January 2012
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Call for Submissions: What's Your Favorite Tumblr?
timemagazine:
At TIME.com, we’re working on a guide to the best Tumblrs out there. But we want to know what you think first.
What Tumblr can’t you live without? (Aside from ours, of course.) Whether it’s news, photography, design or just cat videos, we want to know what you follow — and why.
Reply to this post (and include the URL) with your picks. We’ll mark popular suggestions as “Readers’...
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December 2011
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WatchThe “Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter“ documentary, which premiered last night on PBS, is now available online.
If you’re not able to view the video above, click here to watch the film.
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Is It Crazy For Parents To Choose A Unique Baby... →
utnereader:
When it comes to Twitter handles, @JohnSmith and @JaneSmith are obviously taken. So if you’re a brand new parent-to-be and you’re stuck with the common surname “Smith”, you’ve got to get pretty creative with your baby’s first name if you want him or her to grow up with a unique social footprint. But is that really something you should be thinking about between Lamaze classes?...
November 2011
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October 2011
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The Uncollection: Looking for DIY/Crafty Creators...
unconsumption:
A quick note about the Uncollection project that’s been gradually unfolding here on the Unconsumption Tumblr.
As many of you know, we’ve invited a series of our favorite crafty creators to reuse our Mr. Cart Logo in original projects — rebranding existing stuff, as an experiment subverting the whole “brand” concept to give new value to old things. Lately our contributors’...
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“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
– Steve Jobs’s last words, according to his sister Mona. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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Newsweek: Oh, Daily Beast, get a copy editor. →
benita:
benita:
My friend Jordan sent me this email today: What’s wrong with this subject line?
————— Forwarded message ————— From: The Daily Beast <emails@thedailybeast.com> Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:42 PM Subject: Cheat Sheet - Hedge-Fund Boss Gets His Just Deserts To: Jordan
My…
“Well, since you asked…
From the Newsweek/Daily Beast Copy Desk: “To quote from the dictionary...
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“The average US consumer is never more than 3 feet away from their phone. The...”
– Stephanie Tilenius, Google’s VP of Commerce, cited in The End of Bricks and Mortar Retail As We Know It (via stoweboyd)
September 2011
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August 2011
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Window-Dressing the West Village and MePa for... →
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If you Google “Should I tape my windows for a hurricane?,” the internet will tell you “No.” Here’s FEMA, for example: ”Tape does not prevent windows from breaking.” Still, New Yorkers have seen everyone else do it in countless Gulf hurricanes, so we weren’t going to pass up our rare…
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Customers, restaurants, and tweets
So this Twitter-fueled situation happened on Sunday night in Houston:
Restaurant [Down House Houston] Ejects Diner for Tweeting While Eating — Eating Our Words blog | HoustonPress.com
Now it’s heartening to read about a different restaurant-related incident that took place, again thanks to Twitter, last night in the New York City area:
The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever...