Category: Asides
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Indian Getaway
This past weekend a friend of mine was in NYC to visit Columbia University’s accepted student day. Matthew Philips, Hugh Rabb and I all back-packed around Europe after college and Matthew is now headed to Columbia for a 10-month sojourn in the arts. While reminiscing over our trip to Europe I remembered a story of…
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NY Auto Show
A couple of weekends back I made it out to the Jacob Javitz Center to catch the New York Auto Show. It was the first time I’ve attended a “major” auto show and it was pretty impressive. Cars, trucks, SUVs, and all kinds of assorted automobiles everywhere. That at marketers and PR folk galore; not…
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Firefox: Surf Safer, Faster, Better
You may have heard of a new web browser that’s been gaining a lot of momentum from a grassroots perspective — Firefox. If you haven’t heard, now’s the time to take a look at a browser that claims to let you surf the internet safer, faster and better. Firefox is not just another piece of…
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Photo-Based Yellow Pages
By now you probably know that Amazon.com sells just about everything on earth, but what you may not know is that they have their own search engine called A9 as well. As far as search engines go A9 is not likely to overthrow Google’s dominance, but they do something that you definitely need to check…
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Two Ener-beers Please!
You know how every-so-often you’ll be at a bar and there will be waitresses waltzing around with samples of some new-age drink? Well, last night I was out with a few friends at the Thirsty Turtle in Stamford and we were approached by your atypical aforementioned waitresses. They were handing out free samples of Anheuser-Buschs’…