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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirrorrelease date: March 16, 2012 Mirror Mirror is a comedic, female-empowering version of the Snow White tale. Julia Roberts and Lily Collins play the Evil Queen and Snow White respectively and they seem to fit their roles perfectly. Although visually, the tale is a more classic rendition, with over the top…
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Roboto was almost immediately branded a Frankenfont, a multi-headed hydra, and many other names by font purists and tyros alike, because of what seems to be a borrowing of identifiable features of several well-known fonts, including Helvetica. Stephen Coles at Typographica singled out characters he felt quite similar in form from Helvetica, Myriad, Universe, FF…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug bridgettelizabeth: John Cleese on creativity (by zeekomkommers) “We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of…
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kateoplis: William Gibson: The Future Now What is the future to you?Tomorrow. Literally. The present is a very short interval, today. I don’t feel we live in an era. An era’s supposed to be a long period of the same sort of thing. I don’t think we’re having that, unless you want to crank the…
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It may seem astonishing to see a book company expanding so rapidly in the digital age, or a thriving market for three-dimensional libraries: Countless oracles have proclaimed print products dead. Yet that prophecy only seems to steel the Assoulines’ resolve to make their enterprise’s core products more elaborate and sumptuous than ever. The world of…
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Stowe Boyd: A Company Of One In An Architecture Of Cooperation
Stowe Boyd: A Company Of One In An Architecture Of Cooperation stoweboyd: Jeremiah Owyang is onto something when he recently suggested that workers should change their mindset about work, and consider themselves instead as a ‘company of one’: Mindset: Your Boss Is Really Your Client, Jeremiah Owyang […] the way that companies should re-think management…
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thisway: Charles “Sparky” Schulz Draws Charlie Brown (Official) (by Snoopy) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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[Argentine President Cristina] Fernandez is only the latest South American leader to be diagnosed with cancer. Presidents Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Dilma Rousseff of Brazil all have undergone treatments recently. Argentine President Has Thyroid Cancer – NYTimes.com
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Police in Colombia say they have found a half-built submarine in a warehouse in a suburb of the capital Bogota. (via BBC News | AMERICAS | Drug submarine found in Colombia) From September of 2000.
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springwise: Social enterprise connects artists with empty commercial buildings In the UK we recently saw empty commercial properties offered to charities for free while permanent tenants are found. Similarly, an Australian social enterprise — Renew Australia — is connecting artists and community projects with workspaces in vacant city-center buildings until they are needed again for commercial use.…