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...more industrial materials find their way into our homes, worker-drone felt, the gray stuff used in refrigerator engines and as gaskets, has moved in too. The Feltup chair, from Minneapolis, Minn., designers Blu-Dot, uses felt made from recycled sweaters and socks for its slinglike seat. Furniture-design team Burning Relic makes a table with a 1-in.-thick slab of felt. British designer Anne Kyyro uses felt on blinds and lampshades...
Everything I read about the web these days is so funereal. Dot-bombs. Elegies for the good old days. F*ckedcompany.com. It's as though the web was some terrific science experiment that didn't pan out. People love to say the Internet is dead. And then of course there's all the schadenfreude oozing out of the old media types just aching to say, "I told...
...Condemning Internet entrepreneurs for launching too many businesses too quickly is like criticizing a thirsty guy for drinking too much water. It was promiscuous VCs, after all, who were throwing money at anything with a dot-com in its name. When I last checked, it was the business types who were supposed to make sure the companies they invested in had sound business plans. And it was the analysts who were supposed to figure out what could make money and what couldn...
...American Consumer, in continuing to go where Mr. and Mrs. CEO fear to tread - namely, the marketplace - have kept the economy?s pulse going since January and will likely have to keep it up for the rest of the year if we?re to avoid paying for the dot-com boom with a bona fide recession...
...That bit of dot-com nostalgia, however, pales in comparison to last week?s dose, in which JDS Uniphase, highest-flying of the tech-infrastructure high-flyers, reported that it had lost about $50 billion in Q2. As the NYT editorial page was stirred to note Sunday, that "may be the biggest loss in corporate history...