Friday, February 18, 2011
Alarming Ring by Meng Fandi » THIS is elegant design at work
Alarming Ring
Ring is a vibrating alarm designed for people who hate the loud blaring sounds of a typical alarm. The charging cradle is where you set what time you want each ring to go off. The ring fits over the tip of your finger and when that opportune time arrives, it vibrates. Putting the ring back on the dock shuts off the alarm.
The benefits are two-fold. It’s perfect for couples whom wake up at different hours. Never again will you be disturbed from your precious sleep when the alarm goes off. It’s a discrete sensation that only you feel. Another application is for the hearing impaired helping to improve their quality of life.
Designer: Meng Fandi
via yankodesign.com
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Gungor - You Have Me
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Dope Sauce! Shouts to B Tate for putting me on to this squad............
Thursday, February 10, 2011
@Joe Holland • beingandyjones: The Trick Shot Quarterback....
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Wow......I need to check his highlights and see if this accuracy carries on to the actual field of play. If so, he's gonna be a Problem!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Are Paper Books Going the Way of the 8-Track?
Amazon sales pop as Kindle books overtake paperbacks
The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 810,000 books. By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporterJanuary 27, 2011: 5:37 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- OK, bookworms, now you can declare Armageddon: Kindle e-books have overtaken paperback books as the bestselling type of content in Amazon's bookstore.
Amazon made waves when it announced in July that Kindle content was outselling hardcover books. But industry analysts quickly dismissed that milestone, pointing out that paperback books sell far more copies than pricier hardcovers.
E-books have now vanquished their paperback rivals as well.
"This milestone has come even sooner than we expected -- and it's on top of continued growth in paperback sales," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a prepared statement.
In fact, for every 100 paperback books sold, Amazon has sold 115 Kindle books since the beginning of the year, the company said.
Amazon reported record quarterly sales of $13 billion for the three months that ended Dec. 31, up 36% compared to last year. Earnings also topped Wall Street's estimates, with net income of $416 million, or 91 cents a share.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were looking for 88 cents a share on $13 billion in revenue.
Sales in the Canada and the United States jumped almost 50% from a year ago, while international sales climbed 26%.
Though the results were solid, investors were rattled by the online retailer's guidance for the current quarter.
Amazon expects sales to come in between $9.1 billion and $9.9 billion, but it anticipates that its operating income will decline. It set a very wide range for its forecast, saying it expects operating income of $260 million to $385 million -- which would be down a mild 2% or a whopping 34% compared to last year.
Shares of Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) tumbled almost 9% in after-hour trading, after rising more than 5% during the market's open.
For the full year, the Seattle-based company booked a profit of $1.15 billion, up 28% from 2009, as sales increased 40% to $34.2 billion
Amazon has never revealed sales figures for the Kindle. Price cuts late last year brought the most basic version down to $139, and Kindle apps are now available now for a wide variety of devices -- including the iPhone, iPad as well as BlackBerry and Android phones.
Beyond the Kindle, other dedicated e-readers include the Barnes & Noble (BKS, Fortune 500) Nook, the Sony (SNY) Reader and Borders' Kobo.
-CNNMoney staff reporter Hibah Yousuf contributed to this report.
First Published: January 27, 2011: 5:01 PM ET
via money.cnn.com
So, what do you think? Will there come a day in the foreseeable future when "turning the page" is always "pushing the button?"
Ohio Mom Jailed for Sending Her Kids to a Better School - TIME NewsFeed
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Much of the poltical rhetoric on education reform has centered on the ability of parents to send their children to better schools, particularly in situations where they were forced to send them to schools that were failing. But in the case of Kelley Williams-Bolar, her desire to get her children better educational placement landed her in jail, and may well derail her aspirations of becoming a teacher herself.
Williams-Bolar, 40, and her two children live in housing projects in Akron, Ohio. For two years, she sent them to school in the Copley-Fairlawn district, where her father lived, because it was a safer environment -- the high crime rate in her area drove her decision. The suburban school district hired a private investigator to find their residential records and it turned out she listed the children as living in that district, although they actually stayed with her.
(More on TIME.com: See pictures of a Mandarin school in Minneapolis)
Technically, that qualifies as a felony since she falsified records, and Judge Patricia Cosgrove sentenced her to two concurrent five-year prison sentences. She suspended the sentence, though, in favor of a 10-day jail sentence, 80 hours of community service and three years probation. She had been working as a teaching assistant for special needs children and earning a teaching degree, but since she is now a convicted felon, under Ohio law she cannot earn that degree.
The conviction has caused outrage among many who advocate change and improvement in education, particularly for the poor and disadvantaged minority communities. Syracuse University professor Boyce Watkins took to the blogosphere to openly voice his outrage.
"There is no logical reason on earth why this mother of two should be dehumanized by going to jail and be left permanently marginalized from future economic and educational opportunities, he wrote on his blog. "Even if you believe in the laws that keep poor kids trapped in underperforming schools, the idea that this woman should be sent to jail for demanding educational access is simply ridiculous."
The website Change.org has launched a petition in support of reduction on appeal of Williams-Bolar's conviction, and have started a Twitter campaign on it.
Both girls, now aged 16 and 12, attended schools in Copley-Fairlawn from August 2006 to June 2008, but now attend school elsewhere, according to the Akron Beacon-Journal.
(More on TIME.com: See pictures of homeschooled children)
Right or Ridiculous? Thoughts?
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