May 2012
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April 2012
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Homeboy Industries Reboots The Lives Of Tattooed... →
Fantastic and inspiring article about Homeboy Industries in LA, its mission of “jobs not jails,” and the intersection of charity and business.
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13 Simple Steps To Get You Through A Rough Day →
This is important
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March 2012
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The Young Foodie Culture -- New York Magazine →
Read this! Food is the new indie rock. Love it.
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The "Mad Men" Reading List | The New York Public... →
Loving this. A Mad Men reading list from the NY Public Library— every book that appears in each episode.
I know what I’ll be using to fuel my spring reading in the park.
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February 2012
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Las Vegas: Startup City - Businessweek →
Fascinating. Can’t wait to see how this turns out!
Tony Hsieh, the soft-spoken chief executive officer of shoe and apparel site Zappos.com (a division of Amazon.com) (AMZN) wants to turn the often overlooked and economically depressed downtown area into a dense urban neighborhood teeming with artists, entrepreneurs, and Internet workers. It’s one of the most unconventional redevelopment...
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Callin' Oates →
Call this hotline now: 719-266-2837
Srsly. This is an emergency.
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New Fashion Week Taxis Let You Buy While You Ride →
Ok, so it’s not the Cash Cab, but it’s still a free ride. I’m in!
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The Noun Project →
I cannot believe how amusing and useful this is! A growing catalog of all the world’s nouns represented in simple, visual icons.
There is a clear icon for everything from “food bank” to “bully” to “sloth” (sloth!!)
January 2012
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GM’s Smart Windows Let You Interact With The World... →
Whoa. Interactive, touch screen glass for backseat windows.
Yet more evidence we are creating a new generation who will never understand what it’s like to have to entertain themselves…
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Profile: Effie Trinket
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EFFIE TRINKET
HER TRIBUTES AREN’T THE ONLY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.
With a keen eye towards cutting edge trends and a willingness to break boundaries, Capitol-born style icon and District 12 Escort Effie Trinket has been a fashion pioneer since her very first Hunger Games. She has been known to take the iconic building blocks of contemporary Capitol fashion...
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“I’m a working-class American living in a middle-sized city in 2012, which...”
– A Nice Reminder — Grub Street New York
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Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World’s... →
Looks like I might be part of the 1% after all…
Sent from my iPhone
December 2011
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Hot Buttered Rum Recipe →
Garden & Gun magazine, you’re full of great suggestions. I believe I’ll follow this hot buttered rum one..
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WatchThe life of an ornament. So poetic. So inevitably tragic.
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Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts -... →
Ummm, you may want to grab a kleenex for this one…
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November 2011
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Air Fare: 47 Places to Eat When You’re Inevitably... →
Just in time for holiday travel—a list of the best airport restaurants!
It’s embarrassing how many of these establishments have served me a lonely, layover cocktail…
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Pizza As A Vegetable? It Depends On the Sauce :... →
Turns out pizza is a vegetable when it comes to school lunches… What’s not clear from this story— whether or not elementary school children are actually the ones writing these laws. Because this certainly can’t have come from a thinking adult…
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Light-Emitting Earphones Can Cure Winter Blues... →
Winter is around the corner, and it’s going to be bleak. I’m buying these before the New York SAD hits like a ton of designer bricks
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Coming soon to a shelf near you: Bud Light... →
And just like that, the word “platinum” loses all meaning…
Anheuser-Busch InBev said Wednesday that it plans to add another brand to its light beer stable: Bud Light Platinum. … Platinum will contain 6 percent alcohol by volume, compared with 4.2 percent in standard Bud Light.
…The beer is the latest in a line of “innovations,” for Bud Light, chief executive...
October 2011
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Uh, Wanted? Harvard Prof Invents A Caffeine... →
Need this, need this, need this. It’s usefulness totally overrides its mild creepiness!
Aeroshot Pure Energy is a slim, pocket-sized tube that works like an asthma inhaler. Puff gently, and the tube releases a light powder that dissolves instantly in your mouth. Each Aeroshot contains 100 milligrams of caffeine, roughly equivalent to a tall mocha at Starbucks. Unlike a Starbucks mocha,...
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