Archive for the 'Miscellany' Category

Pirating adspace…

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I suppose this concept isn’t too dissimilar from your run-of-the-mill graffiti, but there’s something about its messaging that’s a whole lot more appealing to me. Hijacking traditional, necessarily negative messages, if for only a short while, to deliver something more positive strikes me as one of the highest forms of piracy (somewhere below this).
[via The […]

About 50% of the human race is middle men…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

…and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated.
[via /.]
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The economics of free in practice…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

If three graphic designers can recreate d-day for practically free…

Hollywood, you’re proper fucked!
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The Machine is Us/ing Us…

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Somewhere in this video lies my key to that age-old childhood riddle: what do you want to be when you grow up?

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Creativity is the cheapest advertising…

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The annotated making of a thirty second ad spot for a sub shop — absolutely ingenious…

[via: Vitamin News]
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Next time I fly…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I’m going strait to the front of the screening line.
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Come on, February…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Goddammit, I can’t wait for the Month of ridiculous “Year of…” statements to be over!
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Irony in advertising, continued…

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Following up from a few days ago, vote for the most foreboding pre-9/11 ads.
My vote’s for Cookie Monster…
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Does Madison Avenue appreciate the irony?

Friday, January 11th, 2008

From copyranter’s brilliant collection of 9/11 advertorial premortums…

Hey, isn’t that plane flying a little low?

ASBESTOS: What Can’t It Not Do?

Some closer than others.
As an aside: from copyranter’s about me section — some sentiments I can get behind…
I hate capri pants. Also: advertising, advertising people, PR people, marketing people, salespeople, real estate people, journalists, lawyers, doctors, […]

There are two kinds of people in the world…

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Those who finish what they started…
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I ♥ NY…

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

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Fine China…

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Via Boing Boing.
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Braces…

Friday, December 28th, 2007

>>> from __future__ import braces
SyntaxError: not a chance (<console>, line 1)
I love you, Python!
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30 Minutes with CNN Headline News…

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

No shit.
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Linux is not communism…

Friday, December 7th, 2007

“Linux is not communism, Vendor lock-in is.”
Via /.
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$2 multitouch display…

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Unmotherfuckinbelievable…
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Moral relativity and Michael Vick…

Friday, August 24th, 2007

In this SI article, John Rolfe makes a seemingly compelling argument that those ne’er-do-wells at PETA have a point about this Michael Vick thing…
PETA is calling for the public’s assistance in demanding that the NFL add cruelty to animals “in all its forms” to the list of offenses in the league’s code of personal conduct.
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Meetings as placebo…

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I’m terrible at running a meeting.
I’m too ADD to keep myself on-topic, let alone a handful of adult children, each with their own agenda. Of course, I also hate agendas — a list of bullet-points religiously followed does dickall to bring legitimate issues or ideas to the forefront.
There has to be a balance — a […]

Chipotle, my Subway diet…

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Chicken burrito — blackbeans, rice, tomatoes and corn, cheese and lettuce. I pound one of these almost every day for lunch. Foolishly, I poked around for the nutrition facts today…

Ouch.
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Every privacy nut’s wetdream…

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Web Worker Daily asks about good ways to use your laptop in the summer sun…
The answer, apparently — the Techno Privacy Scarf. But it’s not just for outdoor use, folks — if there’s a better way to surf porn in your cube, I’d love to hear it!
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Tax dollars: an Eternal Golden Braid…

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

There’s an interesting tangled “incestuous” loop playing out in Ohio: apparently local municipalities are shelling out big bucks to state lobbyists for local kickbacks…
These lobbyists should be walking around with a sign around their necks that says: “Your tax dollars at work trying to raise your taxes.”
[via: H&R]
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And booze should be a writeoff…

Monday, July 16th, 2007

“I feel like we are in an age group where the obligation to purchase wedding presents should place us in a lower tax bracket.” — Angie
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The living web’s dead weight…

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Wired’s Bruce Sterling seems to agree with me (though he said it before me, so I guess it’s the other way around)…
In response to Doc’s Live Web vs. Static Web:
It’s a new conceptual world where all media is dead. Get your head around that one, folks!
Damn strait!
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If only…

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

My girlfriend just sent this along…

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Amazed?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Agreed.
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Rambling semi-coherently since 2006…

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