July 2008
The 100 Most Influential Taglines Since 1948 →
(via luro)
Top 10:
1. Got milk? (1993) California Milk Processor Board 2. Don’t leave home without it. (1975) American Express 3. Just do it. (1988) Nike 4. Where’s the beef? (1984) Wendy’s 5. You’re in good hands with Allstate. (1956) Allstate Insurance 6. Think different. (1998) Apple Computer 7. We try harder. (1962) Avis 8. Tastes great, less filling. (1974) Miller Lite 9. Melts in your...
Intel’s PopURLs Blue Edition Drives 100%... →
Via Steve Rubel: Phenomenal stats speak to the awesome engagement power of PopURLs and the stroke of genius for Thomas Marban and Intel to create Intel’s PopURLs Blue Edition.
June 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Death Cab for Cutie
The Futureheads
Aimee Mann
The Raconteurs
The Ting Tings
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
TypeRacer →
testing 1, 2, 3, testing
Star Wars Crawl - Make a custom Star Wars Intro →
Easily create your very own Star Wars-esque prelude text crawl!
Torontodogs.com →
dogs stuff … new puppy coming soon….
CNET editors' digital SLR camera buying guide -... →
John is making noises about a bought me a camera upgrade to coincide with for my 33rd birthday. My last SLR (Canon EOS Elan II) was purchased between first and second year of j-school. It turns out the thing is only worth 30 bucks on trade in.
Classic Carlin
pica:
Always do whatever’s next.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.
Dusting is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Iron & Wine
Coldplay
My Morning Jacket
Fleet Foxes
Stereophonics
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our...”
– George Eastman (via affremblequotes)
How to Truly Bring Online Video to the Mainstream →
Shared by Leona
Until the hardware catches up with the software and solves the veg-factor problem, YouTube, Hulu or podcasting will still be relegated to the minority in the typical media…
mixwit: Time to Pretend We're Over the Ice →
For your listening pleasure, here are a bunch of songs I’ve been loving lately:
Click here to listen if you don’t see the mixwit player.
Top 10 Portable Games for Long Trips - Switched →
Good ideas for new PSP games here… in case anyone is in search of a b-day gift for a certain 30-something gamer…-ahem-
Why women quit technology careers →
Researchers found four important factors about the culture and the nature of the career path. They call them “antigens,” because they repel women.
1. The machismo that continues to permeate these work environments. 2. The sheer isolation many women cope with daily. 3. The career path is all very mysterious because they don’t have mentors or sponsors or folks looking out for them. 4. Risky...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
Aimee Mann
The Futureheads
Barenaked Ladies
Bob Dylan
Kanye West
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
The best mass-culture takedown since Anthony Lane
hellofriend:
I give you Andy Gill’s “Why I Hate Coldplay”. “Because they suck” has never been so eloquent or well-reasoned.
Their music sounds like Radiohead with all the spiky, difficult, interesting bits boiled out of it, resulting in something with the sonic consistency of wilted spinach; it retains the crowd-pleasing hooks and singalong choruses while dispensing with the more challenging,...
“Google: $65.55
Yahoo!: $31.25
Microsoft (MSN): $17.74
MySpace: $12.85...”
– Estimates for US average online advertising revenues per unique visitor in 2008 by eMarketer (via gtmcknight)
“The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the...”
Inspiration is magical - (37signals) →
“Inspiration is like picking up one of those blinky things in a video game that makes you invincible for awhile. You can do anything, go anywhere, and you don’t have to worry about it.”