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Quoted: Monday saw a couple of great sessions here at South By South West. At 10am - and in front of a large crowd, despite the previous evening's bowling - Lea Alcantara discussed The Art of Self-Branding . Her five key points that your personal brand should encompass: Relevance, Design/Presentation, Message/Communication, Understanding of the customer,

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Yikes.

Quoted: In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion.

Quoted: We are often given the following specifications from a vendor:RPM - Revolutions Per Minute. The number of rotations completed in one minute.Seek Time - The time required to position the head over the target track. (less for read than write)Average Latency - (Rotational Latency) Average time after head is over the track for the target sector to rotate

i just picked up McDonough and Braungart's book Cradle to Cradle and noticed in the back that chi-town is listed as one of their partners. This is McDonough's overview of the partnership. It's a little lacking on details, but as far as I know Chicago is the only city that has seriously considered Cradle to Cradle for city renovation.

also, the book is freaking awesome from a fetishist's perspective. it smells like no other book i have ever smelled and it is almost infinitely eraseable. i underlined a bunch of stuff on one page with a fine pen, took a wet washcloth, and successfully scrubbed off all the marks and underlinings without damage to either 'paper' or ink. pretty pretty cool...

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This is exactly the right thing to do.

Quoted: Greg Mortenson has spent less than one-ten-thousandth as much as the Bush administration to help fight terrorism in Pakistan. Instead of blowing things up, he builds schools.

Quoted: Digital Web's founder and publisher, Nick Finck, on The Contextual Web:

"There are four Elements of Context - the User, the Task, the Environment, and the Technology. Who is your user and what obstacles are they facing; what task are they trying to complete; what is the environment in which they are working; and what kind of computer

Understanding urban and rural spaces on the basis of mixed use is pretty amazing.

Quoted: A US charity helps Detroit's poorest people turn vacant lots into blooming gardens, the BBC's Matt Wells finds.