Taking Aim: the voice of women in business
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3/12/2010 04:59:00 PM
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Mobile devices such as Apple's iPad, announced this week, are providing new ways to see the crown jewels of space science: glorious views from the frontiers of the universe. However, getting to the good stuff sometimes requires a little sleuthing. Check out some of the brightest gems - and feel free to pass along your own favorites.
If you want to see cosmic pictures on a compact screen, here are a few places to start:
Sharing great space photos. Check the full list including Hubble's Universe and Goddard Shorts.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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2/22/2010 05:03:00 PM
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Diners worried they will end up in a noisy restaurant may want to play defense with a few strategies. Googling pictures of the restaurant can be helpful: Walls of windows, high ceilings, boxy dimensions, a surfeit of hard lines and a dearth of soft materials should raise red flags. Call the restaurant and ask if it has acoustical paneling or other sound-reducing materials. Take note: If they say they have carpeting, that's often not enough, says Marshall Long, an acoustical engineer in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Restaurants rarely lay down carpet more than one-inch thick, the minimum for effective noise control, he says.
Once in a noisy restaurant, seek out tables in alcoves or side rooms, which can barricade or at least deflect noise, Mr. Thunder says. Convincing management to turn down the music is a double boon: The music itself gets softer, and then other diners lower their voices because they are no longer competing with the music.
While the article was interesting, this is one of those consumer issues, not designer issues. Try some of the defense moves quoted above; they work. If you have others that work, please share.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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2/22/2010 08:00:00 AM
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Doing a family geneaology project, I note my grandfather's handwriting is similar to my brother's. Is it genetic? I did short research and found this enlightening piece, posted here in what is significant part for me. Link is here.
In the past the study of an individual's personality by means of his handwriting was usually regarded with a great deal of scepticism. What was put in doubt was the very existence of a sound correlation between a single subject's distinctive character and his own personal way of writing (with its symbolisms).
Through the years, preconceived ideas and incredulity have little by little given way to reasonable persuasion, mostly as a result of several empirical validations and of scientific trials proving the actual relation between a given individual (with his psyche and soma unity) and his own graphic expression. ....now graphology too is apparently experiencing freedom from long standing prejudices, thanks also to the progresses in the scientific studies linking the evolution of senile neurologic illnesses to typical patterns of handwriting deterioration.
...in the everyday act of writing a note to a friend or in the formal signing of a document we all implicitly take for granted that that graphic representation, with its cluster of typical peculiarities, portrays in short just and exactly ourselves, thus setting each of us apart from any other person; if we gave no implicit acknowledgement to the univocal relationship between any individual person and his own handwriting, one would not understand the reason why we all daily attribute so great an identificative power to our signature as to entrust to that specific written symbol the testimony of authenticity of a contract, of a check, of a letter, of any whatsoever document; still this is what happens daily. In other words, if one would get to deny the actual existence of a real relation (with close interconnection) between an individual and his own typical handwriting, we should ask ourselves why each day millions of people carefully sign at the foot of a document, thus convinced of bestowing to that paper the distinctive brand of their own doing.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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2/11/2010 09:56:00 AM
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At least it hasn’t been since September, when freelance writer Shaun Usher launched Letters of Note. The blog, as Usher explains on the homepage, “is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos.”
As I sit reading old letters from the past of a deceased relative, I so agree with Mr. Usher's take on letters. Check out his blog, Letters of Note. You'll be hooked on writing again. As Mr. Usher notes in this interview, "t’s the visual aspect of written correspondence that really grabs me. The creases of the paper, the handwriting, the odd few extra thick letters where the typewriter’s been bashed too hard."
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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1/31/2010 02:56:00 PM
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If you are charged for your 411 search calls, check out Google's 411 service. Lots of functions -- and free.
http://www.google.com/goog411/
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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1/09/2010 03:11:00 PM
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Not only do Yahoo! and Verizon apparently hate the Constitution and the Freedom of Information Act, but they also seemingly believe the public is too stupid to form reasonable thoughts. Both companies have appealed to the government to thwart agitator Christopher Soghoian because the man rightfully and legally wants to know how much private info the companies reveal to law enforcement agencies. [From: Wired]
Don't know where this will go, but interesting read.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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12/03/2009 08:19:00 AM
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12/01/2009 04:38:00 PMOver the next twenty-four hours we're [Google] rolling out a new format for image universal results. When we're confident that we have great image results, we'll now show a larger image and additional smaller images alongside. With this new layout we're able to show you more pictures than before, so you have more to choose from. As always, you can click on an image to see it full size in the original webpage.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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12/03/2009 08:12:00 AM
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12/03/2009 08:09:00 AM
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And enjoy the link to What Browser? to see what browser you are using and why you might switch.
Posted from Broadside: Taking Aim at the Social Revolution
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10/10/2009 01:08:00 PM
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