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Staying Fresh By Mixing It Up

With the start of a new year last month we all talked a lot about making changes.  A simple one that we discussed was to make small adjustments to our habits as a way of keeping the brain fresh and avoiding things like Alzheimer’s Disease.
I’m in favor of that so since the start of the [...]

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Cambridge Public Library Lookalike

This week I came across a picture of the Niketown in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, designed by architect Masamichi Katayama and his team at Wonderwall and couldn’t help but notice it’s similarity to the new Cambridge public library designed by William Rawn Associates of Boston, with Ann Beha Architects, also of Boston that opened this fall.  You [...]

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Multitasking Meetings or Concentrated Conferencing?

Years ago we lauded a departing director of the digital department with having implemented a wireless network thereby “faciliting web surfing during pointless meetings.” It was a joke, but of course it was true. Thanks to him that company and the companies that it subsequently morphed into had a culture of laptop open meetings.
In [...]

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Pee-Wee’s 1 Year Adventure

This weekend I was in LA to see The Pee-Wee Herman Show. Yes, Pee-Wee is back along with Ms. Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Chairry, Conky, Pterri, and the rest of Puppet Land playing nightly at the Club Nokia.
Friday night Pee-Wee announced was the one year anniversary of his signing with his manager, Kelly Bush of [...]

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Pee-Wee Herman Christmas

I’d forgotten all about the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special, but luckily Pee-Wee’s resurgence this year led to his posting it on his website in all it’s glory including a cavalcade of stars including Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Charo,  Del Rubio Triplets, Whoopi Goldberg, Magic Johnson, Grace Jones, K.D. Lang, Little Richard, Joan Rivers, Dinah Shore, [...]

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Track Santa With Google Maps

Once again this year Santa is being tracked by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) as he makes his way around the globe.  You can keep an eye on his progress at the NORAD site or, when you are out and about picking up those last minute gifts, with Google maps on your BlackBerry, [...]

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Free Holiday Postcards From Google

The gifts from Google keep coming this holiday season.  First there is the free airport wifi and now free holiday postcards.  Pick one of the following cards, fill out a message and address  and Google will send it to a recipient of your choice for free.  Just one card per person so send it to [...]

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Charter For Compassion

The Charter For Compassion is the result of a cooperative effort led by 2008 TED Prize winner, author and “freelance monotheist” Karen Armstrong.  The goal of this effort is to change our world’s dialogue from selfishness and antagonism to a more open, understanding and supportive tone that eliminates hatred.  The charter is the result of [...]

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Happy Halloween: Haunted Mansion Sounds and The Great Pumpkin

It’s Halloween.  Put on your costume, have a box of Jujyfruits, enjoy the smell of dead leaves and relish some childhood memories; sounds of Disney’s Haunted Mansion and The Great Pumpkin.

mp3s of the album are available for download from RebuiltTrannyRecords.com Disneyland Record – Chilling, Thrilling Sounds Of The Haunted House (1964)

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Boston Under Water 350 Festival Saturday, October 24, 2009 3:00-5:30PM

What are you up to this weekend? How about joining me for a little activism around climate change for one of the most online marketing savvy campaigns that I know of, 350?
Scientists agree that the safe upper limit for the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million.  Currently CO2 [...]

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