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Hashtags can be handy. Hashtags can be good. But in my first trip to the SXSW conference, ironically, I’m getting a first-hand view of when hashtags can go totally wrong. Someone decided it would be a great idea for every session to have a hashtag. OK, I get that. It makes it easy to see a [...]
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In the UK, children’s savings account are common. My kids have two of them there with different banks. Both came with special features designed to encourage them to save — a little plastic bank to sort their coins, for example, or a bonus on their interest. But here in the US, banks are apparently uninterested [...]
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There was no danger here in Newport Beach from the tsunami caused by the Chilean earthquake. That’s good, since local residents like ourselves got warning calls from the city an hour after the waves hit. But despite the thousands of miles, you could see them arrive and have an impact. The waves came just after noon [...]
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Forget Democrats and Republicans. There’s a different Blue State, Red State divide — that between which states have In-N-Out Burger locations and those that have Dunkin’ Donuts.
As you can see in the map above, much of the western half of the United States lacks Dunkin’ Donuts. Meanwhile, I constantly hear from visitors to California that [...]
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