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Ritz-Carlton’s Phulay Bay Opens

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., recognized as the global leader in luxury hotels, service and lifestyle, is proud to announce the opening of its debut Reserve property, Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, today in Krabi, Southern Thailand.
As the world’s first Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Phulay Bay embodies the attributes, philosophy and unique style and design [...]

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Burberry goes 3D at London Fashion Week

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s chief creative officer, said: ‘We are very excited we are hosting the first ever truly global fashion show. ‘This unprecedented event will enable people to experience the energy and atmosphere of this show from around the world. ‘3D technology will bring our global audience into the London show space allowing them [...]

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Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

This should be interesting, as Gmail becomes more “Facebooky:”
Google Inc. is taking a swipe at Facebook Inc. with a new feature that makes it easier and faster for users of Gmail to view media and status updates shared by their friends. Google could announce the new Gmail feature as soon as this week, said people [...]

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Tamara Mellon, The Foot Behind Jimmy Choo

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Founder Tamara Mellon knocked down a wall to make room for her large accessories collection:
Ms. Mellon, founder of the Jimmy Choo label, known for its towering stilettos worn by the characters on “Sex and the City,” hired a contractor to knock down a wall and expand her closet by six feet to help accommodate [...]

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James Cameron VS Kathryn Bigelow – The Oscars’ Battle of the Exes

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

“Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow faces off against ex-husband and “Avatar” director James Cameron in two Oscar categories. Hollywood is taking sides:
By all accounts, Mr. Cameron and Ms. Bigelow, who were married from 1989 to 1991, have an amicable relationship and even continue to share their work with one another.
In mid-January, Mr. Cameron complimented his [...]

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Angelo Badalamenti on how he wrote the Twin Peaks theme with David Lynch

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote the Twin Peaks Love Theme on an old Fender Rhodes sitting alongside David Lynch.

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Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Martin Scorsese’s dark, twisty detective thriller “Shutter Island” is set in 1954, in the full flowering of what W. H. Auden had, just a few years earlier, called the Age of Anxiety. “I don’t know, maybe I’m stuck in that time,” Mr. Scorsese said recently, sounding a little weary as he talked about a film [...]

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Soft drink consumption may increase risk of pancreatic cancer

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Not to mention, soda is terrible for ruining your teeth’s enamel:
Consuming two or more soft drinks per week increased the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by nearly twofold compared to individuals who did not consume soft drinks, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for [...]

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Watch Super Bowl Commercials

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Like the commercial and not the game? Here at Pursuitist, we’ll begin posting Super Bowl 2010 Commercials. The Super Bowl kick off time will start at 6:25pm EST. The big game will be played against the Indianapolis Colts Vs the New Oreleans Saints. Both the teams would battle it out in a few hours from [...]

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How much food will be consumed during the Super Bowl?

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

This is quite amazing, have you ever wondered how much food will be consumed during big Super Bowl Sunday? Here’s a quick run down.
8 million: Total pounds of popcorn consumed on Super Bowl Sunday.
28 million: Pounds of potato chips consumed.
53.5 million: Pounds of avocados consumed.
222,792: Number of football fields worth of farmland to grow all [...]

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The Bathroom Reinvented

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

In the first video of a two-part series, New York based firm Smart Design examines the intersection between Universal Design principles and the limitations of public bathrooms.

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Large Hadron Collider In Action

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions. This week, team led by researchers from MIT, CERN and the KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics in Budapest, Hungary, completed work on the first scientific paper analyzing the results of those [...]

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Shackleton’s Whiskey Found Buried Near South Pole

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by Patrick.

Here’s an amazing story — we’re looking forward to tasting the Mackinlay’s Rare Old Scotch – Shackleton Edition.
It’s probably the most sought-after scotch in history – crates of whiskey buried in Antarctica by the famed explorer Ernest Shackleton a century ago. He abandoned them on a failed attempt to reach the South Pole in 1909, [...]