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Apple takes two D&AD Awards - Business - Macworld UK
Maybe the Academy Awards should go to this sort of awards schedule...

The Slow Life Picks Up Speed - New York Times
“The time is now ripe for trying to formalize this slow revolution,” Mr. Berthelsen, the founder of the World Institute of Slowness, an advocacy group based in Kristiansand, Norway, said slowly last week.

Venture Capital Meets Slow Money at Investors’ Circle Conference : Ecopreneurist
As part of the larger Slow Movement sweeping the cultures of food, travel, cities, and schools, Slow Money proponents seek investments and returns at the pace of sustainable business development.

Our Own Worst Critic | Print Article | Newsweek.com
We are all called upon everyday to read others, to interpret how we look in their eyes. Whether in a job interview, a musical audition or a first date, it's basic human nature to calculate how we're doing as performers in life. But we so often get it...

Secure Passwords Keep You Safer
Ever since I wrote about the 34,000 MySpace passwords I analyzed, people have been asking how to choose secure passwords.My piece aside, there's been a lot written on this topic over the years -- both serious and humorous -- but most of it seems to be

Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web - ReadWriteWeb
As the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a whole.

Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Social Networks | Compiler from Wired.com
Here's a shocker for you: Facebook doesn't want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google's recently launched Friend Connect service

Design Patterns in Python
The choice of implementation language affects the use of design patterns. Naturally some languages are better applicable for different tasks than others. Each language has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. In this paper we implement some of the bet

Life Learning Today
Life Improvement Tips You Can Use Today!

JavaScript Tutorial
A basic tutorial about javascript. Contains a lot of examples.

Bloggers Need Errors and Omissions Insurance
A friend (wasn’t sure if I can name you?) sent me something fascinating. Here’s the story: It appears that a whole new issue is coming up for bloggers and online content/freelance writers. A few contacts and I have been getting requests for...

Why Twitter Matters
The key question today isn't what's dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here's why I'm looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter...

How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog — Pearsonified
Chris offers some neat tips on creating custom functions for WordPress.