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Jan 1st

“A friend of mine told me that when his sons were five and three years old, they...”

– Gretchen Rubin, in The Happiness Project, a great book on how to live you life with more happiness in it (via fred-wilson)

Dec 31st

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Dec 22nd

Dec 21st

Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author«... →

secretpamplemousse: booklover: nihilnoetia:(via bridgettelizabeth), J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in (duh). Stephanie Meyer People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3 <3. J.K. Rowling Smart geeks. Jeffrey Eugenides Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger. Jonathan Safran Foer 30somethings who were cool when they were 20something. Jodi Picoult Your mom...

Dec 18th

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Wow. Who knew hand models could make up to $10,000 a day. newsweek: “In the world of commercial modeling, there’s always been a niche for the handsome-handed: pizzas that needed pulling, beers that needed pouring, and cheeks that needed stroking, by mitts that could endure a sharp-focus close-up. But the recent boom in high-tech gadgetry, from iPhones to Kindles, has meant big paydays and...

Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 15th

“7. Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You...”

– 10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to (via peterwknox) (via mikehudack) Ha. (via newsweek)

Dec 14th

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A short course on surviving the web:

soupsoup: by Merlin Mann Thing is: the internet’s made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It’s what’s there. That’s the basic equipment. Everything’s amplified. Except subtlety. Say things you believe are true. No one understands; no one cares. Never explain yourself. Apologize less; think more. Avatars aren’t people; people aren’t avatars; “friends” aren’t friends. Everyone thinks...

Dec 13th

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Dec 12th

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26th Story Word Cloud

Wordle.net is a really fun internet toy that makes word clouds from text on your site. Here’s what it did with www.26thstory.com:

Dec 12th

Personalized books from SharedBook →

Dec 10th

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A Great Holiday Gift Idea

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with Caroline Vanderlip, the CEO of a company called SharedBook. Among the many fabulous things SharedBook can do, is personalize a book for a customer. The process for the publisher is crazy easy: I gave her the file and the jacket, we decided upon a price, and voila, Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk was available a day later as a personalized option for...

Dec 10th

Barnes and Noble’s Nook Reader Fails to Live Up to... →

oy kratlee: marco: David Pogue’s review: Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions comes fraught with buzz kill footnotes. Later: Now, the Nook may have some hardware advantages — a removable battery, a memory-card slot and (because of narrower plastic margins) a slightly trimmer shape — but the Kindle is still a better machine. It’s faster, thinner, lighter and much easier to figure...

Dec 10th

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