Archive for August, 2006

Starbucks in Decline: The Slow Sad Death of a Beloved Mega-Brand

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Did you wake up this morning thinking about the great cup o' joe you were going to grab at Starbucks on your way in to work (and the great small talk you were going to have with that cute barista)? Perhaps it was just a dreamy remembrance of Starbucks-past...
That's what Lensmaster Mark Rovner thinks. Here's [...]

Car Camping

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I recently asked our new MVP group of lensmasters, the Citizen Squids*, what lenses they'd like to see featured. So here without any further adieu is today's Lens of the Day pick, courtesy of lensmaster Angela Harms:
"Are your kids begging to go camping? Maybe you haven’t done it since Boy Scouts, or maybe never. But [...]

Cute Animal Pictures

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

No, it's not Easter in a Hallmark store.
(But yes, it is full of fuzzy baby animals).
Today's Lens of the Day puts me in mind of the massively popular site Cuteoverload.com. As a gal who won't be caught dead wearing pink, I was pretty skeptical of cute-ANYthing until I was introduced to Cuteoverload by none other [...]

The US Open

Monday, August 28th, 2006

The US Open starts today Squidooers, who are you rooting for?
Lensmaster Bob Jenkins is clearly showing his support for Roger Federer (he wonders out loud if he is the best tennis player ever):
http://www.squidoo.com/federer/
Federer, though, has lost all but one match this year against Rafael Nadal, who is backed by another tennis-loving lensmaster here:
http://www.squidoo.com/nadal/
Think both [...]

“Battle Born” and “South Carolina”

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Welcome to a special quickie edition of Lens of the (Satur-)Day.
Please congratulate Rachel Schwarz and Curtis Hart for both winning runner-up in the Squidoo Travel Challenge.
Rachel's well-written entry was BattleBorn: A Nevada Travel Guide--the story of two friends who decided after 15 years of friendship that going car camping together was a brilliant idea--while Curtis [...]

Great Wall of China

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Winning entry for The Squidoo Travel Challenge!

The Singularity–A Complete Guide

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A confluence of events:
I read The Singularity Is Near a few months back; then I saw the author, Ray Kurzweil, holding his own on The Daily Show last night; then today I ran across Marc's great lens on the book!
http://www.squidoo.com/theSingularity.
Besides the really great links Marc serves up, and the reviewed Amazon books, I also liked [...]

The Perfect Pen: How to Get Published

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

"Whenever I'm on book tour I get more questions about how to get published and how to write a novel than I do about my books!.. That's why I've decided to share what I know about getting published here on Squidoo."
Ladies and gentleman, that's bestselling author Connie Briscoe. She's made an absolutely fantastic, detailed lens [...]

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