Political campaigns, down through the centuries have used the technology of the times to help enhance a candidate’s
competitive edge. Innovating communication channels has always played a
key role in reaching and targeting constituencies during national
elections. Presidential candidates who failed to embrace the new
technologies of their day often found themselves vulnerable in the eyes
of the public.
The critically acclaimed 1996 dark comedy film Fargo, written and directed by The Coen Brothers is coming
to the small screen. That’s right, the hilarious yodeling accent made
famous by actress Frances McDorman in the classic flick also featuring
Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy has cast equal star power for a TV
version about to kick-off on the FX network this week. But that’s not
the only reason Fargo’s in the news these days. . .
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Differing from a tangible invention, new virtual tools for traders are shaking up the financial industry. Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys
— a top-selling treatise on the state of modern-day Wall Street — is
turning the stock market ecosystem on its head. For those who still
think the hallowed halls of the stock exchange is still about alpha-male
floor traders whaling in trading pits to ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ – think again
— for that world is officially DOA.
Consider two human tendencies: impulsivity and procrastination.
Impulsivity indicates a tendency to act or react quickly, perhaps
without giving an action too much thought or consideration.
Procrastination is a tendency to act later, to put things off until
tomorrow or some unknown future time. They may seem contradictory, or
like opposite traits, but they are not. Researchers at the University of
Colorado at Boulder explain how they are complementary and genetic traits.
Great news for boat owners. You can now clean your boat hulls without taking your boat out of the water or diving underneath it to clean it… with an invention called Scrubbis™. It uses a patented sponge technology to keep it bouyant!
…. Don’t ask what it does; ask what it doesn’t do, and I’d have to think
hard. Ah! it doesn’t accommodate your bathroom needs and it doesn’t
bring your breakfast to you (unless you have a robot aide, and then it
could command it), but it might be able to cook your breakfast –
remotely, of course.
Let’s face it; it’s hard to please a cat. Toys are one way to do that,
but cats are finicky, so you have to rotate them. One day your cat will
be rolling around with a catnip-stuffed mouse and the next she’s as
blazé as a sphinx when you toss it. So, you have to keep a stash of
toys, freshened up with some good catnip, before you re-introduce them
every few weeks or so. It’s cat psychology… as far as it goes.
Most parents don’t consider that their teenagers are at risk for
osteoporosis; teens certainly don’t think about it. But with teens
spending more time with their screens – computer, notepad, TV, and smart
phone – than in athletic activities, researchers are starting to look
into how these sedentary habits are affecting teen development –
particularly their bone development.
Doormats get a bad rap. They take all the dirt we can wipe off on them,
withstand tremendous weight, let our dogs urinate on them. And when
doormats get very dirty or very old, their owners don’t even bother to
clean them; they throw them away and lay new ones out. But a South
Carolinian inventor, Andrew Clark, has created a doormat you won’t want
to throw away… because it’s very very smart.
Even cats that groom themselves can only do it to a point. They can’t
clean their ears, for example, or remove their shedding fur very easily.
They can’t give themselves medications or put bandages around their
scrapes and, funny, for some reason, they don’t like it very much when
we try to administer to them. So, lucky for us, the folks at Downtown Pet Supply came up with this Cat Grooming Bag aka Cat Restraint Bag.
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