Noteworthy
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Never Settle
Real Life/Work Lessons from Toyota I would love to work for a company that operated like this. From Fast Company magazine. What drives Toyota? The presumption of imperfection — and a distinctly American refusal to accept it. Excerpts: Toyota's competitiveness is quiet, internal, self-critical. It is rooted in an institutional obsession with improvement that Toyota… Continue reading
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Eat Your Way to Wired
Coffee and Donuts is an old standby for a fast meal with all of the necessary food groups: caffeine, sugar, fat, and (with mocha or a frosted donut) chocolate!. Can it get any “better”? Continue reading
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backinprint.com
Print-on-demand technology is getting better and more accessible. Continue reading
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Three Steps to a New, Improved Microsoft!
From the September 2006 issue of PC World magazine… Continue reading
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JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
Douglas Crackford writes about why JavaScript is actually a much better programming language than most people think. Continue reading
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Happy Fourth!
Happy Fourth of July, Independence Day, 230th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Continue reading
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Quinoa
I discovered quinoa in the Company cafeteria. Qunoa is a grain crop from South America, where it has been an important food for 6,000 years. Continue reading
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Lighting Up The Future
A research team from Kennedy & Violich Architecture in Boston has designed solar-powered lamps composed of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) woven into colorful swaths of fabric. The lights are undergoing field testing in a remote mountain community of Mexico's Sierra Madre, Continue reading
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Big Macs & Bikram Yoga
In Monday’s FC Now (The Fast Company weblog), Danielle Sacks writes about “McDonald’s latest PR schwag”. Continue reading
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National Sense of Smell Day
Start thinking about smells because Saturday, April 29, is National Sense of Smell Day. Continue reading
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