While visiting Atlanta this past weekend, I saw BODIES… The Exhibition. It was perhaps the most fascinating, engaging, and creepy tour of science that I have ever seen.
The exhibition’s goal is to offer an educational perspective on how the body works. In practice, visitors initially see individual, isolated body parts, […]

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I recently came across an old Fortune magazine from 1998. Interesting reading–especially the ads. Behind the front page, Compaq had a full-page spread promoting a brand new laptop. Key selling points:

Intel Mobile Pentium II processor @ 266 MHz
Industry-leading AGP implementation with a dedicated 66 MHz graphics bus and 4 MB SGRAM […]

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Early-stage companies often miss opportunities to develop effective brand strategy. If you doubt the need for a great brand–thinking perhaps that technology alone will be enough to secure a strong market position–take a look at Baris’s List of Web 2.0 Companies. With that much competition, these companies need to do all they […]

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I’ve always loved remixing media, starting with music tapes years ago. Despite my best intentions, though, my efforts rarely turned out very well. Today, thanks to better software, amateurs are creating amazing remixes–particularly in video. Two examples:
First, what if Sleepless in Seattle was actually a horror movie about about a perverted […]

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For the latest in “I can’t believe this is actually happening” moments, take a look at Kyle MacDonald’s site, One Red Paperclip.
His goal: trade a single red paperclip for a house. Yes, you read that correctly. Here’s a history of the trades he’s completed so far:

Paper clip for a fish-shaped pen.
Fish-shaped […]

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