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Star Wars fleet week in San Francisco

20 Aug 2008 from Boing Boing | Read the full story»

I dig this fun special effects video "documenting" San Francisco Fleet Week if the fleet were Imperial craft from Star Wars. Seen above, a Lambda-class shuttle soars past the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Coming to Central Park

24 JUL 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

A 7,500-Square-Foot Ad for Chanel, With an Artistic Mission--A rectangular patch of sand in Central Park may be the last place you'd expect to find a gleaming "Star Trek"-style spacecraft. But an art pavilion that resembles just that will make a temporary landing there this fall.

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A presidential comic flip-book?

31 Jul 2008 from Daniel Pink | Read the full story»

I’m all over this like a cheap suit. More info.

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Workings of Ancient 'Computer' Deciphered

31 JUL 2008 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of ancient Greek technology, scientists have found that the device not only predicted solar eclipses but also organized the calendar in the four-year cycles of the Olympiad, forerunner of the modern Olympic Games.

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All about "Eve": Virgin Galactic mothership unveiled.

28 Jul 2008 from Boing Boing | Read the full story»

Today was an amazing day out at Mojave Spaceport.

Burt Rutan, Sir Richard Branson, and a bevy of space celebs (including Dr. Buzz Aldrin) gathered for the launch of Virgin Galactic's twin-hulled mothership, "Eve," named after Sir Richard's own mom -- who formally christened WhiteKnightTwo with the pop of a champagne bottle. Branson explained that the spaceliner was also named "Eve" because she was conceived as an historic first for humankind.

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Muhammad Yunus, the Movie

24 JUL 2008 from BusinessWeek | Read the full story»

A Bangladeshi ex-pat documentary maker is part of a team developing a biopic about the micro-banking Nobel prize winner

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red's art heist- 7 reasons why it's brilliant

15 Feb 2008 from Influx Insights Weblog | Read the full story»

RED, the brand designed and built to raise money for Africa, has been keeping a low profile in the last few months that was until yesterday.

As we all know, money talks.

This piece, a collaboration between Banksy and Damien Hirst was supposed to fetch $200k, but ended up going for $1.8!

Banksy/Hirst Collaboration- $1.8 million

Banksy/Hirst Collaboration- $1.8 million

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The Liberian Widows Initiative: A Helping Hand that Stretches from the U.S. to Africa

12 Feb 2008 from Knowledge@Wharton | Read the full story»

Kristin King and Kate Brubacher are founding members of Liberian Widows Initiative (LWI), an organization to aid women devastated by the Liberian Civil War. LWI provides small business loans and savings accounts to members of the extreme poor -- Liberian refugee women who struggle to feed their families and send their children to school. LWI was an outgrowth of Brubacher's residence in West Africa during 2004-2005. Brubacher is now at Yale Law School and King is a second year MBA student at Wharton. King and Wharton management professor Keith Weigelt talked to Knowledge@Wharton about the challenges of running a grass-roots microfinance initiative several thousand miles away.

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Dutch Architects Plan for a Floating Future

28 Jan 2008 from NPR Programs: All Things Considered | Read the full story»

Architects in Holland are showing the rest of the world a way of turning adversity into opportunity. Instead of building around rising waters, they ask, why not build on water? Floating houses, gardens, even villages are the future vision of some Dutch planners. (Audio

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Pachyderm Patrols Fend Off Elephants Rioting in Sumatra

06 DEC 2007 from the Wall Street Journal | Read the full story»

'Flying Squad' Beats Back Herds That Kill People And Devastate Plantations

TESSO NILO, Indonesia -- If you're trying to keep the peace between man and beast, it helps to have the elephant "Flying Squad" on your side. (Video )

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Professor Makes Lab on a Chip With Shrinky Dink and Toaster Oven

04 Dec 2007 from Wired News: Top Stories | Read the full story»

A young professor lacking equipment took matters into her own hands, creating a device that aids medical researchers out of Shrinky Dinks, a laser printer and a toaster oven.

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Do We Need a Project Project?

06 JUN 2007 from Organizations and Markets | Read the full story»

A peculiar fact about business schools (at least in the USA) is that project management is not part of the regular MBA curriculum. Why is this peculiar? Only because a huge percentage of the work managers do is organized into projects, the success or failure of strategies often rests on the quality of execution of projects, and many of the principles and techniques of good project management are not immediately obvious.

Hat tip: Dynamist Blog

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In the Event of Global Disaster, the Ultimate Crop Backup System

31 May 2007 from Wired News: Top Stories | Read the full story»

If disaster — climate change, nuclear war — ever wipes out the world's crops, we'll need spare seeds. Inside the ultimate agricultural backup system.

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'504 Radio' Reconnects Big Easy's Musicians, Fans

06 May 2007 from NPR Programs: All Things Considered | Read the full story»

New Orleans residents fleeing Hurricanes Katrina and Rita left behind records of local, independently produced hip-hop, R&B and other musical genres. Now, two New Orleans DJs have started a project called "504 Radio," a series of CDs named after New Orleans' area code intended to reconnect musicians and fans scattered by the storms. (Audio

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Lost memories could be restored by 'rewiring' brain

29 Apr 2007 from New Scientist - Latest Headlines | Read the full story»

A drug which helped mice regain their long-term memory could lead to new treatments for dementia in humans.

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Hall and Strogatz on getting in sync

25 Apr 2007 from Signal vs. Noise | Read the full story»

"The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time” by Edward T. Hall studies “how people are tied together and yet isolated by hidden threads of rhythm and walls of time.”

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Bone stem cells turned into primitive sperm cells

13 Apr 2007 from New Scientist - Latest Headlines | Read the full story»

If these cells can be turned into mature sperm, it could allow infertile men to father their own children, and even allow women to produce their own sperm.

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'Inspector Gadget' to star in space tether test

28 Mar 2007 from New Scientist - Latest Headlines | Read the full story»

A thermos-flask-sized satellite called Gadget will ride up and down a 1-kilometre-long tether in space, to check its resistance to micrometeoroids.

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Trying to Meet the Neighbors

11 MAR 2007 from the New York Times | Read the full story»

Is there anybody out there? Give the question some thought before you answer, because it’s more perilous than it seems.

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Scientists set to rock the world

09 Mar 2007 from BBC News | Technology | World Edition | Read the full story»

The world's geologists are to bring together all their maps, producing the first truly global resource on rocks.

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Toyota University Opens Admissions to Outsiders

06 Mar 2007 from CareerJournal.com | Read the full story»

The car giant has quietly become a kind of managerial guru. At times, it has opened its training center to students ranging from home builders to police officers.

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Happy New Year

We wish you a new year filled with prosperity and growth, both personal and professional.

Happy Holidays!

We're observing the Christmas holiday today and will return to posting tomorrow, Boxing day. We wish you a day filled with joy and peace.

American Airlines 'Insources' Maintenance Work

07 Dec 2006 from NPR Programs: All Things Considered | Read the full story»

Worker input has allowed American Airlines to redesign its maintenance efforts, making operations efficient enough that the company is doing work for other airlines, including four from South America. (Audio

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Build Your Own Universe

27 Nov 2006 from NPR Programs: All Things Considered | Read the full story»

Physicists agree, one day it may be possible for a person to create a universe. It won't happen tomorrow, but the idea is in the works. There's already one problem with the idea: If a universe is created, physicists say they wouldn't know how to communicate with it. (Audio

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Happy Thanksgiving

We hope that you all have a day rich with community and contentment. The wire service will resume tomorrow.

Advertisements Revisited

"Ready. Fire! Aim." is one of Tom’s favorite mantras. In that spirit, we've been experimenting with advertising here at the TP Wire Service. We've also considered and researched it for our parent site, tompeters.com. The results have underwhelmed us. We're removing the ads from the TP Wire Service RSS feeds today and will be removing the ads from the TP Wire Service home page in the near future. Tompeters.com will remain ad-free. We welcome your thoughts on the subject. Here's to "Relentless Experimentation!"

execs who live with their consumers

05 Sep 2006 from Influx Insights Weblog | Read the full story»

To make sure they get the California market right, Tesco has been doing its research, as would be expected. What's a little different is how they went about it. For a two-week period, 50 senior Tesco directors and researchers lived with American families, recording and experiencing their shopping, eating and leisure habits.

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Labor Day

"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country." [U.S. Dept. of Labor]

There will be no postings today at TP Wire Service in observance of the holiday. Have a wonderful day.

Ice cream guy takes on defense budget

26 Jul 2006 from APM's Marketplace | Read the full story»

Ben & Jerry's founder Ben Cohen now runs a non-profit called Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities. Host Kai Ryssdal talks to him about the change from peddling ice cream to trying to cut the defense budget. (Audio

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Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It's All in the Genes

25 Jul 2006 from NYT > Health | Read the full story»

A five-decade project explores what makes animals (and maybe humans) tame. (Subscription required!)

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One man's spam is another's art

26 JUL 2006 from C|NET News.com | Read the full story»

Most people see Viagra ads and Nigerian scams as simply more e-mail to delete. Alex Dragulescu sees art.

For the last several years, the Romanian-born computer artist has applied techniques in computational modeling and information visualization to invent a new form of artistic expression. One of his more notable projects involved creating what he calls Spam Plants. He wrote algorithms that analyzed various text and data points of junk e-mail to produce "organic" images of plantlike structures that spontaneously grew based on incoming spam.

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Largest water clock in N. America

24 Jul 2006 from CNET News.com | Read the full story»

Blog: We're not sure if there's an obviously practical application for this contraption, but it caught our attention anyway because...

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Viewing America in high resolution

17 Jul 2006 from CNET News.com | Read the full story»

A cross-country tour with a custom-built camera aims to capture the U.S. in staggering digital detail.
Images: Closeup on America

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Happy 4th of July!

We're taking the day off in celebration of Independence Day here in the U.S. We hope everyone has an opportunity to relish freedom today. Enjoy!

Happy New Year

Wishing you a prosperous and fulfilling New Year, the TP Wire Service will resume its postings tomorrow.

Beyond Gasoline: His Car Smelling Like French Fries, Willie Nelson Sells Biodiesel

29 Dec 2005 from NYT > Business | Read the full story»

Willie Nelson has his own brand of alternative fuel called BioWillie that can be made from any number of crops and run in a normal diesel engine. (Subscription required!)

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Happy Holidays

Wishing you a joyous holiday season, the TP Wire Service will resume its postings tomorrow.

Simon Jenkins: Shakespeare workshops are helping some of our huge prisons

22 Dec 2005 from Guardian Unlimited | Read the full story»

Books: Shakespeare workshops are helping prisoners to find a vehicle for their anger and shame, writes Simon Jenkins.

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Inventing a Better Bubble

22 Dec 2005 from NPR Programs: Morning Edition | Read the full story»

Renee Montagne talks with Tim Kehoe, inventor of colored bubbles being marketed as Zubbles. Kehoe spent 11 years on a mission to create bubbles that retain a rich, solid color and don't stain when they pop. (Audio

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The Whoa! Project

20 Dec 2005 from Brand Autopsy | Read the full story»

In The WOW Project, Tom Peters wrote, “All work is project work. And you are your projects.” I couldn’t agree with him more. Throughout my marketing career, I’ve lived in the projects and that’s why I can relate to this visual of Project MISmanagement which I’ve titled, "The WHOA! Project".

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Happy Thanksgiving

Have a wonderful holiday. The wire service will resume tomorrow.

Big Air on Fillmore

29 SEP 2005 from Flickr.com | Read the full story»

Every skier and snowboarder in Northern California has had the fantasy:
"If only it snowed in San Francisco... "

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Tom has generously provided the funding for this site since its inception. Now that we have launched successfully and have a steady readership, it's time to pull our own weight, fiscally speaking, and begin to use advertisements to support the site. By going this route, we're joining such news aggregators as Always On Network, The Huffington Post, and Information Week. We're not sure which method will work best both for us and for you. So you'll see a few changes both to the site and to the RSS feeds in the coming weeks. Feel free to let us know what you think by emailing us.

Learning to Work with Wikis

21 Sep 2005 from BusinessWeek Online -- Tech Beat | Read the full story»

A few weeks ago, I suddenly realized I would need a better way to collaborate with BusinessWeek's other writers and editors on our Best of the Web list than simply emailing lists back and forth and trying to keep up with every little change. No time for all that rigmarole. That's when I remembered wikis, those Web sites that anybody can edit.

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TPWS had a tune-up

Over the weekend, the Tom Peters Wire Service switched servers. As a result, readers may notice some kinks due to the information transfer. Our team has yet to encounter any, so please let us know if you experience a problem and we'd be happy to help solve it.

H20 - Watering the tree of knowledge

14 Jul 2005 from Joho the Blog | Read the full story»

On Wednesday, about 75 people crowded into a seminar room at Harvard Law to talk about H20 playlists, a Berkman project in beta that lets people build and share "lists" of online and offline resources. It grows out of projects started in 1998, including a structured forum ("Rotisserie") for mutliple classes to discuss shared readings. ("H20" originally stood for "Harvard 2.0." Hence, the 0 is a zero, not the letter O.)

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Secrets of the Dinosaurs

25 Jun 2005 from MSNBC.com: Newsweek Technology & Science | Read the full story»

With the help of new fossil discoveries and new technologies, scientists are learning how dinosaurs lived—and died.

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Fast-Food Deal a Big Win for Small Migrants' Group

16 Jun 2005 from NPR Topics: Business | Read the full story»

This spring, a small farm workers' group won a surprising victory against the world's second-largest fast-food company. The parent company of Taco Bell agreed to pay tomato pickers in Immokalee, Fla., higher wages and -- perhaps more significantly -- to lead a push for more protections for migrant workers. (Audio

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Secret Wall Tattoos

17 May 2005 from PSFK | Read the full story»

Catch this. People going from hotel room to hotel room, taking down the 'art' on the wall, putting their own art underneath and then replacing the original 'art'. According to City Rag, it's creating an army of people peaking behind stuff on the walls of their hotel rooms. Maybe unsurprisingly, a touring rock star is one of the key artists behind this movement.

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Developer Infuses Historic Properties With Commerce

27 Apr 2005 from NYT > Business | Read the full story»

Anthony Lanier has transformed a group of industrial buildings along a rat-infested alley in Washington into an elegant cluster of small shops. (Subscription required!)

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Counterterrorism Exercise Begins

04 Apr 2005 from NPR Programs: Morning Edition | Read the full story»

The nation's largest counterterrorism exercise begins Monday, and it will consist of a mock chemical attack in Connecticut and a biological attack in New Jersey. The five-day drill will test the readiness of federal, state, local and international officials. It's the third such drill, and those who participated in the last one two years ago say it provided some useful lessons.

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Choosing the Next Pope

04 Apr 2005 from NPR Programs: Morning Edition | Read the full story»

Writer Greg Tobin discusses the process of choosing the next pope. The selection process involves a centuries old and very secret ritual known as the conclave. Tobin is the author of Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections.

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