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Slow Blogging Week

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My reblog has been pretty exciting, though. Highlights include Dean, this infographic from the independent about a cease fire in the Middle East, John's Japanese pothole pictures in Time Out New York, the Cyclones played 26 innings on Thursday (Jude and I saw a pathetic performance by the Cyclones on Wednesday, although Totonno's pizza was fantastic), Alaina's avocados are growing, and perhaps most notably Al Swerengen invests in Mule Design.

Join the OpenLab and Make Your Mark on the Public Domain

Michael Frumin writes that Eyebeam is now accepting applications for the next round of R&D Fellows in the R&D OpenLab:

We are looking for hardware and software hackers, techno arts-and-craftsters, and new types of open source makers to come to New York City and develop experimental creative technologies and media. The OpenLab represents an opportunity for selected individuals to work in a state-of-the-art digital fabrication laboratory, to collaborate with a range of talented technologists and artists from diverse and hybrid backgrounds, to gain international exposure for innovative work and to directly enrich the global DIY community, free culture and the public domain. Join past OpenLab Fellows and projects like MintyBoost, OGLE (OpenGLExtractor), SlashLinks, LED Throwies, Contagious Media and FundRace and make your mark on the Public Domain.

It's hard to overstate how awesome Eyebeam is. Any one of these projects could be the basis for a multi-million dollar company, but they choose to donate their work back to the public domain instead.

Bourdain stuck in Lebanon

According to Michael Ruhlman, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is stuck in Lebanon, where he's enjoying the mojitos but still scared. Ruhlman also takes this opportunity to ruminate on the term "celebrity chef:"

Why do we have to use celebrity chef? We don’t call Wynton Marsalis the celebrity musician. We don’t refer to Annika Sorenstam as the celebrity golfer, we don’t say celebrity actor and we don’t say celebrity celebrity, though surely there are those, someone who’s famous only for being famous. As far as chefs go, are we calling them celebrity chefs to indicate they don’t cook anymore? We should consider this.

SCHMUCK RD

SCHMUCK RD
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From Makeup to Markup

NBC Names New Chief for iVillage Unit:

At privately held Conde Nast, Fine had served as publisher of Glamour and Bride's, two of the company's biggest magazines. She also worked in senior roles at Avon Products Inc. and headed up a fashion line called Pink at Victoria's Secret, a unit of Intimate Brands, which is owned by Limited Brands Inc.

This hire oozes synergy.