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Just Launched: Card-o-Mat

We're happy announce the launch of the new Card-o-Mat site, a boutique card and gift store located in the Upper West Side. Check out their selection of unique gifts and the hand selected cards by owner Rosalie Manning. The site was built on the Expression Engine.

Visit the site: www.cardomatnyc.com

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Goodbye summer interns!

Delicious internship closing lunch at Convivio. Thanks Hiemann and Jenny, welcome Kevin.

         
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Reliable Teacher Hagwon Review

For the past month, we've been working to improve Reliable Teacher Hagwon Review, a website that allows teachers to review and rate English hagwons in South Korea.

A hagwon is a for-profit enrichment school that many kids in Korea attend after school. They have hagwons for all sorts of subjects, and English hagwons are one of the most popular types. As you can guess, it's part of an education system that favors the wealthy, and a great deal of money is poured into the industry. This, in turn, attracts thousands of teachers from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and other English-speaking countries.

The goal of Hagwon Review is to provide these teachers with accurate information on the numerous English hagwons (some are quite unscrupulous). Our goal is to compile a comprehensive collection of reviews & ratings and to grow the directory to accomodate as many hagwons as possible. We're pretty excited about how much the site has improved in just the past few weeks, and we've received encouraging feedback from our users. In the future, we hope to provide job posting services for hagwons and more resources for teachers. Let us know what you think!

Visit the site: www.hagwonreview.com

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Contemplating Getting One of These Too...

Time to pick up that company ride before the SUV tax break runs out (we're no CPAs but we think it's still valid for 2009). We'd be getting 12 mpg driving around NYC, but what other car can comfortably climb up mountains and ford rivers in so much style? If our numbers are right, the first year we can deduct 25k plus 20% of the difference for depreciation. Before we alienate our green clients, check out the energy efficient alternative...

   
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Just Launched: The Golandsky Institute

We're pleased to announce the launch of a new site for The Golandsky Institute, a non-profit organization that teaches the Taubman Approach and helps pianists overcome technical limitations as well as cure playing-related injuries. The site was built on Expression Engine and includes various archiving functionality, registration for its annual conference, and a store for books, DVDs, and downloadable videos.

Visit the site: www.golandskyinstitute.org

   
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New Brink Issue: July 2009

The 10th issue of Brink Magazine is now up for your reading pleasure. This issue features two poetry and two fiction pieces along with our first ever book review (Victor Lodato's Mathilda Savitch) and cool fiber art by Heather MacKenzie.

Check it out: www.brinklit.com

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Contemplating Getting One of These...

It's like the Chia Obama reflects a younger Obama as it grows (click to see the animation).

   
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Video Canon

We're always down to watch entertaining videos online, especially the funny ones. Over time, we noticed that we returned to certain videos over and over again or found ourselves referencing them in our conversations. We eventually decided that it'd be nice to organize and share our favorites with everyone, so we put together the Barrel Video Canon, a (growing) collection of our favorite online video clips. You may have seen a good number of these videos, but there's no harm in watching them again.

If our taste in videos jives with yours, we strongly encourage you to submit a video that's not on the list -- we'd love to keep on expanding our collection. Enjoy!

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Just Launched: PlugServer Preview Site

As a gadget-loving crew, we're excited to be working on a website for PlugServer, a small device that acts as your own private server, allowing you to manage email accounts, hosting websites, and share files. We recently launched a simple one-page website that introduces the PlugServer. In the coming months, we'll be working on the UI of the PlugServer web app and also adding new features to the public website.

Visit: www.plug-server.com

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Just Launched: Astrum Solar

We're happy to announce the launch of Astrum Solar's brand new website. Astrum Solar, based in Maryland, offers top-notch solar installation services to homes in the Maryland/Washington D.C. area. Astrum Solar also helps homeowners reap immediate returns from going solar through its solar renewable energy credit (SREC) program (www.astrumsrecs.com),

Visit: www.astrumsolar.com

     
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