May 2011
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May 30th
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“I love reading others’ Facebook Place entries — it helps to short...”
May 30th
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.” — Margaret Thatcher
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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“There are too many shoddy, unconsidered things in the world already. Given the...”
– WHAT IS DESIGN? A Manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 by Project Projects (via viafrank)
May 27th
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WatchWatch
Reblogged curiositycounts: Kalimat – intriguing new magazine offering a fresh look at modern Arab thought and culture. A fine complement to Cultural Connectives.
May 23rd
Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds |... →
gregmelander: “In a new study of crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers — researchers told test participants about their peers’ guesses. As a result, their group insight went awry.” You can see this effect in any viral social media such as Twitter,...
May 19th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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Venturesome Consumers and Innovative Consumption →
May 16th
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May 14th
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“I will always produce less than demand. If I do more, I would destroy the brand....”
– Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Chairman, Ferrari
May 14th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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Nissan NV200 Selected as New York City's Taxi of...
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission selected Nissan to design and supply the next-generation ‘Taxi of Tomorrow.’ http://www.dexigner.com/23002 [via Dexigner iPhone App]
May 9th
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“The worst a client can say is “no, thank you”.”
May 4th
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“The first image of bin Laden that the White House may show us is ‘bloody and...”
– Philip Gourevitch on why we should not release the bin Laden photographs (via newyorker)
May 3rd
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