This weekend, something special happened. And I’m not referring to the fact that Steve and I got up before 9AM on a weekend. A group of women (and a couple men) came together voluntarily on their own time to teach and learn how to edit Wikipedia. For 4 hours, 20 of us sat in the kitchen …
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This is awesome! The LA Times magazine released the 50 best Los Angeles bands. Each with a YouTube video and open voting for the best LA band. I’m viewing it on the iPad app, which is awesome (LA Times Magazine App), but you can also view it at latimesmagazine.com. The cover everything from the Beach …
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
*This is a cross post from a new 1X57 project – OmuthituSchool.com* — Have you ever been away from home so long that you start missing the strangest things? For me it’s always hometown doughnuts and Mexican food. For Spence, who has been in Africa for 16 months, it’s M&M’s. Here’s a message I just received from him: …
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
Funny business, a woman’s career – the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That’s one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, …
Between all the hype about iCloud, OSX Lion, and Apple’s WWDC 2011, something went missing. The next version of the iPhone, rumored to be called iPhone 5. So what happened to the iPhone 5? I’ve been crawling the internet everyday (see picture at right) for news and everything is mum. Not my Mom, she is …
Here is an interesting debate between Josh Topolsky and MG Siegler talking about Apple’s new iCloud strategy. Josh is making the case that Apple is completely ditching the Internet, and MG is countering that Josh is missing the App revolution. — Josh: “When it comes to Apple, it feels to me like the company views …
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I don’t usually endorse products (least of which retail/clothing) here, but considering how much I get complimented on this sun hat every time I wear it and how important it is to protect our skin from the damages and dangers of the sun (multiple members of my family have had malignant melanoma on their face), I …
Last week at dinner, our friend (@doyendon) challenged 1X57 to find, or at least contemplate, a solution to consumer-based economies, aka contemporary capitalism, which is causing a global crisis of unconscionable proportions – with food and energy prices soaring, world populations surging, and weather-related disasters like tornadoes, tsunamis, droughts, fires and floods increasing in frequency and scale. In a …
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