Have I told you that Chicago was so amazing?! We were all honored, humbled and oh so excited by the positive reception we received from the attendees of the Craft &...
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We met Ali!
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Cooking Without Alcohol
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I wanted to share with you a brilliant cookbook from professional chef and recovering alcoholic Chef Liz Scott. People in recovery often ask how to make some of the...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Acquisitions
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The world is coming to an end. We know that already.But for a world that is coming to an end, a lot of companies are doing remarkably well. The current crop of earnings...
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Sign Up Forms Must Die
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You load a new web service, eager to dive in and start engaging, and what’s the first thing that greets you? A sign-up form. We can do better, says Luke Wroblewski,...
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"Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" v2
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Credit: Philip M. Parker Parker shows a book being created. Using a little bit of artificial intelligence, a computer program has been created that mimics the...
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Keyhole Markup Language (KML) - Now standardized. Plus some KML/GML debate.
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The Keyhole Markup language (KML) is a means of representing geographic information in a simple XML file making it easy to share map data among different creation and...
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Concentrated Power in a Global Economy - David Rothkopf (Author)
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David Rothkopf, CEO of Garten Rothkopf and author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, mulls over the research in his latest social...
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A Casualty of Asymmetrical Warfare
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The Talking Dog has been covering the legal aspects of the Gitmo story since it started. Now he's on the part where our guests are killing themselves.So far, no flippant...
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What tail is wagging the "user happiness" dog?
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March, 2002: I was in a Quality Review Board meeting at Sun, shortly after our division went Six Sigma. I started listing solution ideas for some big customer problems...
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Heuristic Weight Loss
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I often consult on software process improvement. As part of that, I promote an idea called “heuristic process improvement”. Heuristic process improvement is...
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Bathroom Graffiti
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Next to boogers that men wipe on the walls in front of urinals, the defining characteristic of any bathroom is the kind of graffiti found on its walls. Sure, the boogers...
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MINDSTORMS NXTperts share their expertise at the FLL World Festival
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Along with seeing great robots in competition at the FLL World Festival in Atlanta, Georgia last week, attendees were also able to see live demonstrations from MINDSTORMS...
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The statue of the Little Mermaid
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When you were a kid, surely you read the fairy tale of the Little Mermaid, right? Well, it was written by the famous Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1836. In...
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Singularity of Computing
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Computer Technology is not serving our needs, or if it is, it is vulnerable to failure at every level. Outlined in this article is a clear articulation of the...
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The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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This prequel to the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was abandoned by the author before his death, with the materials eventually culled together into a novel by his son...
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All about Deep Throat
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Bob Woodward’s The Secret Man can be termed as the concluding part of the trilogy (Parts 1 & 2) on the Watergate scandal. Mark Felt, the No.2 man in the FBI was...
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The Ties that Bind
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So Apple started selling music without DRM the other day. I immediately bought some music. Carey commented that she had bought a lot of music on iTunes in the past and...
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Einstein by Walter Isaacson
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Isaacson, author of acclaimed biography "Benjamin Franklin," brings us the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his personal letters and papers have...
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Exhibition casts light on medicine's 'darkest page'
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Medical historian Dr George Weisz, an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New England, has prepared an exhibition on what he calls "the darkest page in the history of...
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An Archer Bereft of Arrows
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Where has Jeffrey Archer's style gone? There was once a punchy, witty style that dominated his work - a style that was likely to be his entirely, setting the mark for...