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Fast Company Magazine Your employees have agreed to sacrifice their comfort in exchange for energy savings. You turn down the thermostat, everyone dons a sweater, and it's all good, right? Not so fast.
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A new study from energy efficiency company Johnson Controls shows that while 69% of U.S. office workers (in an 800-person survey) are willing to forgo comfort for the sake of energy conservation, 78% of workers feel that their productivity lowers when the temperature is uncomfortable.

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If you check your email while driving, in the bathroom or on a date, you could be addicted to the Internet. At least it's safer for you now if you live in China.
China has banned the use of physical punishment to cure Internet addicts, according to a report in CIO, a publication of the International Data Group.
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According to IDG, the Chinese clinics are frequently used to treat distant, isolated, or academically lazy students. The "boot-camp" style institutions came to the attention of Chinese officials after reports of severe beatings and at least one death. They are also known to use electro-shock therapy...

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7-Eleven's new brand of house wines, Yosemite Roads, is cheaper than a 6-pack, too--$3.99 a bottle. The convenience store chain best known for Big Gulps and Slim Jims is following in the footsteps of Wal-Mart,Costco, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe's with their new branded wines.
But is it any good? Tune in tomorrow for a special Fast Company taste test.
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Now you can pull off the road, pop into 7-Eleven and grab a chardonnay with stone fruit tones or a plum-like cabernet sauvignon, both of which pair perfectly with Go-Go Taquitos or a 1/4-pound Big Bite.

Fast Company Magazine Bits 'n' Pieces: High-tech Design. Take a Look.
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A sizable chunk of today's cutting-edge design wouldn't have been possible just ten years ago--the materials and technologies have advanced that fast. A new design show, "Bits 'n' Pieces", is dedicated to that theme. Sponsored by Material ConneXion, a resource library for designers, it opened Novemb...

Fast Company Magazine "Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account?" Google asks, and privacy advocates and techy-minded people will quickly answer "YES!" Now Google's Dashboard lets you see, but not delete, what's stored about you in Google's vault of mysteries.
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The news will please those who are concerned that Google's business involves it storing large (and possibly vast, deep and highly personal) datafiles on how you interact with its search engine, mail and other services. That's probably why Google chose to reveal Dashboard at an international data-pro...

Fast Company Magazine Big League Chew: Phils Out-Spit Yanks
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To quote the late, great sportscaster Jim McKay, "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" never looked better than in high-definition TV. The pristine, crystal clarity of the widescreen image adoringly captures an athlete's grace, strength, speed and--in the case of baseball--his saliva.

Fast Company Magazine The Marcel Wanders Collection You Won't See at Target This Holiday
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The latest fancypants designer to succumb to the hypnotizing pulse of the red bullseye is none other than our 2008 Master of Design, Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. When we first heard about the collaboration, we wondered if his Moooi mentality could even be adapted for mass production. Would Wanders...

Fast Company Magazine An exclusive gala reception with the luminaries who are making an impact on the future of architecture, interiors, brand identity, and product design, as featured in our October issue.

Fast Company Magazine Angry Store Owner Assaults Yelp Reviewer Who Called Her Store "a Total Mess"
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Man pans bookstore on Yelp. Bookstore owner tracks him down, writes harassing emails, and tries to break into his house. Man responds by calling police--and Yelping about the entire experience.

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Books and beer are more than just a great late-night combination;
they're also both integral to Magdeburg, Germany's new Open Air
Library.
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The pop-up library started with the facade of an old warehouse and ended up as an open-air library constructed out of over 1,000 beer cartons. The library, which was built by Karo Architekten and local community members, features a reading cafe and stage for cultural events. Since being announced in...

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After a single airliner went ever so slightly astray because
its flight crew were using laptops in the cockpit, lawmakers are poised
to bring regulations crashing down that forbid almost any kind of
gadget being used by pilots.
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All this fuss is about Northwest Flight 188 a few weeks ago. During a regular, unsurprising and otherwise uneventful flight to Minneapolis the plane, which was carrying 144 passengers, dropped out of contact with air traffic controllers. As a result it ignored flight direction instructions and repea...

Fast Company Magazine Branding the '09 Political Races, and Rebranding the Tainted Republican Image
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Since it's election day, let's play an election-themed guessing game. Each of the following screen shots is from the Web site of a politician up for election today. Can you guess their party affiliations? ...

Fast Company Magazine MoMA is sponsoring a workshop aiming for new solutions for sheltering the city's threatened waterfront: A renewed dedication to public-interest issues, not just design theorizing.
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New York's Museum of Modern Art is lending a hand, hoping to solve some of the city's environmental headaches. Starting on November 16th, they're gathering a select group of architects, engineers, and landscape designers, and then more or less locking them in a room for eight weeks. The assignment:...

Fast Company Magazine Is the death of the DVD upon us? How do you watch movies at home?
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Best Buy and Roxio CinemaNow announced a partnership today that wil result in a whole new movie downloading service. It'll apparently be integrated into pretty much every web-enabled device Best Buy sells too, which is a good way of ensuring success.
























