Archive for May, 2010
The Latest Tech Trends For Your Home – Market Watch
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Home Depot – How To Start a Container Garden
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Did Europe lower our mortgage rates?
For months, the housing industry has been preparing itself for a rise in home loan interest rates. What it got instead is a windfall — interest rates have fallen well below 5%. According to The Wall Street Journal , some experts believe that the average rate will fall to 4.5% by summer (”Mortgage Rates Decline: Home Buyers Get Surprise Boost From Europe Crisis as Loans Drop to Below 5%”).
Lego gets back to basics
LEGO has been making toy bricks for the last 50 years. How has this Danish corporation fared through the economic downturn? NPR reports that LEGO’s profits jumped by more than 60% last year! (NPR, “LEGO Gets Leg Up On Toy Competitors”) This rosy picture has a back-story worth talking about
Pac-Man celebrates 30
Pac-Man migrated from Japan to the US in 1980. Today, the arcade game celebrates its 30th year in the industry and remains as relevant now as it was then. Created by 8 developers over a period of 15 months, Pac-Man was first called “Puckman,” which meant Chomp-man in the original Japanese. (The name was changed for obvious reasons.) Four ghosts — Pinky, Blinky, Inky, and Clyde — pursued Pac-Man, who attempted to gobble up dots lining the maze. The broad popularity and success of the game spurred the creation of over 400 Pac-Man derivatives (e.g.
A Free Webtool for Remodeling
Remodeling just got easier. Autodesk Homestyler is a free web tool designed to help consumers visualize options for remodeling their homes.
HGTV – 2010 Green Home 90 Second Tour
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Can there be too much internet?
In the age of information abundance, individuals and businesses must be choosy about which type of internet is best suited for their needs. Alexandra Samuel, Director of The Social and Interactive Media Center at Emily Carr University, suggests that social media can be a vehicle for reasserting balance ( Harvard Business Review ).
Does Evite make us equivocal?
These days invitations are evitations.
The info highway is not just on your computer
Technolology is making it possible for many of us to rewire our connections.
