March 2010
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Integrity is having a matching interior and exterior.
February 2010
59 posts
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“We’re not campaigning anymore John. The election’s over.”
- President Obama
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Yahoo Pact Gives Twitter Distribution, Revenue →
Nice to see Twitter will finally bring in some revenue! This new partnership seems good for Yahoo, but better for Twitter,
“It’s the latest step in Yahoo’s latest strategy, which is to integrate the world’s most popular social networks into the Yahoo environment rather than try to compete with them. The pact is similar to a deal with Facebook announced in December,...
St. Vincent “Actor Out Of Work”
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A Base for War Training, and Species Preservation →
“Even as it conducts round-the-clock exercises to support two wars, Fort Stewart spends as much as $3 million a year on wildlife management, diligently grooming its 279,000 acres to accommodate five endangered species that live here.
The military has not always been so enthusiastic about saving endangered plants and animals…But base commanders have gradually realized that working...
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Throwback: Artful Dodger “Movin’ Too...
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Yes, the Tiger Woods Confession Is Compelling, but... →
“News, it seems, is less and less about what’s important—and more and more about what’s compelling. So it’s fitting that all the major broadcast networks broke into their regularly scheduled programming to carry what is, in fact, a tabloid story—Tiger Woods’s apology—the day after the Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledged that an actual tabloid, The National Enquirer, was eligible for...
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Chariots on Fire →
My oldest friend, Ritz Yagi, just launched a website for her store and company Chariots on Fire. They specialize in jewelery and unusual goods. They are treasure hunters.
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“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Happy Valentine’s Day
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“Failure is an option. Fear is not.”
- James Cameron
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Unpackaged →
“Beginning life as a market stall in 2006, Unpackaged is a unique and brilliant concept that is so simple it hurts, especially considering the sheer amount of packaging waste that is ridiculously filling our planet’s landfill sites. Within the beautifully designed shop, organic whole foods, dried fruit, nuts and seeds, herbs and spices, even refillable oils, vinegars and wines are all...
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Throwback: Dinosaur Jr. “Freak Scene”
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“We are standing at the threshold of runaway climate change and the coming disruptions which most scientists say are inevitable will lead us either into a future of totalitarianism or into a new and unprecedented era of human cooperation.”
- Ross Gelbspan, from his new book “The Heat Is Online”
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R.I.P. Alexander McQueen.
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Does MTV's New Logo Look Too Mainstream? →
MTV has “updated” their iconic logo. Personally, I think it’s a sad thing.
“Music is still at the center of so much of what we do, but we’ve really expanded what that means,” Stephen Friedman, MTV’s general manager, said. “We needed the logo to be flexible enough to have the artists within it but also the stars of our shows. It’s an...
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World's Most Influential Designers →
“Not only is “influential” difficult to measure, but “design” is also nigh on impossible to define neatly. Nonetheless, we decided to put together a list of some of the design world’s most influential movers and shakers. From design thinkers to hands-on design doers in industries from graphics to industrial to auto design, our chosen 27 luminaries represent...
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“The person you love is 72.8% water.”
- Alan Fletcher
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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
- Michelangelo
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Eating Dogs Is No Worse Than Eating Pigs →
“…do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Are they any more or less sentient? Do they suffer any more or less in death? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life? I think not.”
(via The New York Times)
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