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#winning with #branding (at Fresh Market)

#Dreamy #dog day afternoon (at Former Easton Rifle Range)

At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales)

parislemon:

Brooks Barnes for The New York Times:

MyMagic+ will allow users of a new Web site and app — called My Disney Experience — to preselect three FastPasses before they leave home for rides or V.I.P. seating for parades, fireworks and character meet-and-greets. Orlando-bound guests can also preregister for RFID bracelets. These so-called MagicBands will function as room key, park ticket, FastPass and credit card.

MagicBands can also be encoded with all sorts of personal details, allowing for more personalized interaction with Disney employees. Before, the employee playing Cinderella could say hello only in a general way. Now — if parents opt in — hidden sensors will read MagicBand data, providing information needed for a personalized greeting: “Hi, Angie,” the character might say without prompting. “I understand it’s your birthday.”

Love it or hate it, this is absolutely the future of this kind of experience.

the internet of things will soon ram right into parental data privacy concerns. not to mention how afraid folks will be to lose their wrist band. but, yes, the future is getting here

"Fantasists and zealots can be found on both sides of the debate over guns in America. On the one hand, many gun-rights advocates reject even the most sensible restrictions on the sale of weapons to the public. On the other, proponents of stricter gun laws often seem unable to understand why a good person would ever want ready access to a loaded firearm. Between these two extremes we must find grounds for a rational discussion about the problem of gun violence."

— The Riddle of the Gun : Sam Harris (via fred-wilson)

jreuss:

He kept disappearing

2012. Acrylics & charcoal on canvas. 70 x 50 cm

By: John Reuss

This really caught my eye: It’s very burning man, don’t you think? I’ve never been to burning man though.

Camera: Canon EOS 450D
Aperture: f/7.1
Exposure: 1/20th
Focal Length: 51mm

Out to Lunch (at Las Vetas Lounge)

Wow, what a remarkable statistic from the other day. what’s it mean? Apple wins, again.

(Source: parislemon)

BuzzFeed: Statement of Mayors Against Illegal Guns on Newtown, Connecticut Shooting

nycgov:

“With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to…

yes.