This afternoon, CNET presented a CES session called ” Next Big Thing ,” focused on how technology ecosystems are coming to dictate the success or failure of products like phones, computers and TVs. …
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Two very different views of public transit, from two authors that will be on Bookhugger this afternoon To: Robin Meade When my nephew US Army Specialist Craig Tallent arrived at our Thanksgiving Family Reunion this afternoon, his little cousins greeted him with a soldier’s welcome! Craig is in training at Ft. Bragg, NC. Just had to share this photo of 2 of my grandsons (Brandon aged 5, and Colin aged 3) trying out their new construction kits their Dad got them. They are repairing a deck at the back of my house. Screen shot from police helicopter video In southern Ontario, some of the biggest development pressures are on land around Lake Simcoe, less than an hour from downtown Toronto, with a four lane highway inching north. There are huge fights going on to preserve the lake, to control development. Image credit Herman Miller Standing desks have been around for a long time; I keep showing pictures of Herman Miller’s Action Office from the sixties in the hope that they will introduce their standing desk . Even in 1958, their designer Bob Propst could write: “Compelled by lack of choice, we are forced to conduct most office activity in a sitting position. The result, as medical studies and insurance data make clear, is a steady decline in vitality, energy, and general body tone.” B… The retrospective, called “Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet,” will feature screenings of 16 films by that director, including “Dog Day Afternoon, “Network,” “Serpico” and “The Wiz.” The designer and his partner spent decades acquiring art and other objects. Stephen Schwartz, the musical-theater composer and lyrricist, offers his operatic version of the 1964 British film “Séance on a Wet Afternoon.” |
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