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Iphone app filter 2009

Potomac Avenue — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:49:03 -0800

What are the most fun and useful I-phone apps? It's been about a year since the last general round up of the gems of the Iphone apps.

I'm a total noob so I just have Facemelter and Urban Spoon so far...what are the wackiest party-tricks, most useful (but not work-related) tools, and most oddball and addictive games that you all use?

I'd rather spend nothing but if its something you swear I'll use more than once I would pay a few bucks for it.

Exploring the "Dog Park" set.

wfrgms — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:31:44 -0800

Are "Dog Parks" a new indicator of urban gentrification? In the sense that the users of urban dog parks (dog friendly parks, where dogs can play leash-free) maybe more affluent, service workers, and participants in neighborhood revitalization.

I'm doing research on gentrification in Chicago, and I'm interested in novel indicators, or predictors of neighborhood change. (Starbucks has been done to death.)

Not really looking for anecdotes, but does anyone have any go-to links, news stories, and the like (citeable sources a plus) that I can examine? Any narrative would be useful.

I'm familiar with gentrifying parts of Chicago, but fuzzy on what neighborhoods in other cities are changing.

Towels!

jewzilla — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:55:15 -0800

I want to purchase the very best towels money can buy. Soft, absorbent, and not perpetually fluff-shedding. I can't find a robust source of reviews (who would review a towel, after all?) but I'm tired of spending too much money on too little towel. For example, amazon has one or two reviews that don't tell me much for almost every decent-looking towel in their inventory (I searched on Egyptian Cotton).

Any recommendations? What should I look for?