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This too shall pass

Posted by Mark on Thursday, March 11th, 2010. Filed under Film/Movies, Fresh Ideas, Online video, Web.

First I heard about it on NPR. Then a post on Fast Company’s daily. Finally, when I got home, I went out and watched the [...]

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Is healthcare reform dead?

Posted by Mark on Sunday, March 7th, 2010. Filed under Living, Politics.

I think this particular go-round of healthcare legislative initiatives, yes, is dead. So much misinformation, so much anger, so many threats about government interference and [...]

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New music – Peter Gabriel does Bon Iver

Posted by Mark on Thursday, March 4th, 2010. Filed under Music.

Read about this on NPR. An interesting take on a song I already liked very much.

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Playing from the up tees

Posted by Mark on Thursday, March 4th, 2010. Filed under Golf.

Big day for the golf bug, here at Burris’s regional HQ, at least. But no time, no time. There is time, however, for a bit [...]

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I think this Internet thing might catch on

Posted by Mark on Monday, March 1st, 2010. Filed under Web.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

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What movie was that?

Posted by Mark on Sunday, February 28th, 2010. Filed under Film/Movies.

Wonder no more. Find the most obscure speech, actor or scene with movieclips.com.

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Browsers and Google Chrome

Posted by Mark on Saturday, February 27th, 2010. Filed under Web.

Lately I’ve gone back to using an app for email. We switched to allow Google host burris.com, and in doing so we enabled an Exchange [...]

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Google’s creative progeny

Posted by Mark on Saturday, February 27th, 2010. Filed under Burris.

Originally posted to “Substitutes,” I offer this as well to readers of the Idea Blog. Want to know the power of a corporate culture based [...]

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It’s Warren Buffett day

Posted by Mark on Saturday, February 27th, 2010. Filed under Celebrities, Managing.

The Berkshire Annual Report for 2009 was posted overnight, and the letter to shareholders is full of Buffett’s insights and wit, as usual.
Excerpt from the [...]

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Meet Russell & Mackenna. I did.

Posted by Mark on Friday, February 26th, 2010. Filed under Branding.

Betty is featured on Russell & MacKenna’s homepage and in a nice additional feature blurb justĀ one click away from the homepage.

Interesting story.
We at Burris are [...]

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