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“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Obsessed With Google, Copyright Holders Ignore The Actual Pirated Content

infoneer-pulse:

When it comes to online piracy, copyright holders have an obsession with Google. Every month the search engine is asked to take down links to millions of URLs to help stop the unauthorized distribution of their work. Strangely enough, many copyright holders fail to target the root of the problem as they don’t make the effort to send takedown requests to the originating websites.

» via TorrentFreak

Google had 1,344,885 takedown requests?!! I wonder how many pages that entailed.

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nypl: It’s time to find the Easter eggs and see what goodies the Easter Bunny has brought!  Did you know that Easter Bunny traditions originated in Germany, with the first edible Easter Bunny being made of sugar and pastries instead of chocolate? And to think, today billions of chocolate Easter bunnies are made each year. In between easter egg hunts and eating our fair share of chocolate, one of our favorite children’s books to read at Easter is Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit. What’s your favorite Easter book? Happy Easter! (Check out more Easter postcards in the NYPL Digital Gallery.)

nypl:

It’s time to find the Easter eggs and see what goodies the Easter Bunny has brought! 

Did you know that Easter Bunny traditions originated in Germany, with the first edible Easter Bunny being made of sugar and pastries instead of chocolate? And to think, today billions of chocolate Easter bunnies are made each year.

In between easter egg hunts and eating our fair share of chocolate, one of our favorite children’s books to read at Easter is Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit. What’s your favorite Easter book?

Happy Easter!

(Check out more Easter postcards in the NYPL Digital Gallery.)

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fastcodesign: A Look Inside The Sketchbooks Of 10 Terrific Creatives “A sketchbook is like a valve, a pressure release system,” the German designer Daniel Kluge tells Richard Brereton, the author of Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives. “Instead of weighing things up in my head, I give them a place in my sketchbook. Sketches are like embryos, and as soon as they have been realized, they are born and start to live.” And here is the full story and more sketches.

fastcodesign:

A Look Inside The Sketchbooks Of 10 Terrific Creatives

“A sketchbook is like a valve, a pressure release system,” the German designer Daniel Kluge tells Richard Brereton, the author of Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives. “Instead of weighing things up in my head, I give them a place in my sketchbook. Sketches are like embryos, and as soon as they have been realized, they are born and start to live.”

And here is the full story and more sketches.

(via fastcompany)

Filed under creative break sharpenthesaw

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motherjones: While working on an assignment to capture how people made use of the streets in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena discovered an unusual perspective on commuting. We love this photo essay. (Photo by Alejandro Cartagena) So dangerous…and a bit voyeuristic! Makes for some really interesting photos!

motherjones:

While working on an assignment to capture how people made use of the streets in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena discovered an unusual perspective on commuting.

We love this photo essay.

(Photo by Alejandro Cartagena)

So dangerous…and a bit voyeuristic! Makes for some really interesting photos!

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thenextweb: Staying focused and motivated enough to actually complete a New Year’s resolution is never easy, but with ResolutionTweet, it’s almost effortless to keep track of your goals and spur on other people. The app, available on iOS and Android, is a productivity tool centered around long-term objectives and subtle life changes, rather than tackling a list of chores or work-related tasks on a daily basis. (via ResolutionTweet: This app helps you set new goals and actually achieve them - The Next Web) Very useful app; I can’t wait to see tracking functionality improve with further updates!

thenextweb:

Staying focused and motivated enough to actually complete a New Year’s resolution is never easy, but with ResolutionTweet, it’s almost effortless to keep track of your goals and spur on other people. The app, available on iOS and Android, is a productivity tool centered around long-term objectives and subtle life changes, rather than tackling a list of chores or work-related tasks on a daily basis. (via ResolutionTweet: This app helps you set new goals and actually achieve them - The Next Web)

Very useful app; I can’t wait to see tracking functionality improve with further updates!

(via fastcompany)