Archive for June, 2010
1.7 million iPhone 4″™s sold!
In its first 3 days of sales, Apple’s iPhone 4 was purchased 1.7 millions times over in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. The demand for the iPhone 4 exceeded the supply, however, and CEO Steve Jobs extended an apology to those customers who will have to do some waiting. What is remarkable about Apple’s new product launch is the people behind the phone.
The tiny house movement
The small house has just gotten tiny! An architectural and social movement, the small house rarely exceeds 500 square feet. and the tiny house can be as little as 90 square feet
Would you like to sit in this chair?
Does our sense of touch have anything to do with decision-making? MIT Assistant Professor in marketing, Joshua Ackerman, believes that it does. He teamed up with psychologists at Harvard and Yale to put his theory to the test (Jeremy Hsu, “Just a Touch Can Influence Thoughts and Decisions,” Live Science ).
How To Prepare for a Painting Project ““ The Home Depot
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Home Ownership Still A Virtue? ““ Marketwatch.com
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A very cool barn-house
Fires happen.
The World Cup teaches finance
Soccer fans everywhere have their eyes and ears on The World Cup stage in South Africa. Surprising events have occurred, according to Brett Arends’s ”7 Lessons the World Cup Offers on the Stock Market” ( The Wall Street Journal ) , and these happenings parallel the world of business
Classical music meets Mario Bros.
http://holykaw.alltop.com/video-game-violinist-video  Have a listen to violinist Teppel Okada as he replicates the sound effects of the Super Mario Bros. video game. Happy Friday!
Do you Haiku?
If you twitter, chances are that you have either read someone else’s haiku or written your own. NPR’s Geoffrey Nunberg reports that the traditional poetic form of HAIKU has been rebirthed by social media.
Seattle is #2 in Kiplingers Best Cities 2010
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