Autor: Andreea Nastase
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links for 2008-06-08
Flexing Your Buying Power – Dress for Less and Less – NYTimes.com “We as a business cannot afford to have a customer take a second look and ask, ‘Do I need this?’ ” said Bud Konheim, the chief executive of Nicole Miller. “That is the kiss of death. We’re finished, because nobody really needs anything…
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10 lucruri pe care nu le stiam
De la BBC: Placa George Orwell in Barcelona is covered by CCTV. (versus 99.9% din suprafata Marii Britanii, mai putin locurile/momentele in care chiar ai nevoie!) Television presenter Fern Britton has a gastric band. Nearly all animals are banned from the grounds of the Houses of Parliament – except dogs and horses. Many businessmen believe…
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links for 2008-06-06
Are we creatures of habit in game worlds too? | Games | guardian.co.uk „Wherever we’re going, in some weird unspoken way, we want it to be home.” (tags: social science games lifestyle life behaviour) Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’ „Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common,…
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links for 2008-06-05
Cellphone Study Reveals Surprising Patterns in People’s Movement – PSFK „The majority of people travel a relatively short distance, somewhere between 5km-10km a day on a regular basis, and tend to re-visit the same spots over and over again. People’s movement followed a power law distribution, a mathematical relationship th (tags: life people communication)
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links for 2008-06-04
Ann Summers to tone down its raunchy image “The new concept will be much more luxurious and glamorous. Before it felt more clinical, old-fashioned. Now it is softer, with a boudoir feel.” LOL…what planet do you hail from? (tags: annsummers lingerie uk)
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Frisch
Daca tot e Max Frisch in Cotidianul, recomandat de Ioan T. Morar, tot din seria ‘personalitati si probleme cu ele’ e si cartea ‘Eu nu sunt Stiller‘, la fel de buna. Go read that daca ‘Numele meu fie Gatnenbein’ a trezit ceva sentimente sau impresii. Homo Faber nu e pentru mine, enough cancer stories already.