February 2012
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Failed Jeremy Lin Headline Puns
LINner ear infection
Abraham LINcoln
White LINfandel
Dorsal LIN
LINsay Lohan
Terms of LINderment
LINt roller
Now is the LINter of our discontent
LINdow washer
LINsider Trading
also
Jeremery Irons
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“All it actually means is that even when one remembers something one did not...”
– Kate
January 2012
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“It disturbs me the way turducken does, like as a close cousin to cannibalism....”
– Swallowed by a whale — a true tale? - Salon.com
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December 2011
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Louis CK Single-Handedly Undermines All Imagined... →
How weird is it that this could happen at the exact same time congress is listing to the bozo’s trying to push SOPA through?
“The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a...”
– Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (via drinkyourjuice) This friends, is the most important article you’ll read today. (via shortformblog)
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Louis
Louis CK: comedian AND expert brand manager.
That there is the note you find when buying Louis CK’s new comedy special and while not quite as progressive as Radioheads “pay if you want’ model, it’s another great example of how a really well managed brand doesn’t need to fear it’s customers or pirates or whatever.
The fact is: someone (probably a lot of...
November 2011
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“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via nomoreundead)
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“The point of grammar is to facilitate clear and precise communication, to make...”
– —John Green (via runalovegood)
This guy gets it.
(via sylviawrath)
Someone needs to tell all the AP kids….
(via zeenie)
I think this is mostly true, but not entirely true.
As someone who’s grasp of even basic grammatical rules is fleeting at best, and who is a fairly firm believer in...
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Blouse
apropos of the previous post:
I was in the future yesterday
October:
Well before shooting was scheduled to start, Rob, Ned, and I were at the warehouse to supervise the set up of what would serve as our laboratory. In one corner of the huge space, the plumbers were at work rigging a system that would allow us to precisely control the temperature of the water coming to the sink, and to measure...
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October 2011
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the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
understatementblog:
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
Yeah - this is going to be a problem. It’s striking to me that...
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Advertising is a poison that demeans even love –... →
“Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we’re hooked on it”
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The Bank of Starbucks →
This seems like a really terrific idea.
A great example of where the convergence of economies of scale a corporation can bring to bear with individuals doing what they can to help each other out. It doesn’t seem like this could work without both parties. Which is cool.
Also interesting to me - from a brand strategy point of view - is that this idea really asks Starbucks to sort of...
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Just Kids →
Ostensibly about Jeffrey Eugenides new book, the article ends up tracking the circle young writers through their intersections with David Foster Wallace.
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Special Relativity Bloopers
Me: the book I’m reading is talking about this thing called time dilation. I don’t really understand it, but it has something to do with time speeding up for someone moving, and staying the same for someone not moving. Something like that.
Meg: That doesn’t sound real.
Me: Right? I guess as you get closer to the speed of light your perception of time, or actual time, I don’t remember which,...
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“I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our...”
– Bill Gates Remembers Steve Jobs - Ina Fried - News - AllThingsD (via henrycooke)
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Well, shit.
I’m not going to even try to come up with anything important or poignant to say…
- It probably goes without saying, but I think we lost more than the head of a corporation today. I’m not sure who takes his place. Not at Apple, but in the world. I’m not aware of another person who thinks about technology and humanity the way he could. We’re all a little worse off...
“I’m sorry, but a 50-year-old Asian man wearing a Paul Smith suit, a denim...”
– - Chelsea Fagan in “Street Fashion Photography Is Messing With Me”. A hilarious read that you should check out.
(via The Silentist)
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September 2011
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Imaginary Image Blog →
A photo of a blog about photos that dont exist
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Volkswagen Beetle →
I’m not sure whether I like this site or whether it’s gimmicky. But I would put money on this getting linked to nearly infinity by agency folks. I would put further money on there being about 1 million creative brainstorming meetings over the next 6 months where “let’s do a scrolling site, like that Beetle site.”
Daring Fireball Linked List: It's the Content... →
Yes.
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The Shortest Horror Story Ever
fionacinelli:
blackcarbs:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
-Frederic Brown
Oh hell, how am I supposed to sleep now.
The first time I read this I sort of chuckled a little. Then I stopped for a second and thought: that’s actually pretty terrifying.
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Advertisers Create Content to Lure Elusive... →
For Kmart, a unit of Sears Holdings Corp., “First Day,” began as a four-page pitch in 2009 from “Gossip Girl” executive producer Alloy Entertainment. For the current season, the show’s second, Alloy pitched a story about a girl who wants to go to the prom with her crush.
The retailer liked the idea, but wanted to use it to hawk its line of back-to-school clothes. So it suggested changing the...
Give Peace A Chance.: Censored Art by Children of... →
promotingpeace:
Giving in to enormous pressure from the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Relations Council of the East bay, the Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA) in Oakland cancelled an exhibit of Palestinian children’s art called “A Child’s View From Gaza.” The art exhibit including nearly 50 pieces…
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Woman 'punked' by stupid Toyota viral campaign... →
I can’t believe it took this long.
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“An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles...”
– David Foster Wallace (via graceyu)
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One Thing Among Many I Remember
Among obviously a lot, here is something I remember from 2001:
I was working at a tiny design firm called Hega Bojo and our office was just a largish, first floor room in what was otherwise a building of fine artist studios. There were only two offices on the first floor, and the upstairs - where all the artists studios were - was a roughly put together maze of sheetrock walls and salvaged...
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Just Asking →
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Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth - Adrian Slywotzky... →
But the idea, so common in this week’s media coverage, that Jobs was an inspired savant who succeeded by taking big risks on personal hunches, is way off the mark. Rather than worship at the altar of inspiration and “going with your gut,” the rest of us should use this moment to consider the fundamental strategies that drove Apple’s success.
Good article on how great...
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Sartre publishes “The Wall” on his facebook wall |... →
Yes to this.
August 2011
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“Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking...”
– Chortle.
Long Beach Post: Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers Within Departmental Policy
Via C-Monster. (via murketing)
Reality on hold for a bit.
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“To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if...”
– Steve Jobs announced his third medical leave in the past decade in January. Our story from January here.
Reblog:
Text of resignation letter by former Apple CEO STEVE JOBS.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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Not to be hipster or anything....
zeenie:
But I read Infinite Jest before the Decemberists made a music video out of it.
WHAT
Word. This is the new standard.
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Pitch/Reality Fail
Out for drinks with friends last week, the topic of conversation turned to recalling/comparing either the dumbest things we’ve heard of getting pitched to clients, or worse, the dumbest things we’ve had to pitch to clients ourselves.
If you’ve worked in or around advertising for any length of time, you have almost certainly, at one point or another, been witness to an idea that...
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