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The Obama campaign may have just pulled off the most cost-effective Get Out the Vote (GOTV) program in history!
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- Me on the Mobile Commons blog
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In most poor jurisdictions there is a simple method of saving for old age. Have six kids. They will have a few each and if you survive there will be lots of grandkids trained to respect their elders who will look after you.
This does not work in China. Indeed if everyone has only one child there will potentially be four grandparents per grandchild. You can’t expect to get supported. ” - John Hempton
This does not work in China. Indeed if everyone has only one child there will potentially be four grandparents per grandchild. You can’t expect to get supported. ” - John Hempton
If you’re ever waiting to pick someone up at the Portland, ME airport, I recommend the L.L. Bean trout tank. It even has some of those bubbles so you can go nose to nose with the fish.
Also, I think iPhone photography is fun—kind of like using a Holga.
Yang Wei, All-Around Gymnastics Gold Medal Winner in Beijing, 2008.
That is a determined face. Photographer: Amy Sancetta for the AP
Christine Young & her paper cuts
Why Apple doesn't do "Concept Products"
Why hasn’t Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, real artists ship.
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Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
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Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me
Dangerous song to listen to while biking in Manhattan.
Ryan McGinley photographs Olympic Swimmers for the NY Times via totes
Betty Draper : Serena van der Woodsen ::
January Jones : Blake Lively?
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There is also the question of competitive advantage. Most nations gain their advantage by making things more efficiently, and at lower cost, than their competitors.
To the extent that the French enjoy a natural advantage, it is in their inefficiency: They are the world’s most efficient producers of structured indolence. They are the kept women of the global economy; their status depends, in part, on their practical uselessness. ” - Michael Lewis, Sarkozy Forces the French to Join the 1980s
To the extent that the French enjoy a natural advantage, it is in their inefficiency: They are the world’s most efficient producers of structured indolence. They are the kept women of the global economy; their status depends, in part, on their practical uselessness. ” - Michael Lewis, Sarkozy Forces the French to Join the 1980s
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