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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

What Will Apple's Patent Case Mean For Phone Design?

All Tech Considered : NPR: A lot of thought goes into giving your smartphone a distinctive look and feel, from the shape of the speaker — square, round or oval — to where to put the buttons — side, front or back. But industrial designers like Robert Brunner say he doesn't have a lot of room to be creative.
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The Truth About Burning Man

huffingtonpost.com: "Really?" the guy at the Alamo Rental Car place said, when I'd told him about Burning Man. "I heard it was just a lot of naked people running around on drugs." Coated in gypsum dust, and still high not on drugs but on the altered consciousness of radical creativity and community, I had just tried to describe what Burning Man is, somehow. I think I'd said something like, "It's a temporary city of 50,000 people, devoted to radical self-expression. So you'll find anything you'd find in a regular city -- art museums, dance clubs, yoga studios -- only in the middle of the desert, with no money, and with more creativity than you've ever seen."
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2013 Best Colleges Preview: Top 25 National Universities

US News and World Report: Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications, and then, if you’re lucky, choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you’ll call home for the next few years.
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Allegheny County pulls plug on holiday lights at Hartwood Acres

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Citing rising costs, tight finances and less sponsorship, Allegheny County is pulling the plug on the Celebration of Lights at Hartwood Acres this Christmas season. "The event was getting costlier and costlier, and more and more of the expense was shifting over to the county," County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said today.
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Unigo: Top 10 Wired College Campuses

huffingtonpost.com: Do you need access to Facebook and Twitter at all times? Whenever you walk into a room are you instantly scouring for outlets and checking for a wifi network? If so, you'll definitely need to consider these schools that students have raved are the most technologically wired campuses in the 2012 Unigo College Rankings!
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