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swissmiss: RRRRING
RRRRING by David Billy.
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Versus CluClu Land: O Tempora! O Mores! (pt. 2)
Some folks have lost sight of [functional] differences [and] believe that their choice of console reflects who they are as a person. Such is the power of branding when allied to that tendency which Shaftesbury and Hume called the “spirit of faction.”
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Chief Story Teller | RANDOM RANTINGS
Stevie Spring, CEO of Future Plc (the magazine publisher), recently expressed [what CEOs do] to me in the following way: “I am not really the Chief Executive; I am the Chief Story Teller”

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Tough Times for eBay Entrepreneurs | Business Week
“I suspect that probably about [...] 650K sole [...]

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Big Contrarian → Grok.
At some point, the two agreed on what a “lightbox” was and what applying that to something meant. It might have been a project in their past, or a conversation they had over drinks… some bit of history created a shared pattern between those individu
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Why Analytical Applications Fail: Juice Analytics
more often, users depend on the tool to track down an answer with only a vague idea of where to start. The exploratory analysis that follows can feel like swimming upstream when the application isn’t designed to facilitate the journey.
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potlatch: why Google can’t replace theory
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“The War Prayer” | Mark Twain
You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. [...] You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ [...] Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words.
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FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » How luxury brands can benefit from online communities
We’ve found that companies who allow comments on their own site see a marked increase in conversion to sale. And when given the chance to rate a product or service online, customers are overwhelmingly more positive than negative.
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Michael Bay’s Rejected “The Dark Knight” Script - The Spill.com Movie Community
“We think we’re going to take this in a different direction”
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chewing pixels » Videogames about Videogames: Segagaga
Released at almost the same moment Sega announced its withdrawal from the console manufacturing business, it’s a game about a console-maker on the verge of collapse, made by a console-maker on the verge of collapse.
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The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone [...]

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swissmiss: Renewable Clothing by Fernando Brizio
Within an hour - to one and a half hours the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates a one-off design for each occasion. the owner can then clean the dress and color it in a different way for each time they wear it.
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