Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 24-11-2010
Gizmodiva: Who said black tie affairs are not for dogs? Your dogs can dress extremely sophisticated and formal too. You might not own a tie, but you can certainly buy one for your dog and send it to a classy dinner party. Or when you are headed of to a black tie event, there’s no reason why your dog won’t accompany you! This velcro collar and tie turns your mutt into a yuppie or refined canine gentleman. The collars and ties are available in many colors and patterns. Your dog will happily go with you to a fancy restaurant now!
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Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 23-11-2010
FreshTrend: LifeOnRecord is a unique gift consisting of phoned-in stories and memories about the recipient.
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Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 21-11-2010
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 21-11-2010
Springwise: In what has become a vast sea of online yoga offerings, it takes something special to make a particular site stand out. For YogaVibes, that something is the inclusion of real fellow students, as we noted last year. For YogaTailor, on the other hand, it’s a feature that customizes the site’s online yoga classes to fit the viewer’s expertise and available time.
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Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 21-11-2010
Virginia Heffernan is not the first New York Times Magazine writer to tackle the topic of attention. A correspondent pointed me to another piece (published precisely 100 years ago today), which was titled “The Secret of Success Intellectual Concentration.” It looks at “notable cases where men won fame and fortune through absorbing self-communion.” These fellows they include “Edison, Keene, Pupin, Hewitt, Westinghouse and Gould” seem to have been gifted with big, fat, wonky attention spans. I particularly enjoyed the description of Edison’s ability to focus his attention: When Edison, still a telegraph operator in Boston, was receiving…
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 21-11-2010
Filed Under (Business Ideas) by Admin on 20-11-2010
Inhabitat: This clever piece by Joost Wever is made from wood scraps pieced together to form a side table with modern appeal. The top is flat, depicting a patchwork pattern squares and rectangles but if you peek below, the wooden blocks have been arranged to form the skyline of Holland.
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Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 19-11-2010
Virginia Heffernan has a funny little column in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. She opens by pointing to Jonah Lehrer and me as examples of people who allegedly believe that, as she puts it, “everyone has an attention span” and “an attention span is a freestanding entity like a boxers reach, existing independently of any newspaper or chess game that might engage or repel it, and which might be measured by the psychologists equivalent of a tailors tape.” This is complete nonsense. Lehrer and I have different views of how the internet and other media influence attentiveness, but I…
Filed Under (World Business) by Admin on 19-11-2010
Gizmodiva: Who said black tie affairs are not for dogs? Your dogs can dress extremely sophisticated and formal too. You might not own a tie, but you can certainly buy one for your dog and send it to a classy dinner party. Or when you are headed of to a black tie event, there’s no reason why your dog won’t accompany you! This velcro collar and tie turns your mutt into a yuppie or refined canine gentleman. The collars and ties are available in many colors and patterns. Your dog will happily go with you to a fancy restaurant now!
