Here is my advice to all small business owners: there are good times & there are bad times you just have to ride it out. There are times when I don’t make as much money as usual. The downside to this is that I still need to spend as much money as usual. So, I try to get stuff for free. I heard about MSN Live Search Club back in July. I ordered a roomba 530 series in December & it just arrived today. The roomba came with a rechargeable battery, dock, extra filter, some round thing that
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The power of digital technology fundamentally transforms our lives. Materiality is being technically extended. The digital offers another variety of artifacts that impact remembrance. While expanding our experience, some things also get lost along the path to de-materialization. For the contextual area of my general exams I research on the attachments to physical, digital and virtual objects. I explore the psychological trade-off between what we call virtual and tangible “attachments”: I focus
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And around $100, it may be the most expensive too! But come on, it’s R2D2, man! The only thing that would make this cooler is if it doubled as a trash compactor with swiss army knife attachments. From Urban Outfitters: “Remember when Luke and Leia and the gang were stuck in that trash-compactor aboard the Death Star? And the walls were closing in and there was some kind of gross muck monster down there and everything? Well, remember how R2D2 hacked into the computer system and stopped the
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I’m not much of a hacker. Okay, so I’m not a hacker at all, but it sure would be nice to possess some techie skills in order to modify, manipulate, or reconfigure a piece of hardware to my satisfaction. Until then, I’m leaving hardware hacks to the seasoned pros, like the ones I recently researched while battling the Flu. These 10 impressive projects involve hacking items like an Etch A Sketch, Roomba, iPhone, and a Game Boy, and transforming them into killer, if not better, products. Check out
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The Long Blondes came together through a series of chance encounters. Kate (lips), Dorian (licks), Reenie (hips), Screech (sticks) and Emma (high kicks) bumped into each other at public library counters, charity shop sale rails and the dancefloors of DIY club nights. It was deliciously inevitable that this lot would get together and form a band. The Long Blondes are the part of the next chapter of Sheffields idiosyncratic musical heritage: the suburban disco fantasies of the Human League, the op
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Fast Company’s current issue delivers the magazine’s own ranking of the world’s most innovative companies. You can actually discuss the ranking and cast your vote for the “Reader Favorites” list through April 15. http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_08/index.html Discussion group: http://www.fastcompany.com/group/fast-50 [1] Google [2] Apple [3] Facebook [4] General Electric [5] Ideo [6] Nike [7] Nokia [8] Alibaba [9] Amazon [10] Nintendo [11] Procter & Gamble [12] News Corp. [13] Af
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The greatest invention ever is cleaning my floors right now! yup, I finally got a scooba! Juliane has a roomba and Judy has both! So I found a place that had a price I could live with and wow. The thing is going right now…sweeping and mopping the kitchen and my scrap area! This is truly the greatest invention ever!!!
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