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Difficult Decisions

Hospice medical care for dying patients – Via The New Yorker An absolutely gut wrenching story about the difficult decisions patients, families, and their physcians face, at end of life.

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The Story of Bottled Water

500,000,000 bottles of water per WEEK in the USA alone. Yikes!

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Lemonade

Really enjoyed Lemonade. Whether you’ve been laid off or not, this is a great 30 minute reality check. Available in full on Hulu for those in the US: http://www.hulu.com/embed/U_odwAUsThscpcw2HvAxhA

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Talk about a speck…

This simply has to make you wonder about what else is out there.

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It can’t be both!

Which is the worse scenario? 1) Retail spending is down for the holiday season because consumers are spending within their means. OR 2) Retail sales are up slightly while consumers over spend on their credit cards and further bury themselves in debt. Despite what I see on the news most nights, I propose that the [...]

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The New York Times had an excellent feature story a few days ago: How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan The three-month review that led to the escalate-then-exit strategy is a case study in decision making in the Obama White House — intense, methodical, rigorous, earnest and at times deeply frustrating for nearly [...]

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3 years!

Happy 3 year anniversary my love. All photos are by the amazing Mindy Sonshine Photography.

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Seriously. This is the message Ballmer’s trying to send during the launch of Windows 7. “Let’s face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That’s why they’ve got 75,000 applications — they’re all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.” – Associated Press [...]

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A Big Difference

Clearly there’s a big difference between simply checking a box to meet a specification (i.e., phone with a 3megapixel camera), and making the complete user experience drop dead seamless and fun. iPhone is now the most popular camera on Flickr… Flickr for god sakes. And it absoultely blows away other camera phones that have been [...]

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When I picked up my Forerunner 301 a few years ago, Garmin’s support for the Mac left much to be desired. MotionBased was clunky, the connection required some finagling, and on it went. When I really picked up running last year I tried out a few different tools for syncing my training progress to my [...]

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