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Mary Norton Oscar Buzz

With the 81st Academy Awards just around the corner, Mary Norton has been busy accessorizing the Hollywood A-List. Check out Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson working with Mary earlier in...

Work
Factory Shell

If you've been to our offices at the Cigar Factory recently, you've probably noticed quite a bit of activity in the parking lot. We now have a bobcat, a backhoe,...

Life
TinyChat: Chat Rooms For Tiny Conversations

First disposable diapers, then disposable email addresses, now disposable chat rooms from tinychat. It's an easy way to create a super-simple chat room and invite some friends to join. We...

Marketing & Tech
The Death of Pontiac

Heartbreaking to see the demise of the Pontiac brand. The news is that GM may be cutting the division...following their decision to eliminate Saturn by 2012 in an effort to...

Life
Can I play with madness?

Like many of the great artists that preceded him, and very likely, sadly, will come after him, Anton Maiden was someone that died at a much too young age. [caption...

Life
ThinkTEC Innovation Summit Presentation

Enjoyed sharing some thoughts on creative industries, innovation and economic development this morning at ThinkTEC's Innovation Summit conference. While I was scheduled to be part of a panel discussion at...

Life
Water Silencer

CA finally had enough of the barking when visitors come in. After a cursory caging failed to rectify the problem behavior, a very surprised Vita was the recipient of an...

Team
Oscar Nominated Shorts

While these two shorts won't get all the attention of other Oscar-nominated films, they still demonstrate the power of bite-sized stories. Konstantin Bronzit’s “Lavatory Lovestory” Steph Green’s “New Boy”

Life
BLUE: Good For Creativity

Patrick at the Go To Team alerted me to this interesting Wired post on color's cognitive effects. The brainiac psychologists at UBC who fielded the study started with tests to...

Life
Nest Realty Group: A New Breed of Broker

Late last Friday night (January 30) we ushered a new brand, and a new Web presence, into the world and the Central Virginia community: Nest Realty Group. [caption id="attachment_1642" align="alignnone"...

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