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Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed
Burj Dubai tower is almost complete. Check out the set of high-res photos. I’m glad someone in the world knows how to engineer stuff like this. If it were left up to me, we’d all be in caves rubbing sticks together trying to start a fire.

Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed

Burj Dubai tower is almost complete. Check out the set of high-res photos. I’m glad someone in the world knows how to engineer stuff like this. If it were left up to me, we’d all be in caves rubbing sticks together trying to start a fire.

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»Private banking by shoebox

Realizing that many of its wealthy clients lack the time or patience to deal with their personal finances, Amsterdam-based private bank Insinger de Beaufort launched a new service that takes…

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mayagantt:riotrepublic: Newspaper blackout poems. There are more here, and it’s worth noting that I love the blog. :)

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the giving tree (wave hill)

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74. Dear Don Draper, My kid didn't know how to make a Sidecar for my wife. Should I be embarrassed, hit him, or throw his toy robot across the kitchen?

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whatwoulddondraperdo:

Never hit your children. You think loss, some pain or a bruise will teach him to mix drinks? To learn right from wrong? That’s not the way it works. He’s a kid. My father beat the hell out of me. All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him. Level with the kid. When he’s treated with honesty and respect he’ll aspire to be honest and respectable.

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“ A common misconception is that ‘regular’ people don’t buy from spam. But, you have to consider the types of products people are buying,” Marshal’s Bradley Anstis wrote in the company’s release today. “It’s pirated software, knock-off watches, counterfeit designer goods, cheap drugs and prescription medicines, pornography and other adult material. The Internet provides convenience and a degree of anonymity to people who want to buy illegal or restricted goods. It is a black market and spam has become a conventional means of advertising to a willing audience of millions of people who are purchasing from spam.” The announcement of the study concludes with these funny lines, from Anstis again: “The other way to look at this situation is from a spammer’s perspective. There are approximately 250 million people out there who are interested in these kinds of products and have made purchases from spam in the past. That’s equivalent to double the population of Japan mixed in with every other Internet user. As a spammer - how do you reach that market without knowing specifically who these people are and with the bare minimum of expense? Easy, send lots of emails to everyone.

• 29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It Aint So! - ReadWriteWeb

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1) The next time you’re chatting with your aunt in Peoria — or that CMO in Cleveland — you shouldn’t be shocked that they haven’t heard of (much less used) some new technology or service that has you and your ambient friends all a-Twitter (pun intended.) This is probably true even if Advertising Age or BusinessWeek or the New York Times has written a puffy trend piece about it. 2) The next time you feel inclined to write off some new, over-hyped thing as a passing fad that has passed away you may want to stop and consider that outside of our little, well-insulated clique of early adopters, it actually hasn’t even started to happen yet. Sure, some technologies will never cross the chasm (remember the way DAT was going to revolutionize the music industry?) but just because we’re tired of it we shouldn’t assume that it has outlived its usefulness. 3) Let’s be sure not to confuse the early poster children of any technology revolution with the longer term potential and more reasonable expectations that we might have for the category those poster children represent. For example, don’t confuse cyber-flare-out Second Life with the larger opportunity inherent in public virtual worlds. (via Greg Verdino: Marketing, Media & Trends

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zoee:

Today’s doodle. Apparently it rubs people the wrong way when I tell them to relax.

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»The Micro-site Isn’t Dead. (It's Just Not Useful)

If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something. Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a format which I think has the…

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74. Dear Don Draper, My kid didn't know how to make a Sidecar for my wife. Should I be embarrassed, hit him, or throw his toy robot across the kitchen?