] This movie almost has it all. As an action movie, as a
] coming-of-age tale, as a fantasy quest, it easily lives
] up to all expectations. The story does a satisfying job
] of tying up all the loose ends of the series. No
] questions are left unanswered. It is a dark and sinister
] movie ripe with political intrigue that hits home in
] President Bush's America ("You are either with me, or
] you're my enemy," the new Vader says). In fact, if you
] ignore the acting, it's possibly the greatest movie ever
] made.

Movie Review: Except for acting, 'Sith' is fabulous - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA

] So, I'm the father of a graduate. ("Okay, Dad. This is
] the deal. You've got six years to get an honorary
] doctorate from somewhere. You can't get it from anywhere
] that I'm studying, and you can't get it when I actually
] graduate anything, as you have to be there.")

Neil Gaiman

] Like day follows night, a bogus "cumulative update" with
] a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch
] day.
]
] In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are
] taking advantage of the heightened public interest around
] Microsoft's patching cycle to trick users into executing
] a malicious attachment.

Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack

] Rule 16 - Read Books
]
] A wise man once told me that it is easy to become an
] expert in almost any topic. He said all you have to do is
] read five books on any subject and bang, you know it all.
] In general, it is a pretty good, albeit simple, advice.

800-CEO-READ Blog: Read Books

] For a no nonsense approach to creating effective
] PowerPoint presentations, read Seth Godin's e-book
] REALLY BAD POWERPOINT (.pdf).

Rest of the post is good, but this is free. It takes
little time, and yet should have an impact. I am almost
excited to create my next presentation, whenever that may be.

800-CEO-READ Blog: Business Book Smarts

] 360electrical makes electrical outlets that swivel in
] your wall to accommodate bulky plugs and transformers --
] if your plug blocks the other outlet, just rotate it
] until it doesn't.

Boing Boing: Rotating electrical outlet for big plugs

] Despite almost four millennia as centres of civilisation,
] it was only fairly recently that cities attracted more
] than a small percentage of the global population. With
] hindsight, the 20th Century was the century of
] urbanisation.
]
] In 1900, only 14% of humanity lived in cities. By the
] century's close, 47% of us did so. This change is
] revealed in the growth of the number of medium-sized
] cities. In 1950, there were 83 cities with populations
] exceeding one million; but by 2000, this had risen to
] 411.

Of course, at least in the US, some of this may be attributed to an increased definition of 'urban' space. The city lines of a city founded in 1950 is far more generous than 1850 or 1750.

PSFK: Half Of Humanity To Go Urban

] Like McDonald's, Starbucks is a concept driven as
] much by real estate as it is by coffee and the coffee
] experience. These days Starbucks opens at least three new
] locations a day somewhere in the world. It has taken a
] lot of real estate to open up 9,000 Starbucks locations
] and it will take even more real estate to reach their
] stated goal of 30,000 global locations.
]
] There is much to learn about Starbucks expertise in the
] real estate game and Arthur Rubinfeld, former EVP of Real
] Estate with Starbucks, shares many of these learnings in
] BUILT FOR GROWTH (Wharton Publishing, 2005).

Brand Autopsy: Starbucks Real Estate Learnings

] According to Forrester Research, bloggers tend to be
] affluent (average household income: $57,900), influential
] with peers, and broadband-connected. 25% of all bloggers
] are ages 18-24 - this group is 9 times more likely to
] have their own blogs.

...or at least care to identify themselves as such.

And naturally, the question of this research: what is a blog? Is this a blog? Is a livejournal a blog? If I have memestreams and livejournal "blogs" -- and say two other similar public accounts -- am I one blogger?

Average blogger household income is $57,900 :: AO

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This is a great little publisher. They published "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", one of the most important books of the last year.

Direct Public Offering of The Berrett-Koehler Group