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Sunday, October 13, 2013

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

This Giant Lego Calendar Syncs Automatically With Your Smartphone

gizmodo.com: Even though your schedule is constantly at your fingertips via smartphone, everyone gets a little off track every once in a while. So the creative studio Vitamins dreamt up a solution that bridges real-life and online schedules: A giant Lego calendar that syncs up with smartphones.
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Can Playing With Lego Make You More Creative?

Co.Exist | ideas + impact: If successful companies and societies of this next century are defined by their ability to innovate--a trope repeated constantly in business seminars, surveys, and speeches--then the U.S. may be headed for a rough time: On average, Americans’ ability to think creatively has declined.
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Ladder Safety now a smartphone application

Theatre Safety Blog: NIOSH has released its first smart phone application (app) for mobile devices. This free app is aimed at improving extension ladder safety by providing real-time safety information delivered via the latest technology. Falls from ladders are a persistent source of workplace injuries.
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What's The Best Personal Project Management Tool?

lifehacker.com: When your to-dos turn into projects, you need a tool that can help you organize all of the work you have to do, the work others have to do, and when it all needs to get done. Something bigger than a to-do list, but still easy to use. This week, we want to know which tools you think are the best.
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Why Should Stage Hands At Carnegie Hall Make $400,000?

Forbes: Maybe the real question should be, why shouldn’t they? Carnegie Hall isn’t a branch of government. It’s a private non-profit largely supported by donor dollars from wealthy patrons. Sanford Weill, former CEO and chairman of Citigroup, is the organization’s chairman and donated a substantial sum to renovate its chamber music theater. The carpenters and electricians at Carnegie Hall do highly specialized work and log plenty of hours of overtime.
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