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Quote of the Week from Seth Godin: …merriment requires a group, and that group is almost always a group you can see and touch, one that’s sharing the same molecules of air, face to face. The digital revolution continues to get deeper, wider and more important. But it has made no progress at all at [...]

Weekend Links

Low-Tech Toys [via Marne]: The 5 Best Toys of All Time Hi-Tech Trouble: WiFi Connections Lead to Fertility Problems Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));

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Human Power News: Quebec man nears end of 11-year walk around the world 3rd Attempt: Jellyfish, currents cut short Cuba-to-Florida swim High Tech Problem(s): BlackBerry outages spread to the U.S. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, [...]

Low Tech Hand Drill To the Rescue!

Low Tech Hand Tools: Recommended Hand Drill Working on a recent project, I discovered my rechargeable drill wasn’t working. I tried charging the battery, but it would no longer hold a charge. I dug out an old electric power drill, which was also not working. Fortunately, I had an old hand drill my dad gave [...]

Netflix Can’t Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time?

Reed Hastings, Netflix Co-Founder and CEO blogs: So we realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently. It’s hard for me to write this after over 10 [...]