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This Blog Sits at the: Everything I know about management I learned from TV The secret is Gibbs' perfect balance. He is impatient with anything less than perfection even as he manages to indulge the playfulness and eccentricities of his crew. It's a fine line. Call this the perfect management style. (tags: cultureby management television […]

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The Coolness Index « Music Machinery There’s overlap between the two lists: Avril, Britney, Katy, Nelly, Taylor, Rihanna, along with the Disney crowd. Again, there seems to be an anti-female coolness bias on the list. It is hard to be cool and female. (tags: music pop stats last.fm data cool statistics musicmachinery )

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CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Evening Standard Says Sorry "This poster campaign seeks to signal the changes on the way by apologising for various perceived sins, including complacency, predictability and the afore-mentioned negativity. None of the posters mention the newspaper by name, but simply carry its Eros logo." — I'd thought there was […]

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Last.fm Fan Finder [by Dinosaurs Eat Everybody] "Fans of artists similar to your band should be fans of your band, right? Last.fm Fan Finder helps find users who are listening to artists similar to your band, but aren't listening to you." – a nice way of looking at a "backwards" recommendation system. (tags: last.fm music […]

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tweenbots | kacie kinzer Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, […]

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adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » Toy abuse for fun and (non)profit There’s also going to be a button inside his paw, which will rebase the scale to the current value of the market – so squeezing his paw will switch the LEDs back to yellow, and then they’ll change colour the next […]

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MySQL Showdown: Querious vs. Sequel Pro – TheAppleBlog (tags: opensource apple theappleblog software osx database sql development )

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David Mitchell: Ignore these witches, Mrs Burnham | Comment is free | The Observer The whole Academy Awards palaver must be the most long-winded method of disseminating a tiny amount of information that has ever been devised. Staying up to watch them is about as efficient a way of finding out the results as building […]

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The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler's Unsung Hero "I knew how Aronofsky was planning to work it in to the story but seeing it done was completely different. The way [Rourke] looked when he asked D'Leo to play, the whole back and forth about COD4, it really gave the feeling that Randy was living […]

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slightlyfoxed: Dad's nose. Mum's eyes. The Conservative Party's chutzpah. "It positions Gordon Brown as some kind of sinister interloper in the inheritance of the child – genes from Mummy, genes from Daddy, random bad stuff from WHO IS THIS MAN? What has he to do with the FAMILY UNIT (which is two-parent and closely biologically […]

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