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Ai is hiring senior staff.. take a look
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“and a coffee pot full of urine”
Page 62 of 129
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A must-read for everyone who’s never clicked on the Twitter link in my sidebar
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…except when playing Scrabulous, of course
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The 80/20 effect at its worst: 80% of online users completely ignore display advertising (although we kind of knew that already, didn’t we)
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“A college boyfriend begged her to stop wearing her favorite perfume, Angel by Thierry Mugler, which emits a scent not unlike chocolate fondue”
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Dating the Google Maps satellite views: this image predates the construction of 26 Astor’s “sculpture for living” (the building opened in 2005)
In November I began tracking, and unsubscribing from, the many unwanted catalogs that came to my home. Today I entered the first batch of 2008 catalogs I received, 10 in all in the past seven weeks. Among the offenders: two catalogs from which I’ve opted out which hit me again with a new customer ID number, requiring me to opt out all over again.
Catalogs, in a word, are spam: 100 glossy printed resource-wasting pieces of spam, each one worse than a thousand junk emails. The spam is filterable; the catalogs are wasteful long before I see them. Here’s to hoping Catalog Choice does its job.
The original post is up to date and will continue to be updated.
Consolidating the last few del.icio.us link posts:
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I love posts like this
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All true, all true
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I’ll be at a conference the rest of this week, posting thoughts on the fly via Twitter. Full details at this link
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Mom and Dad are extra proud!
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I had a website idea like this not long ago.. interesting to see if it works
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Fascinating (and obvious, if you watched this weekend’s tournament)
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OK, I admit it: Guitar Hero 3 introduced me to this song. And I can’t stop listening to it
Shiloh Baptist Church is a 69,000-square-foot facility housing a 100-year-old congregation of African-American Baptists in Plainfield, New Jersey.
In short, exactly not the place you’d expect to find two pale Manhattan Jews on a Sunday morning.
Yet that’s where we were, as my wife and I attended the dedication ceremony of an old friend’s son yesterday. Impeccably dressed and smiling, we attracted curious, friendly gazes from ushers the instant we walked in, then sat down in the balcony to watch the service.
This was my first Baptist experience of any color, and frankly, it was pretty great. Shiloh’s pastor is expressive and upbeat, and the congregation participates vocally and cheerfully.
The whole service was a visual and aural treat. The pastor was loud and soft, happy and sad, unfailingly optimistic. The sterotypical “get a witness” and “amen” utterances were in full effect. People clapped, waved, assented, took notes during the power-of-positive-thinking sermon. A farewell ceremony to a retiring volunteer nearly moved the pastor to tears (“Can I get a tissue before I cry up here? … thank you God amen”). The choir, 40-strong and accompanied by a three piece band—organ, drums, sax—sang with smiles and moved in unison.
At the end of the regular service, the baby’s dedication was called, and our entire party marched down from the balcony to stand in front of the pulpit, in solidarity and ceremony with the family. I felt, well, white. But I also felt proud and warm to have been invited and participated in the ceremony. The pastor knows my friends and has an obvious love for children. He wore a huge, genuine smile throughout the dedication as he held the baby. The rest of us did, too.
After the service, we all went to lunch, where I met up with my gang, the first time in a long while that we’ve all been somewhere together. We toasted the baby, saw each other’s kids, congratulated one another on new jobs and promotions and pregnancies, and made plans to do it again, for the Super Bowl this coming weekend.
Congratulations, then, to Jerome Lonnie Jones III, and to his parents and grandparents, who have brought their first child into a wonderfully loving existence. I could hardly imagine a more uplifting day.
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Want
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This MP3 is amazing (via waxy.org)
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need to investigate
My business and tech blogging moved to AIAIO, the Alexander Interactive company blog, last month. I’m going to periodically cross-post links and follow-up thoughts on those items in this space. Recent pieces:
Pricing right—a pair of recent articles on price show that consumers are smart… except when they’re letting themselves be influenced.
Next-gen ecomm—with the explosion of iPhones and increasing wireless high-bandwidth access, mobile ecommerce is going to be the hot phrase of 2008.
Accessibility design—it’s like 2000 all over again! Except now, instead of discussing Netscape vs. Internet Explorer, it’s whether or not we accommodate 800×600 user screens.
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It’s officially a trend
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Post by Nick Denton. How many other CEOs of companies with eight-figure revenue streams would post gossip items about gay weathermen?
Empanadas at Williams-Sonoma, via their website: eight “ready to serve” pastries on sale for $29.99, originally $49.99, plus tax and shipping, and a few days for delivery and defrosting.
Empanadas at Ruben’s Empanadas in Manhattan: $3.50 each, or eight for $28 plus a tip for the deliveryman, for freshly made, piping-hot empanadas.
I wonder why Williams-Sonoma needs a clearance sale for theirs.
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Now a major motion picture, opening Feb. 22! I have fond memories of seeing this play on Broadway, and getting kugel from the concession stand at intermission