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...affiliates can join the alert system by registering their cell phone numbers at the Web site messageme.harvard.edu. Another development for shuttle users is an LED screen in Cabot House’s dining hall, which displays the departure time and final destination of the next shuttle. The project, the brainchild of former Cabot House resident Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08, is now run by two resident tutors. Samuel H. Lipoff ’04 and Thomas J. Barnet-Lamb said they pulled several all-nighters last semester trying to program a computer to send...
...Network)Sundays, 11:45 p.m.Season Two Premiere: Nov. 18It’s highly unlikely that you’ve even heard of this show, much less seen its astonishing 11-minute capsules of neo-Futurism. Beyond the vague term of “sketch comedy,” this brainchild of “Tom Goes to the Mayor” creators Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim wholly defies description. Sometimes it takes the form of a local cable-access talent show featuring a diseased boy and his brother performing catchy tunes about how “life is Number...
Upon further investigation, I discovered that the T-shirts are not a new fashion at all. They debuted in 2000, and they are the brainchild of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a South African AIDS advocacy group. They were conceived of as a way to combat stigma against HIV and AIDS after a South African activist in the country was killed owing to popular disapproval of her openness about her own HIV-positive status...
...card-swipe kiosks were a brainchild of Dr. Marty Baker, pastor of Stevens Creek Community Church in Augusta, Georgia. They were so successful in his own church that he now markets the devices privately and has placed them in 35 congregations across the U.S. "People don't carry cash," he says, noting that total income from contributions has increased 18% since the first kiosk was installed in 2005. Coins and paper money now account for less than 5% of that total...
...naturally, the city is attempting to take the next step towards disincentivizing driving by imposing a fee on motorists who enter lower Manhattan on weekdays. The planned congestion tax, a brainchild of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, has been proceeding slowly through the Albany mire that is the New York State Legislature—now, as a result of a recent political deal, its chances of approval are looking good...