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How About Banning Bullets? The Constitution Doesn’t Say Anything About Those…

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Henry Blodget See Also AMERICAN GUN STORE: Before And After Sandy Hook Massacre [PHOTOS] Walmart Sells Assault Weapons But Bans Music With Swear Words It’s Time We Saw The Idea That Everyone Should Carry An Assault Weapon For What It Is: Nuts One of the arguments invoked by those who think we should keep assault weapons freely available in this country is that the Constitution says we have a right…

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Five Best Photo Filter Apps

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As reported in LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Whether photo filter apps are fun ways to share your mobile photos with friends or you use them to add a touch of personality and custom flair to your snapshots, one thing is for sure: iTunes and Google Play are both full of them. Some of them offer heavy editing tools, others have great social aspects to back them up. We asked you which ones you thought were the…

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Self-Compassion is More Important to Success than Self-Esteem

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Being proud of your work and showing some self-esteem and confidence will get you a long way in life, but at the office, sometimes it’s the ability to forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes that’s more valuable than pure ego. Self-compassion can help you learn and grow, which is key to succeeding in any career. Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, of the Columbia University Business School, explains in a…

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Wired, Tired, Expired for 2012: From Stellar to Suck

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As reported on Wired. BY MICHAEL CALORE Longtime readers will be familiar with Wired/Tired/Expired, our snarky cultural scorecard that began appearing in the magazine way back at the dawn of Wired. (Actually, it started as Wired/Tired, and Expired was added in 2002.) Not content to let a good idea sit on the shelf, we’ve asked product reviews editor Michael Calore, the office’s most opinionated loudmouth, to weigh in on the topics most deserving of this year’s honors.…

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How One Pixar Animator Manufactures His Own Toys

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As reported on Wired. BY JOSEPH FLAHERTY The “Happy Beaver” is a vinyl toy designed by Jeff Pidgeon – a story artist at Pixar who worked on theToy Story series. The toy started out as a sketch in Jeff Pidgeon’s notebook. Going from 2-D to 3-D can be challenging. Pidgeon started with clay, but eventually modeled the character in 3-D. One of the key benefits of 3-D printing is rapid prototyping. Pidgeon was able to evaluate models…

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Why is Google trying to ruin Christmas?

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris On the list of things that bring joy and happiness to all men on earth, Christmas and Emoji feature very high. With that in mind, you can understand our shock to discover that Google is making a mockery of these fine institutions. In a bug report titled Santa Emoji is sad, when Santa should be jolly, one Android user reveals Google’s actions:   Please describe the problem in detail.…

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What’s Next For Social Mobile Games?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JULIEN CODORNIOU Editor’s note: Julien Codorniou is the head of EMEA Game Partnerships at Facebook where he works with the growing social games industry in Europe. Follow Julien on Twitter @codorniou. New social gaming companies are emerging around the world (hot spots right now are Moscow, Tel Aviv and Helsinki), and in my role I get to speak with developers every day. Regardless of the size of the company, their locale, or…

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Don’t Spout Off About Social In The Business World – Just Get The Work Done

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Don’t spout off about social in the business world. Just use it to get the work done, because that’s what matters most. I have been reminded of that often during the year. Earlier this month, I wrote about Moxie Software and how it uses the Facebook social graph and a company’s social data to determine the context for chatting with a customer over a branded page. The company uses Facebook and social…

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A Hackathon Ushers In A Holiday Version Of Changemakrs, The Platform For Inspirational Quotes

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As reported on TechCrunch. by KIM-MAI CUTLER Changemakrs, a platform for sharing inspiration built by an ex-Facebooker, is tapping into the Christmas spirit with a version of the site that lets anyone share holiday quotes. If you sign into the site, Changemakrs will automatically add holiday quotes to the homepage, using some natural-language processing algorithms that categorize the quotes. They also do quality filtering through internal user rankings. This holiday version of the site was hacked together in…

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Google Introduces An Easier Way To Sync Gmail Contacts To Your iPhone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ No need to let Facebook and Twitter have all the iOS-integration fun: today, Googleannounced a new, easier way for Gmail users to sync their Google Contacts to their iOS devices. The company is introducing support for an open protocol called CardDAV, which will allow third party clients, including, most notably, the native iOS Contacts app, the ability to sync with Google Contacts. There are already a number of ways to get your Google…

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