January 2011
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December 2010
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Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of... →
Via murketing:
Awesome WSJ story. Read it.
Just look at the Boredom 2010 conference’s logo! Awesome, indeed.
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Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid... →
Via unconsumption:
Mike Rosenwald reports that Amazon has quietly patented a process that intercepts gifts you don’t want and allows you to receive items you actually do want:
Amazon’s innovation, not ready for this Christmas season, includes an option to “Convert all gifts from Aunt Mildred,” the patent says. “For example, the user may specify such a rule because the user believes that this...
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This is cool — museum use of QR Codes:
QRATOR will create new models for public engagement and informal learning in museums using handheld mobile devices and new interactive digital labels.
The project will create small printed tags (QR codes) for museum objects, linked to an online database. These will allow the public to view curated information and, most notably, to send back their own...
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Who Tweets? (new report from the Pew Research... →
Answer: only eight percent of American Internet users.
Related: “half of Twitter users never listen to a word anyone else says.”
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Survey Shows Overall Giving During 2010 Holiday... →
Online giving alone is estimated to account for more than $6 billion, an increase of more than 30 percent from the same period in 2009.
Encouraging news for the non-profit sector.
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How many babies were conceived during the Great...
Via washingtonpoststyle:
We’re guessing zero. It’s a geekscape out here, after all.
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An Inside Look at Google Doodlers →
Via emphasisadded:
“They are unknown, but their works of art are seen by hundreds of millions of people across the globe. They were art nerds in school - teased by peers or called to the principal’s office for doodling in class - but are now working at one of the world’s most important companies.” [SFGate // full article here]
I LOVE the Google doodles! Art crush-of-the-day; no competition.
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NPR: Hanukkah's Historic Roots In...Cincinnati? →
Via npr:
Hanukkah, which begins this evening, has its roots in an ancient Jewish revolt against the Syrians. But the fact that we celebrate it the way we do today has its roots in, of all places, Cincinnati:
There is nearly no record of people celebrating Hanukkah just a couple of centuries ago. But it began to be an important Jewish holiday in the second half of the 19th century when two...