October 2011

This is an abbre­vi­ated list of inter­est­ing things I read, looked at, or watched this week. Ama­zon Signs Up Authors, Writ­ing Pub­lish­ers Out of Deal – David Stre­it­feld Can Your Roman­tic Life be Reduced to Pro­nouns? – Tara Parker-Pope Big List of Things to Be Happy About – Nora Dunn Is This the End of Pop­ping Vitamins? […]

For­eign Exchange (fea­tur­ing YahZarah) – If This is Love

Tamara Mel­lon, Chief Cre­ative Offi­cer for Jimmy Choo, offers some sound advice on mens’ shoes.   Here is the back story on why I posted this video. For a good num­ber of years, when I worked on Capi­tol Hill and down­town DC as a lob­by­ist, I was very much into suits, shirts, cuf­flinks, ties, braces (sus­penders) and […]

Just what is Diwali? Diwali is India’s biggest and most well known hol­i­day. It is known as the “fes­ti­val of lights” and it cel­e­brates the Hindu new year. Diwali is a pop­u­lar fes­ti­val not just amongst Hin­dus, but also in other reli­gions like Jain­ism, Bud­dhism and Sikkhism. It is cel­e­brated by peo­ple all over the world. Diwali […]

Dis­claimer: This post is writ­ten purely from the per­spec­tive of a self-professed nerd that fol­lows tech­nol­ogy rather closely.   There are just too many smart­phones hit­ting the mar­ket — specif­i­cally Android devices. I know that the cur­rent trend in mobile devices is a move from basic fea­ture phones to smart­phones. I sus­pect that trend is […]

The fol­low­ing is an abbre­vi­ated list of inter­est­ing things I read, looked at, or watched this week. Pro­duc­ere – James Shel­ley Exclu­sive: Matias Duarte on the Phi­los­o­phy of Android, and An In-Depth Look at Ice Cream Sand­wich – Joshua Topol­sky Being Together – Mark Boul­ton Is This the Biggest Trade Secret of the Inter­net? – The […]

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