On my current jaunt to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to see the Darwin garden, I was too early for more than a few of the blooms in the Botanical Garden’s huge formal rose garden. It’s named for Peggy Rockefeller, source of the river of gold required to keep it going, but the rose garden’s true designer is landscape architect Beatrix Ferrand.

Ferrand worked her garden magic early in the 20th century. A woman in what was at the time a man’s profession, Ferrand isn’t as well known as she should be. No Wikipedia entry! A perfect project for some feminist green soul out there. Ferrand isn’t mentioned on the Botanical Garden website either — I learned that she designed the rose garden from a recorded tour guide.

A formal rose garden might not be your style. Not mine either; I like my roses rambling rather than clipped and managed to a fare-thee-well. But June in this enormous rose acreage is the ideal possible time and place to plan your own rose growing.

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What good is your iPhone or iPod touch if you can’t get to it? WindowSeat gives your device the best seat in the car by mounting handily at eye level on your car’s windshield or dashboard, putting all of your street maps, directions etc. safely in view and easily within reach. Attaches with silicone suction pads and allows easy access to dock connector and headphone jack. When you leave the vehicle, there’s a convenient corner-release which lets you easily detach your device to take it with you, while leaving the mount safely in place. A nice touch is the swiveling ball-and-socket joint which makes it easy to adjust the angle.

Conveniently, it can be used in conjunction with Griffin Technologys PowerJolt charger for iPhone and iPods.

Just out, you can pick it up for $29.99 at Griffin. Also available at Amazon.
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So some of you, apparently, don’t have an Apple Retail store near you. Well here’s your opportunity to own a part of an Apple Store for your very own. Proceeds go to charity.

This key part of the Apple GREEN MONSTER sign was lovingly rescued from the dumpster… carefully pulled apart from it’s sticky self, and backed on light paper.

I don’t know if I would want to spend the money on something like this (would rather save it for iPhone 2), but it is going to charity and it would look great in my shed next to my Laney banners.

Oh Well. Send us pics of how you’re displaying it if you win.

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The world has lost a comedic genius with the death of Harvey Korman. Most famous with his supporting and starring roles with Tim Conway and Carol Burnett, Korman recently lost his struggle with an aortic aneurysm in his abdomen.

LOS ANGELES - Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in “Blazing Saddles,” died Thursday. He was 81.

Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family stated. He had undergone several major operations.

The video clip above is one of my favorites of him and Tim Conway performing on the Carol Burnett show.

Source: Comic powerhouse Harvey Korman dies at 81

Tags: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway

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Two things immediately sprang to mind when I saw this new invention: “Why didn’t I think of that?” and “Where was this when I was in high school?”

From what I know, these Wordlocks are the first combination locks that grant you to set your combination using words rather than numbers. If you’re like me, and can’t remember a number sequence, these are for you. With a variety of products from padlocks (great for lockers, toolboxes, etc.), bike locks and TSA recognized luggage locks, you’ll never need to remember a number combination again.

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I would imagine that most people who own iPhones aready had one or two iPods, and that most people don’t use their iPhones as their only or, even primary, music player. That’s why this new charging station from Griffin Technology, PowerDock 2, makes a lot of sense. Priced around $50, It holds any combination of iPhones and iPods (as it comes with 6 universal dock adapters), and is now available at Apple (in stores and online), and will soon be available at Griffin’s online store.

And in July, iPod/iPhone hogs and Apple-loving families, will be able to park and charge their multitudes in the PowerDock 4, which will retail for around $70.

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Maybe because it’s spring, season of green, here in the Northern Hemisphere. Or maybe because of climate change or the parlous state of the world’s finances — unless you’re a citizen of, say, Saudi Arabia. But the sudden interest in ecoproducts and other greenmatter is pretty astonishing.

Here’s an entry that could hardly be more homely. Blogger DLTK lists 101 things to do with an empty cardboard toilet paper roll.

Most of these are kid items, like making bowling pins for a birthday party game. But a few are suitable for a kid-free household that’s nonetheless undergoing both greenmindedness and frugality.

For example, pencil cups. Wreaths (using 14-16 rolls per each, which is a lot of TP for a kid-free household. My condolences.)

Or what about holiday-themed napkin rings? Although that raises a perhaps insoluble issue in parts of the world overrun with applicances. Which is more ecologically sound: paper napkins? Or cloth napkins that must be laundered in hot water (and possibly, horrors, dried in a fuel-slurping dryer)?

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There is Free Mac stuff available for Snoop Dogg Fans. And you don’t even have to be a Snoop Dogg Fan. You just have to be willing to do a little design work for him.

Snoop Dogg is teaming up with the guys over at Crestock images and holding a design contest. Winners in each round get Mac merchandise, recognition on Snoop Dogg’s site, and Limited Edition Exclusive Snoop Dogg merchandise.

So head over to the site, take a look at the requirements, and get designing. And if you win, don’t forget to tell everybody that the guys at The After Mac told you about the opportunity.

Oh… and if you don’t know about Crestock, check them out while you’re there. They have a free stock photo each day and some pretty killer, affordable stock photography.

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Let me make it easy for all you marketers trying to “sneak” inside on the internet video.

Authenticity is good.

You can pitch a product in an pleasing viral fashion and be absolutely honest about it. I know of at least five guys and one girl who get good results doing just that, maintaining their credibility so they have the ability to leverage it to continue endorsing your products to engaged audiences. Have you gotten so used to disposable actors and disposable audiences that you can’t deal with real communities?

All it takes is one line in the video description. That’s it. It won’t kill you. Have you gotten so used to telling lies in offline media that you can’t type out one sentence of truth in on the internet media?

Authenticity will let you keep the viral buzz, minus the PR backlash. That’s good business in anyone’s book.

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At first, I was surprised to hear Playboy’s YouTube search for their 55th anniversary Playmate flopped. After all, the YouTube community is full of babes. After thinking about the culture of YouTube and the World wide web in general, however, it all starts to make sense.

As they state on the imageboards, tits or GTFO — and you can’t show tits on YouTube. Either take off your clothes, or do something cool. The handful of hopefuls who responded, alas, couldn’t do the former and didn’t do the latter. That’s why their views are mostly in the low thousands.

On the other hand, the YouTube babes most apt to do something cool are already online video stars. They don’t really need exposure in dead tree media, even dead tree media as legendary as Playboy.

Now if this contest had been run on a site that allows nudity — perhaps a site run by Playboy itself — things would have been very different. Hugh Hefner needs to get inside on the internet video in a way that’s true to the spirit of Playboy, glamorous nudity included.

Tags: Contests, Playboy, YouTube

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