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The Anatomy of a Consulting Firm > Strategy article by David Maister

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Very interesting article about the nature and makeup of successful consulting practices.

This is no longer a bus stop

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But can you park in them?

Losties - Quick print your favorite sites before they disappear

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What will happen to Lost fan sites once the series finally comes to an end? Will they become places for fan fiction, or angry jeremiads about the finale Perhaps fans should capture their sites in print for posterity before they become filled with bitter disappointment.

20x200 : Apple 1

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Best Travel Guitars | Best Travel Guitars

When I started Best Travel Guitars It was really about traveling and finding that perfect guitar to fit the journey. It wasn’t so much about the guitar as I have my old trusty Martin and it fits me well. Despite being old it’s in great condition and I don’t like slopping it all over the place. The solution was a small portable beater…..right?

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I was talking with a friend of mine about how my wrist is still far from being able to grasp the neck of my guitar. He pointed out that I was left-handed and should therefore be playing a left-handed guitar and not a right handed one. I have to admit I had never thought of that before. The chords seemed difficult so it made sense to use my dominant hand for that. As I've gotten better and tried to teach myself how to finger pick Ive struggled, so flipping things around might make sense. It would certainly enable me to play now.

As I've been looking at left handed-guitars I've also been thinking about one that I could throw in the car along with the giant stroller and the Pack & Play. Right now my hard-cased Martin takes up a lot of room, so a travel guitar makes sense. Hence the discovery of this site which seems useful for my readers who like to take their guitars with them.

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MackDaddy blog - I need a trailer

Gilt going local with GiltCity: New York

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Just got an invite to check out GiltCity. So looks like "curated" cool local deals, time sensitive and limited to invites of course. Very smart.

Mark Bittman's slog - mmm tasty

Starting today, markbittman.com will become an active, dynamic, bloggy, constantly updated site. We're calling it a "slog," a combination of "salon" and "blog."* And we're going to try to slog our way forward, so that eventually, there'll be even more here - a place to share and comment on recipes, on eating styles and changing habits, a place to offer your own variations, pictures, videos. A place where you can participate in a variety of ways. A conversation.

The starting place for the slog is a kind of community table, where people gather to share ideas, opinions, experiences, and news about food. We're going to have first-rate contributors, old professionals and new, reporters, thinkers, and cooks (sometimes people who are all three), writing about topics that will be diverse, interesting, and sometimes controversial. (Soon, we're going to solicit contributions from anyone who wants to join us. This Means You.)

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Bob sitting across from Marina Abramovic. Showed this to a colleague who said it was like watching a mime version of a prisoner talking to his wife across an invisible partition, at the time it was very funny. He did not cry.

Magyar Posta - A Collection a Day, 2010: Day 122

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Via Coolhunting this very nice blog where each day Lisa Congdon photographs or draws small collections she has arond her house. I like the idea that three of something is a collection. I also love that she has some random Hungarian stamps. When I was a kid I had a stamp collection. I would buy bags of assorted stamps at the Gimbel's on 86th and Lex and most of the ones in the bag seemed to be from Hungry - Magyar Posta. I definitely had some of these.

Nola.com - excellent coverag of the oil spill

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just as they (unfortunately) were for Katrina, nola.com is the place to go for coverage of the oil spill.