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Archive for February, 2010

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If you’re like me, you love to be able to do cool tricks. Just for kicks. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to crack a whip like Indiana Jones or Zorro, here’s your opportunity. Anthony De Longis, who coached Harrison Ford for his last rendition of Indy, shows you exactly how to lash out. Check it out!

Categories: Tricks
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In this post, Michel Fortin highlights a few distinctions you must keep in mind when positioning your offering. Simply stated, you may offer something that everyone else does. But you could also offer something more, above and along with your product, than no one else does. Let me explain. Your product is composed of three distinct levels: There’s the core product (the product’s main benefit), The actual product (the product itself and its features), And the augmented product (the product’s value, such as [...]

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The Roca Innovation Lab recently launched a game-changing toilet. Designed by Gabriele and Oscar Buratti, the new W + W model integrates sink and toilet. Wastewater from the sink automatically fills the toilet’s tank, contributing to water savings of 25%. Isn’t it magnificient?

Categories: Design
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Watch the video below. That’s what happy looks like! Can you do that? Read what Roger Haeske had to say about it. He’s the one that shot the clip.

Categories: Emotion, Parenting, Videos
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Check out this poignant post by John Carlton on love: Now… here’s what you may have wrong about this specific brand of love: It’s NOT the most powerful emotion out there. Not even close.  The really powerful ones are fear, rage and greed. Those monsters grow without being nurtured, thrive in all conditions, and consume entire realities like an invading predator. And they will swamp love, barely registering a burp after devouring it.  If you let it happen. No, love is [...]

Categories: Emotion, John Carlton