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Friday
Friday movie collection Friday Night Lights movie NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday (program site) Bike Friday: folding travel bicycles Photo Friday: weekly photo challenge Illustration Friday:...
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managing email overload
Just counting the legitimate, non-spam stuff, are you overwhelmed by email? You’re not alone. Email overload is a problem facing everyone from students and teachers to high-level executives to...
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One Brick
On Sunday, as I was walking up Telegraph Hill toward Coit Tower — admiring the colony of fluttering, squawking wild parrots in the treetops — I saw a group of work glove-clad hipsters with rakes and...
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Super Bowl commercials
What’s the best part of the Super Bowl? The parties? Making food or ordering in? The risque halftime entertainment? The fact that for some, it marks the end of seventeen weeks of misery? While you’re...
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Valentine’s Day alternatives
Some people love February 14, in all its pink-blouse-and-red-sweater glory; others resent its existence and wish it would just disappear from the calendar. For those not celebrating romantic love...
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found and overheard
Sometimes what strangers say and write, taken out of context — especially when taken out of context — is fascinating. Overheard in New York publishes transcripts of random conversations overheard in...
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BBC World Service: “Mobile Phones”
The BBC World Service produces fascinating radio documentaries on various topics: "Building Beijing": Construction within this Chinese city — the site of the 2008 Olympic Games — is happening at such...
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quote gifts
Sometimes the perfect thing to say has already been said by someone else. Lunch Mail has encapsulated this concept in an attractive product designed to uplift and inspire. Each Lunch Mail pack...
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book clubs and reading resources
A couple of years ago, I co-founded a major book club in my city. Because I was the facilitator, I felt it was my duty to read not only the chosen books but the study guides as well. It was like...
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do it yourself
Remember "The Future"? When our environment was supposed to have become so technologically advanced that machines would do virtually everything for us, leaving us with many hours of free time to...
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Making ‘Milk': make-believe riot, talking shop with actors
Making Milk: retro storefrontsphoto: Steve Rhodes [previous: friends, Anita Bryant, Carrie Fisher] During another shot of the Wichita protest march, I walked past the giant cameras set on a rig in the...
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Making ‘Milk': friends, Anita Bryant, Carrie Fisher
Making Milk: prop flyers on backdropphoto: Steve Rhodes [previous: laughing while acting] Actors and extras took breaks while waiting for cameras and equipment to be repositioned. Production...
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Making ‘Milk': laughing while acting
Making Milk: view of Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro photo: Eric Nielson (TroublePup, Observd) [previous: Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones] During one take, I marched past two extras dressed as macho riot...
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Making ‘Milk': Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones
Making Milk: Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones photo: Eric Nielson (TroublePup, Observd) [previous: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk] After Sean Penn’s big crowd-rousing scene, principle actor Emile Hirsch, playing...
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Making ‘Milk': Sean Penn as Harvey Milk
Sean Penn (as Harvey Milk) addresses the crowd during the making of Milk photo: Eric Nielson (TroublePup, Observd) [previous: being an extra in the crowd scenes] Sean Penn — now clean-shaven and...
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Making ‘Milk': being an extra in the crowd scenes
Making Milk: crowd of extras in the Castro photo: Eric Nielson (TroublePup, Observd) [previous: Making ‘Milk’] When a big crowd amasses on the street in the Castro District of San Francisco, it’s...
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Making ‘Milk,’ the movie about Harvey Milk
Milk: The Harvey Milk Story casting poster(photo: Steve Rhodes) Update: Now that the much-awaited film Milk has premiered, many politically astute observers have noted the parallels between the recent...
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Dear Guy Kawasaki
To: Mr. Guy Kawasaki c/o Garage Technology Ventures Dear Mr. Kawasaki, The manager of the Microsoft booth at Macworld was going to throw this away after you were finished with your book signing for...
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The Point: leveraging tipping points to achieve Big Goals
Got vision? Ready to inspire others to do something big? If you’ve got an idea, what you need to do next is build a powerful network of like-minded enthusiasts to achieve a common goal. Yeah, you...
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Macworld 2010: free Expo pass
In San Francisco during February 9-13, 2010? Attend the Macworld Expo for free! (The Expo pass is a $25 value. Offer expires August 30, 2009.) 2010 will be the first year in which Apple, Inc. itself...
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