This Gaming Life

This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities by Jim Rossignol is an inspiring book + Jim provides excellent insights into gaming history and culture + the impact.

Useful link:
http://rossignol.cream.org

BPP And Paying Bus Drivers in HK

Chaim Even Zohar writes about the guilty verdict against Tse Sui-luen, founder of the listed Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (TSL) empire, and four others, for paying illegal commissions to travel agencies, bus drivers and tour guides to ensure a flow of customers to the company's showrooms + DTC's Best Practice Principles (BPP)/pros and cons + other viewpoints @ http://www.idexonline.com/portal_FullEditorial.asp

I think Chaim Even Zohar was spot on.

Philips + Swarovski Designs

Philips + Swarovski = USB memory keys + Earphones = Multifunctional (designed by women, for women).

Useful links:
www.active-crystals.com
www.consumer.philips.com
www.swarovskisparkles.com

Beautiful designs. I liked it.

Color Specialist + Trend Predictor

Leatrice Eiseman is a color specialist + trend predictor who has been called America’s color guru. She is the author of Colors For Your Every Mood + Pantone Guide to Communicating With Color + More Alive With Color + Color Answer Book.

Useful link:
www.colorexpert.com

Carbon Footprints

(via Wired) The Brookings Institute has released a new 80-page report detailing the carbon footprints of the residents of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.

Useful link:
www.brookings.edu

I think the findings by the Brookings Institute was informative, educational and insightful. My view is as we gain better access to data and models, local and state governments worldwide should make decisions that will build the cleanest, most livable, most energy efficient cities.

Heard On The Street

The world I’m looking at is filled with inconveniences, and inconsistency about prices. People should be looking at diamond prices and questioning them. We are at the beginning of a real roller-coaster ride. If Rapaport’s increase of 25% is frightening, I’m sorry but that is the world we are living in. If gold can go to $1,000, then hit $880, the same thing can happen to diamond prices. That’s why I’m asking people: Please, don’t speculate. The prices on the Rapaport list are the opinon of Martin Rapaport.

- Martin Rapaport

The Winelands Of Britain

The Winelands of Britain: Past, Present and Prospective by Richard C. Selley is an interesting book on the potential of vineyards in Britain, today and in the future.

Useful links:
www.winelandsofbritain.co.uk
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange

Gustav Klimt

(via Wiki) Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism--nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil.

Gustav Klimt's art works will be exhibited at Tate Liverpool, May 30-August 31, 2008.
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

Useful links:
www.expo-klimt.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt