links for 2006-08-09
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One of three reasons to get data on your phone. (The other two are Gmail and uploading to Flickr.)
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How Dale Chihuly created a multimillion-dollar market for glass as fine art, built a mass-production company to sustain it -- and set out to neutralize his competition.
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User comments on the zipcar experience. I wonder how Zipcar fares in cities where parking is more plentiful, cabs are scarce, and there are actually cars available on the weekends.
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Adam of Beggars Banquet (home of labels like XL, Matador, 4AD, Too Pure, Beggars, etc.) engages with mp3 bloggers about labels' anti-piracy efforts and blogger etiquette.
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The rules are simple: Take an extreme close-up of some everyday object that makes for an interesting composition, but also makes it difficult to identify the object.
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Ian Crown plans to ship fresh mangosteens to the mainland United States next summer.
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Bluetooth is named for a 10th-century Danish king, Harald Blatand, who united warring Danes, Swedes and Norwegian. The Bluetooth logo merges the Nordic runes analogous to the modern Latin H and B.
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