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The Apple Keyboards Review

I have several Apple MacBook computers and a single Cinema Display; but one can never have too many keyboards.  As you can see below, I’ve gone wacky for the gorgeous, new, chicklet-style keyboards from Apple.  On the left is the wired “laptop” keyboard; next to it is the wired “full” keyboard with numeric keys; beneath that is the Bluetooth keyboard. All of these keyboards allow you to control the brightness of the screen and manage the starting and stopping of music or movies.

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The Silly SuperPoke Pets Review

UPDATE April 23, 2009:  After getting an inappropriate comment on this article
from Slide
this morning, my wife and I have decided to no longer play that game.  We’re over them.  Any links to our SuperPoke Pets sites are no longer active
and should be considered dead.  Why should we pay for that sort of
attitude from a company?  We’re voting with our money and the answer
is: “No thank you.”

I am addicted to SuperPoke Pets on Facebook!  Bonky, a monkey, is my adopted SuperPoke Pet and he’s currently living in a cornfield in space!

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Einstein and the Vatican Rock the Secular Universe

God believers have always held up Albert Einstein — the World’s Smartest Man — as evidence that God exists because they believe Einstein said God was real.

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The Nature of the Designer

The nature of the designer in society is to give shape and form to the abstract.

That means if an abstraction requires an unidentifiable form, the designer must work to provide cultural clues and provoke shared norms to make that unfamiliar form recognizable in the abstract unknown.

The designer’s strength is in the semiotic — but the world runs on the semantic — and so the designer must become the ultimate translator between the real and the imagined. 

That transliteration of economy leads to a richness of the human spirit and a flying out of the depths of worldly compromise.

If form is a factor that shapes vision, then the designer constructs the bones of the living.

Without design, we collapse into ourselves for a lack of infrastructure and we suffer the loss understanding indicating what we are and where we are going.

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Boles University

I had no idea there was a “Boles University” (no, there really isn’t one) until I received the Best Ever Direct Mail Campaign (yes, there really is one) yesterday.

Boles Direct

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David Boles Dot Com

I was able to recently procure the davidboles.com website address and if you go to that new address online it will take you to my main internet information portal of websites that I call The David W. Boles Entrepot.

When you author books or when you present information for sale online your brand becomes you.
When your brand is you, your name becomes your brand.

David Boles Dot Com is now alive so please feel free to bookmark the site and to visit us often.

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T-Shirt Appeal

According to the wikipedia definition, the t-shirt came to the United States initially by means of World War I soldiers who saw their European allies wearing cotton undershirts. It wasn’t until the 60’s that it became commonplace for manufacturers to design shirts with clever and sometimes offensive messages – and if you ever watch Showtime’s Queer as Folk, you know that this is ever more so the case today. In the last couple of weeks of not feeling well, something that has really cheered me up has been seeing a great number of extremely amusing t-shirts. I would like to highlight a number of shirts and Web Sites.

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