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...those people who like to tinker constantly with home d?cor, you'll love MagScapes (magscapes.com)?the world's first magnetic wallpaper. Created by London-based design house Pepper-mint, it's as light and flexible as standard wallpaper, but the difference lies in magnetic motifs that can be attached and moved around at will, giving you the freedom to customize basic designs. There are three ranges available?DiscScape (colored discs on plain backing, resembling one of avant-garde artist Damien Hirst's famous "spot paintings...
...design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly interiors of the standard school bus. He hates dull, inexpressive Amtrak locomotives. He hates hermetic, inscrutable electronics. "Things should telegraph their ability to come apart. You can't tinker with things anymore...
...count, American Almanac is NBC's eleventh try at a newsmagazine since First Tuesday made its debut in 1969. NBC Chairman Grant Tinker has promised that he will give American Almanac enough time to find its viewers, a strategy wisely used by CBS for one of its news shows. That program spent its early years in the ratings cellar. At one point, the show was preempted to make room for football games. Only in 1975, seven years after its debut, did perseverance (and a regular Sunday time slot) pay off and the program begin to blossom in the ratings...
...Haviland continued to tinker with his pitching mechanics and perfect the curveball he’d come to rely so heavily upon. When he finally did grow—seven inches prior to his sophomore season—he skipped the transition required of the many hard throwers who then decide to become pitchers, and suddenly his coach wasn’t limiting him to playing shortstop any more...
...BitTorrent universe may be a step ahead of the lawyers. For every tracker site that's legally challenged and goes dark, another pops up. As open-source software, BitTorrent does not reside on a central site that can be shut down, and it continually evolves as software writers tinker with the code. A recent upgrade, called Exeem, blends the swarming technology with the more robust search capabilities of earlier peer-to-peer software; instead of visiting tracker sites, users enter a title in a search box and Exeem scours the Web for the file--making it trickier for the piracy...