec
2
Google is usually fairly tight lipped about future product releases. But they were surprisingly revealing about upcoming plans for Google Apps at an event in Ann Arbor earlier this week. Blogger Andrew Miller took some great notes from a presentation by Googler Scott Johnston, the VP of Product Development at wiki startup Jot prior to [...]