My buddy gave me a tour of the Apple Campus on Friday. We saw Eddie Cue's Lambo in the underground parking and we are pretty sure that we saw Angela Ahrendts who is Apple's senior vice president of retail and online stores, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
Below are a couple of pics of me in front of the sign:
Okay...I was expecting something cheesy but this actually incredibly done. It captures many of the coolest elements of living life in Victoria. Well worth the watch!
It is therefore the task of a neoliberal government to reconstruct the landscape for its implementation. This involves the purposeful manufacturing of a crisis by underfunding the system to its breaking point, in order to deem that system so dysfunctional that the only alternative is to replace it with a government-sponsored ‘solution’ – in this case a private, for-profit model.
Astronomers have mapped the Milky Way's position to the outskirts of a supercluster of galaxies, newly dubbed Laniakea, meaning "Immense Heaven".
The long summer stall in teacher bargaining may be due to terms the government is insisting on including in the next contract, The Tyee has learned. I for one, for the sake of keeping class sizes low, hope the teachers hold out until the Government can be exposed for it's duplicitous dealings.
Jobs was not easily convinced. But he believed in an incredible future. And that combination helped him unlock it.
Lead researcher Dr Amy Bonomi has previously argued the best-seller was “perpetuating dangerous abuse standards”, romanticising a plot where the lead female character becomes “disempowered and entrapped”.I haven't read the book but probably good that all know the context of the book and recognize all the negative aspects portrayed in it.
Continuous wooden elements create treads in both upper and lower sections of this U-shaped staircase at a Mumbai apartment by Mexican studio Arquitectura en Movimiento Workshop .
The remote cliff-top house rests 13 metres above the water, and is surrounded by spectacular and varied scenery.
I came across this in my bike lock up area today. Someone has actually planted several plants in a planter box on the front of their bike. Only in Victoria!
Another great analysis by Horace. Worthwhile reading the short analysis:
It is worthwhile to scroll down the page and watch the full video's on these bikes....wow it is hard to choose the best one.
Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
Look at the second chart....the growth of Apple's app business is astounding!
Last year, Eric Chemi of Bloomberg Businessweek pointed out the amazing fact that Apple's iPhone sales alone were larger than the revenues at 474 of the companies in the S&P 500 stock index.
A UK startup called MaidSafe, based in the small town of Troon in Scotland, reckons the myriad problems with today’s Internet can be linked to a design quirk of its underlying architecture.�And that the answer to solving the web’s most perennial issues,�such as finding�sustainable digital business models for content, safeguarding user data and privacy, and thwarting hacking, malware and overreaching�surveillance, is to begin again�–�with a whole new re-architected Internet.
My God I hope this is true....could address the loss of middle class jobs in the manufacturing sector and provide some hope for that group.
Eight of the world's ten biggest Ikea stores are in China, catering for the country's growing middle class. The stores are designed with extra room displays given the tendency for customers to make a visit an all-day affair. Store management does not discourage shoppers from sleeping on Ikea furniture, even marking them with signs inviting customers to try them out.
The last real barrier to adoption has fallen. The momentum has increased for these products and I have no doubt that these will explode in the educational market.
The presentation is well worth going through. There are some great nuggets in there.
Our own Chris Hadfield and his brother sing the a very Canadian song. For all my fellow Canadian brothers and sisters.....enjoy.
Community is getting its sixth season. This fall, it'll head to Yahoo Screen for a 13-episode run, saving the show after it was canceled by NBC in May. "I am very pleased that Community will be returning for its predestined sixth season on Yahoo," series creator Dan Harmon says in a statement.
Wow...I teared up watching this. Very powerful.
