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The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters (21 November 05:45) |
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What Do Presidential Libraries Say About Their Namesakes Legacies (21 November 05:30) |
| Part of the point of a presidential library is that it's a monument to a
leader's legacy--his style, his enduring affect on the world, even
his reading habits...or lack thereof. Speaking of ... |
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Drive a Mercedes with Your iPhone and Nine Other Mind-Blowing Stories This Week on Fast Company (21 November 05:15) |
| Mind-blowing phrase of the week: "interferometric modulation," which can be loosely translated as "Oh my God! Qualcomm’s Mirasol e-reader has color video!" Mercedes Benz unveiled an app th... |
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ComScores New Study Finds Dope on Movie Junkies (21 November 05:00) |
| Research group comScore released its study on "movie junkies" yesterday that surveyed the behavior of 500,000 moviegoers who bought tickets online in September 2009. Some of the highlights:
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Workers Under Threat Blamefest Stunts Innovation [Ed Note Who Wrote This Headline] (21 November 04:00) |
| If the chart above is giving you flashbacks to your last roundtable, chances are you've been blamed for something before. Was it your fault? Doesn't matter. Others in the room are like... |
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Study Says Compressed Air Cars Are a Pipe Dream--Focus on EVs (21 November 03:30) |
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Compressed air cars are the ultimate romantic vision of our transportation future. A car powered by air? What could be better than that? A lot of things, it turns out. According to "Economi... |
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Ad With Dying Computer-Animated Polar Bears Stirs Controversy (21 November 03:00) |
| What does shock marketing do for a problem as big as global warming?
How far is too far, in the effort to teach the public about global warming?
A U.K. group called Plane Stupid is drawing... |
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Can Chegg Beat the Kindle at the Textbook Game (21 November 02:30) |
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The Kindle may be the king of e-readers, but it has a long way to go before being accepted as an acceptable replacement for textbooks. When Amazon's device was introduced at Princeton for c... |
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Friday Fun Eight Ways to Kill an Idea (21 November 02:30) |
| Don't do it!
By Scott Campbell[Via Flirting with the Clouds]
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Infographic of the Day The Brains vs Beauty Quandry (21 November 02:00) |
| Everyone understands the various categories displayed in this Venn diagram.
In hunting for a partner or a fling, we all known the trade-offs between beauty and brains. But we've never before... |
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Can Protein Sciences Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine in Time Update Likely No (21 November 01:30) |
| UPDATE: A FDA advisory panel has ruled that Protein Sciences' insect cell-based flu vaccine requires more safety tests before being made commercially available in the U.S. The panel said the... |
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SocialCycling Turns Unrecyclable Products Into Usable Items (21 November 01:00) |
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We write a lot about upcycling, or the practice of reusing products for new purposes to prevent waste. Now DMD Green, an environmental management consulting company, wants to make the proce... |
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Intels Mind-Reading Chips Replace Your Mouse With Your Brain (21 November 12:30) |
| You know those neat mind-control toys? Well, Intel has some grand plans for mind control that go far beyond their limited power. By 2020, the company's researchers plan to have chips that le... |
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Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilights Edward Cullen But It for $33M! (21 November 12:00) |
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Must every facet of Twilight's sparly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pat... |
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Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilights Edward Cullen Buy It for $33M! (21 November 12:00) |
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Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert ... |
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Nendo Brings Minimalist Magic to New Issey Miyake Shop (20 November 11:30) |
| The shops furniture evokes shopping carts, in a beautifully funky way.Last week, we brought you a slideshow highlighting a new exhibit of works by Oki Sato, the founder of Nendo. Today, Nend... |
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Tim Burton at the Museum of Modern Art (20 November 11:00) |
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Looking for New Homes Googles Got an App for That Too (20 November 10:30) |
| Remember that news about Google kind of getting into the mortgage game? New news means it looks like the search giant is serious about getting into helping you buy homes--Google's quietly pu... |
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Design Nirvana Lego Teams Up with Muji (20 November 10:00) |
| Lego has launched thousands of young designers into a lifetime of tinkering; Muji is a paragon of clean, ingenious design. So naturally, the two have paired up for toy sets that blend ... |
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Get Your Hands Dirty (20 November 09:30) |
| Twenty-five years ago, I decided to quit my day job as a partner and creative director for a small advertising agency, which I had started four years prior, to get back into design, from whe... |
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Watch Out Apple Amazon Qualcomms E-Reader Will Play Color Video (20 November 09:00) |
| E-readers may or may not emerge as the must-have gadget of 2010, but nearly all the devices out now have a problem--their screens only do gray scale, and move too slowly for video. But Qualc... |
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Ask the Headhunter QA Should I Take a Cut in Pay (20 November 08:30) |
| Q: I've been unemployed for six weeks. Was earning around $120k. Have been offered a position at $85k and, quite frankly, I need the money. Even more important, I recognize that my self este... |
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The Eco-Conscious Thanksgiving Menu Now Serving Greens! (20 November 08:00) |
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The hidden cost of overeating on Thanksgiving isn't just an expanding waistline; it's fatter carbon footprint, too. Studies show that most groceries travel about 1,500 miles from the farm ... |
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IBM Technology Offers Real-Time Analysis of Forest Fires (20 November 07:30) |
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Climate change has increased the unpredictability of weather patterns, and as residents of the Western U.S. know, that means a jump in the number of forest fires. In the past year alone, 76... |
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Todays Vision of Tomorrow Digital Music From Mobile Pandora Sonys iTunes Rival (20 November 07:00) |
| Digital music turned the recording industry upside down several times already, and given the amazing rate of change it's going to keep evolving dramatically. A couple of news items today poi... |
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Tequila Timeline From Agave to the Worm (20 November 06:30) |
| One tequila, two tequila, three tequila ... floor! Nothing can make a night -- or a year -- disappear quite like the agave-fueled Mexican liquor. Jose Cuervo is still No. 1 on the market, th... |
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GoodGuide iPhone App Scans Bar Codes for Environmental and Heath Ratings (20 November 06:00) |
| When I first learned about GoodGuide last March, I was excited at the prospect of a Web site that lets consumers get detailed environmental, health, and social info on more than 50,000 produ... |
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Microsoft Opens Surface Interactive Table SDK for Free (20 November 06:00) |
| Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the ... |
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The Enduring Genius of Dieter Rams (20 November 05:30) |
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Gushing About LAs Cleverly-Disguised Urban Oil Fields (20 November 05:00) |
| Anyone who arrives at Los Angeles International Airport is immediately introduced to our oil wells, a series of slow-moving creatures nodding throughout the hills heading down into the basin... |
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How to Write a Book Proposal That Sells (20 November 04:30) |
| Since Viral Loop hit bookstores a month ago, I've chronicled the Viral Loop Facebook application that was designed to spread and accompany the iPhone app to promote the book, my social Web m... |
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Hara Scores Big With News Corp Energy Management Deal (20 November 04:00) |
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Earlier this week we designated Hara as one of our 10 green startups to watch, and now the company has hit it big with a deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The environmental and energy m... |
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The Gunn Reports Most Decorated Ads Include Interactive for the First Time (20 November 03:30) |
| The 2009 Gunn Report tallies ad awards from around the world, and presents the ones that have won the most.
The 2009 Gunn Report, an encyclopedia of the world's highly decorated ads, is out... |
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One-Hour Furniture Godspeed Makes Its Pieces in Under 60 Minutes (20 November 03:00) |
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You can get a lot of things in a little under an hour. A pizza. A haircut. How about a chair? The designers at Godspeed have condensed the often agonizingly long development phase of indust... |
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YouTube Now Reads Your Lips for Automatic Captions Kinda (20 November 02:30) |
| Depending on your needs, and how you look on them, YouTube's embedded captions are either extremely useful, or an irritating extra that people abuse, distracting you from the video. The good... |
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Clients from Hell The Problem With Design Its the Clients Not the Designers (20 November 02:00) |
| A new blog that any designer can sympathize with. Maybe the toughest thing about being a designer is suffering the idiocy of your clients. Clients From Hell gives designers a much-needed pla... |
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Chrome OS is Still Not an Attack on Windows (20 November 01:45) |
| Google's OS was sneak peeked today at the Googleplex. The Wall Street Journal digital called it a "direct challenge to Microsoft Windows." Really? Let's clear up some confusion once and for ... |
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How to Win Business (20 November 01:30) |
| Paul Venables, 30 Second MBA faculty-member and ad man, on what makes a company succeed and how a leader instills success.I have an ad agency. It does great work. It's a fun place to work. G... |
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Infographic of the Day 30 Free Web Sites for Online Promotion (20 November 01:00) |
| A chart mapping the social networking, free-marketing ecosystem.
Web 2.0 is changing the nature of advertising and marketing--no news
there. But any would-be social marketer is now deluged w... |
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The Top Ten Meeting Personalities (20 November 12:30) |
| At Premiere Global Services, we conduct A LOT of meetings each day. 82,000 to be exact. Whether online, over the phone, or in person, keeping people engaged and productive during a meeting i... |
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IBM Simulates the Inner Workings of a Cat Brain AI or Shadow Minds for Humans (20 November 12:30) |
| IBM's new cat brain simulation is both more -- and less -- than it seems.
A real-time computer-simulated cat brain? Could IBM have come up with a project more likely to trigger Internet exci... |
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Hank Risan on BlueBeats $20 Million Gambleon 25-Cent Beatles Tracks (20 November 12:00) |
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Bluebeat founder Hank Risan says he sank $20 million into an effort to revolutionize digital music delivery. But he flushed it all the day he offered Beatles tracks for a quarter a pop, a j... |
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Dutch Break Ground on Fruit Cake–Looking Building Just in Time for Holidays (19 November 11:30) |
| The walls of arching market hall will double as apartment buildings.
The Dutch architecture firm MVRDV--#5 on our list of Most Creative People in Architecture--has just broken ground on one... |
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Mike Rowe How Do You Know Innovation When You See It (19 November 11:00) |
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Six Decades of Monumental Architecture Skidmore Owings Merrill (19 November 10:30) |
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CE Association on California HDTV Ban Its Stupid We Agree (19 November 10:00) |
| The Consumer Electronics Association has publicly reacted to California legislators' ban on inefficient TVs by saying "You're all dumb, with about the same grasp on technology as Homer Simps... |
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Apple Execs Backyard Is Designed for Barfing (19 November 09:30) |
| An Apple exec's avant-garde housing experiment.
When you think of backyards, the first things you probably think: Dogs woofing, July 4th grilling, swingsets. Then again, you're not a senior ... |
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St Louis Gets Its High Line Citygarden Sculpture Park (19 November 09:00) |
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St. Louis has tried everything to invigorate its urban core: Revitalizing its riverfront entertainment district, luring residents downtown with converted-warehouse lofts, a new baseball sta... |
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Apple Tablet Delayed but With OLED Screen and Condé Nast Mags (19 November 08:30) |
| Whee, the Apple Tablet merry-go-round spins and spins: Today adds a clutch of rumors that, if you grapple them all together, are another quietly confident tick in the "it's definitely real" ... |
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Novomers Plastic Reduces Greenhouse Gas-But Will it Biodegrade (19 November 08:00) |
| Photograph Courtesy of NovomerNovomer's innovation cuts most of the oil and guilt.Photograph Courtesy of NovomerPlastics are a favorite target for environmentalists because they're slow to b... |
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