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Month: September 2011

Technology Is The New Smoking

We’ve all been there; You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or what ever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?

Remember when the critical mass of smokers used to leave the table or meeting in groups to go indulge their habit? I straight up open my laptop at bars and parties, and then feel more guilty about that than drinking.

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Future Birthplace of James T Kirk

Someone has a sense of humor in Riverside, Iowa. The small city along the banks of the English River is, in Star Trek mythology, the birthplace of a certain Captain James T Kirk. One resident decided that Kirk’s birth to be had to be celebrated with a public monument – and so here you have it. Is it OK to say only in America at this point?


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Betty White Is America’s Most Trusted Celebrity

Betty White, the beloved Golden Girl and the world’s favorite grandmotherly figure (Sorry, Grandma!), has been rated as America’s most trusted celebrity. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the 89-year-old star is the one we’d most want promoting our products.

Reuters found that 86% of Americans had a favorable opinion of White. She bested a host of Oscar-winning movie stars and even a royal duchess. (Kate Middleton was found “favorable” by only 79% of voters.) But the pollsters differentiated favor from trust in considering who we’d want promoting products and giving us advice.

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Cadillac Ciel Concept Car

The Ciel is powered by a 425-horsepower, twin-turbocharged version of GM’s 3.6-liter V6 engine with direct injection that’s augmented by a hybrid system using lithium-ion batteries.

Those massive 22-inch wheels may not look that large because the Ciel itself is a big boat with a wheelbase 12 inches longer than a CTS sedan and overall length cresting 200 inches. Cadillac says the car’s shape is more natural and organic than its current design language, perhaps expressing more Art than Science with smoother lines and softer curves than we’re used to seeing. We particularly like the slightly rising chrome accent line along the rocker panels that stretches the length of the Ciel.


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