Which biz name wins the prize?
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links for 2009-09-30
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Ken Ashford points out a YouTube video about a robotic pancake stacker. He's right that it's weirdly compelling.
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Interesting aerial photo of some German farmers protesting low milk prices by spraying milk on a field. My buddy Bobby, who works in the milk industry and who's been dealing with NC farmers who are suffering due to low prices here, will probably find this interesting.
links for 2009-09-29
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I think I might add these to my x-mas wish list.
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Seth Godin makes some good points about Craigslist and in my mind he shines the light on the path that local newspapers could take to regaining some of their lost classified revenue.
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Tufts University creates a rule about college kids doing the dirty while their roommates are in the room. I believe hell hath frozen.
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Picture in this story shows the exact cause of our power outage at the house last night. That tree on the powerline on Dull Road is probably a 1/2 mile from our house by car, and less as the crow flies. The house they reference in the story is two doors down from ours on Concord Church. I'm really thankful no one was in it.
Yep, I Think It Was a Twister
Whatever it was, tornado or microburst, it tore a path through the woods down the block. One of our neighbors had an oak fall on their house. Scary.
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Tree Down in the Neighborhood
This is a tree that fell just down the street from our house.
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links for 2009-09-28
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This is probably a good gift idea for my oldest son who's a pen afficianado. Pens that write anywhere, anyhow (upside down even) and are easily stowable.
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Creative idea to communicate a position on climate change: "To bring more attention to the climate change in the arctic regions and the melting ice, the German World Wide Fund for Nature placed 1,000 ice sculptures in the shape of sitting humans on the steps of the German capital at noon."
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"The Chapel Hill campus was hit with a 17 percent increase in financial aid applications this year, resulting in a 23 percent jump in the number of students who qualified for aid. By comparison, UNC saw an 8 percent increase in aid applications in the fall of 2008 and a 2 percent increase in those who qualify. The university provided $225 million in scholarships and student aid during the 2007-08 school year, the most recent year for which totals were immediately available.
'We've never seen this kind of increase,” said Shirley Ort, UNC’s associate provost and director of the Office for Scholarships and Student Aid. “In my lifetime, I've not seen this kind of economy either.'"
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This story about the House's proposed overhaul of the student financial aid system interests me for two reasons: first, I have kids just a couple of years away from going to college and second, because one of my summer internships in college (back in the 80s) was with the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. I seem to remember that the student loan biz had issues back then too.
links for 2009-09-25
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"There’s still no substitute for the real thing but unless you have a full collection or a penchant for flea markets, at least you can flip through virtual editions of every Life magazine between 1936 and 1972—courtesy of an expanded partnership between Time Inc. and Google"
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Rex Hammock has a fascinating post about something I'll call an "insta-magazine" that was published in Australia: "So, to recap: The dust storm occurred on Wednesday. Photographers — professional and amateur — headed out into the storm and, with no organizing or pre-event planning, captured “a day in the life of a dust storm.” As people with digital tools in their hands are wont to do, photographers and observers began to upload what they were seeing and experiencing and capturing to the web. With the speed and finesse of someone who has an up-close-and-personal understanding of the “community” aspects of photo sharing (trust me on that one) and who helped to innovate much of the processes of web-based “social-media” collaborative magazine publishing, Derek put together a magazine — and has given us just one more glimpse into the potential of the magazine format."
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I like the idea that the folks at Clinton Global Initiative came up with as an alternative for conference bag swag.
links for 2009-09-24
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"I believe that there are many problems in companies that look a lot like the problem Netflix faced — such as insurance underwriting, oil exploration, or evaluating an employee's probable success. As long as the problem has lots of structured data and clear outcome variables (and the company can successfully design a way to keep customer and proprietary data safe) it makes sense to design a competition that uses the market in ideas. Then you just have to decide how much it is worth to you to have a 10% advantage over the competition on a key issue."
Butt Duster
Another text from the oldest in reply to my text that was a reply to his first text about Sports Illustrated’s Rick Reilly being at West Forsyth today. I told him I thought Reilly was there to tape the “Homecoming” show for ESPN:
“yeah they came to school, and mr. riley told a story about a “butt duster” who saw all the models of sports illustrated swim suit edition naked. and the principles were so mad that he said it”
Anyone want to fill me in on what a “butt duster” is?
Also, I obviously need to explain the difference between “principles” and “principals” to my son.
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Rubbing Elbows
Just received the following text from my oldest son who’s a junior at West Forsyth: “i met rick riley today”.
Apparently ESPN is in town to tape one of their “Homecoming” shows for Chris Paul who’s a West Forsyth alum. His family still resides in Lewisville.
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Befuddled 