Elizabeth Yarborough

Elizabeth Yarborough's jewelry wool and cashmere wrapped bangle bracelets were beautiful, especially the colors and patterns.

Go to www.yarboroughjewelry.com for further information.

Carol LaFayette

Carol LaFayette's virtual project, nondestructively mapping an ant colony via ground-penetrating radar was brilliant. To me it looked like an abstract art. I liked it.

Useful links:
http://clafayette.com
www.siggraph.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7563372.stm

Random Thoughts

A brand is a person's gut feeling about a product, service, or organization. That's my short definition. The brand isn't what you say it is. It's what they say it is.

- Marty Neumeier
www.neutronllc.com

I agree.

Business Innovation Factory

If you want to hear great people tell stories of innovation and how to apply it, go to www.businessinnovationfactory.com

Simon Lovell

I found Intelligent Life's article on Simon Lovell + how swindlers operate @ http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/how-to-cheat-at-everything interesting and educational. A must read.

Useful link:
www.simonlovell.com

But ultimately, anyone can be conned, if you have the balls to do it.
- Simon Lovell

As they say, you have to really know what you are doing, and Simon knows it too well.

Heard On The Street

Buy high and sell higher.

Lars Dalgaard

Lars Dalgaard, CEO/Founder of SuccessFactors, Inc, a global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, is the winner of 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award. Congratulations!

Useful links:
www.successfactors.com
www.ey.com

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, opening in spring 2008, will be the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art and open to the public all year round.

A must visit.

Useful links:
www.kew.org
www.kew.org/press/shirley_sherwood.htm
www.economist.com/daily/columns/artview/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11950681