January 2011
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If anyone understands this, it’s Erin Alderette, the longtime mayor of the...
– when i bumped her, she accused me (on twitter) of using my investor status to get the mayoralty. i told her that i had earned it fair and square and she needed to go to the gym more often. then i followed her on foursquare and twitter. a week later, she had it back and pulled away from there.
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A job-killing plan for arts and culture? →
Via hydeordie:
If you gave me a buck, and next year I returned $18.75 to you, would you think that was a good deal? I would. With savings accounts, money markets and even stocks yielding just a few percentage points on investments these days, a return in excess of 18% is pretty staggering. Yet, that’s what happens with federal support for arts and culture. It pays for itself 18 times over....
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Music matters:
Conductorcise: Exercise through music
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You ask yourself: Is this thing worth hauling 6,000 miles across an ocean and in...
– Interesting thought, quoted by Core77 in this item on Tsh Oxenreider’s “Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living.” For Oxenreider, a big move (from Texas to the Middle East) was “a stake in the ground for us…. From that moment forward [we] became hyper-selective about...
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What a terrible irony that her husband can go into space in a capsule and return...
– Eleanor Clift on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Newsweek. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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File under "You can't make this stuff up":
“The Coast Guard says a nearly one-mile stretch of the Houston Ship Channel will be closed for at least four days as workers use pitchforks and fishnets to corral, pierce and remove 15,000 gallons of beef fat.” (Emphasis mine.)
(via Chron.com - Houston Chronicle)
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Not surprisingly, two related, overarching themes — technology and mobile — dominate JWT’s 100 things to watch in 2011 (slideshow).
Related (earlier) post: 10 trends for 2011
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