Monthly Archives: March 2010

Promotional copy for Battlefield Bad Company 2 on the Logitech website:

A snoring man can reach 85 decibels, making as much racket as a vacuum cleaner or a blender mashing margaritas. Sleepwalkers have been known to cook and eat full meals and even have sex during sleep. Narcoleptics can nod off at any time — during conversations, meals and while operating heavy machinery. Fatal Familial Insomnia, a rare brain-wasting disease, throws people into a fit of wakefulness that eventually kills them.

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The allure of a safari through the Serengeti or a trek up Kilimanjaro may inspire you to strike out for the heart of Africa, but before you make like Hemingway, there are a few things you should know. The huge continent is teeming with bug-borne, water-borne and human-borne diseases. Malaria poses one of the greatest threats to travelers, but yellow fever, cryptosporidiosis and African sleeping sickness are real dangers as well.

They started on the track, rocketing around velodromes at high velocity; then the bike messengers snatched them up, looking for light, fast, uber-reliable bikes that could withstand hellish urban war zones; then the hipsters caught wind, drawn to their clean lines and vintage looks. Now you want in on the action, and you’re eying your first fixed-gear bike.

Comprehensive Reviewer’s Guide for Aperture 3:

Dentist Bia Kunze had a simple idea: If you can’t make it to the dentist, the dentist will come to you. Kunze is a mobile dentist in Brazil, treating house or hospital-bound patients in and around the city of Curitiba. To manage her practice on the go, she uses Bento for iPhone.

“I have a Bento database on my phone where I keep all of my patients’ records, including appointments, medical history, and dental diagrams,” she says. “It’s the easiest, most flexible solution for keeping records on the go. With Bento on the iPhone, I have everything I need to run my practice in my pocket.”

Bento rocks. Just ask Heather St. Marie, the lead singer of the Los Angeles-based rock band Hydrovibe. She uses Bento to keep track of concert venues, band merchandise, and more. The database program has become the band’s electronic administrative assistant, handling all the day-to-day data that keeps the band going. “ This is pretty much a personal assistant for me,” says St. Marie. “It’s taking a lot of effort out of the admin side of things. It gives me more time to be the singer, be the merchandise person and to just be a band member.”

Copy for Palm Treo 500v, a Europe-only smartphone.

Graduating from OIART is only the beginning. Thankfully, Robert Breen is there to get things started. His official title is “Career Development and Industry Relations,” but to OIART grads, he’s much more. He’s a coach, a personal agent, and a headhunter that’ll help track down good gigs in the industry. “I get to know all of the students on a personal level, get to see them in sessions, do fake job interviews with them, make them cold call me as if I were a potential employer, help them with resumes,” he says. “I teach them how to find work and network. Then I go hunting for job postings and employment opportunities. Because I know them personally, I know what they’re looking for and where they’ll fit in.”

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