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This made me laugh… Responding to Colin Powell’s use of the phrase “The Pottery Barn Rule”to refer to the rule “You break it, you own it,” Williams-Sonoma, parent of Pottery Barn, has issued a press release stating that its policy is in fact to write-down breakage. I’m serious. Update: It has been brought to my…

It’s been almost two years since I sold something on eBay — and more than six years since my first sale on eBay. In that time, I’ve sold a stereo, a TV, a lawn mower, a laptop computer, and countless “little” things from around the house. This time I’m cleaning out our DVD collection —…

As I’m heading off to bed, this post by Mark Cuban put a smile on my face. I’m going to try to buy Mark a drink when I’m in Dallas next Thursday night. He’ll be busy, no doubt. And it probably won’t work… but there’s just something about his honesty that makes me want to…

KC’s Prevent Reply All/Forward in mail to other Outlook users. Now when the people you sent the mail to open it, the “Reply All” and “Forward” buttons will not be available on the toolbar. Similarly, the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+F will not work. Our corporation often ends up falling into the same email list pit…

Tami Silicio, who took the photographs of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers that The Seattle Times published on Sunday, has been let go from her job, along with her husband. [Mathew Gross] This is the offending photo: Photo by Tami Silicio I understand the firing — there was a policy in place, and she…

There is no such thing as a “virtual community.” There are only real communities that meet more or less frequently in person. [BookBlog] Adina is spot on — this artificial distinction between “real” and “virtual” is increasingly pointless. A community is defined by its affiliations, not by its mode of meeting.

Thanks to Jim McGee for catching this last week — it looks great: Going to need this.Small Pieces Loosely Joined for kids. David Weinberger is one of the most cogent and original thinkers about the meaning of the Net and the impact it has, and can have, on our lives and our society. As one…

Update 9/9/04: Rosemary Quigley passed away on Monday, 9/6. I wrote about this here. A vigil is being held Friday, 9/10, and funeral and burial are Saturday, 9/11 at 10am at St. Elizabeth’s in Acton. -Rick I just had the wind knocked out of me, and I feel blessed. (The appropriateness of the metaphor will…

OK — here’s a little game. Without Googling, without searching through your aggregator, go ahead and try and guess who this article is about: Her jacket hung loosely and the skirt was long — reaching to the mid-calf as always — and without any fetching details. Her lapels were two uninterrupted plains. … Notice the…

I met Matt at TechShow last year, and we had a brief conversation about using weblogs as part of your practice. He was excited about the possibilities weblogs represented for him — and here he is, just over twelve months later: an active blogger, an entrepreneur making the technology a key piece of his strategy…