January 2012
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November 2010
4 posts
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Internet Battles: Awesome
The Business Insider is starting a “Battle of the Startups” feature, matching similar start-ups against each other. In this episode: Fashism.com vs. GoTryItOn.com.
I love internet battles (see 4chan vs. anything)!
Conan goes to India
Traditional ads that work. Good content = spreadable ideas. Good job Ogilvy.
Props!
October 2010
11 posts
word fun.
Was it a Car or a Cat I Saw.
(read it backwards) : )
via @young
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Lupe Fiasco at World Up's Living Remix Workshop.
World Up Lupe Fiasco Preview from ari joseph on Vimeo.
So cute.
On tap for Starbucks: beer, wine, cheese | Puget... →
Starbucks, steps for brand redesign.
RE:FORM SCHOOL NYC
Today is the last day to experience RE:FORMSCHOOL NYC, one of NY’s most talked about art events this year, go check it out!
REDU’s Re:Form School is an interactive exhibit, event series and public awareness campaign in New York City uniting legions of artists to send a loud message that the time has come to fix our ailing public school system. Participants include Lupe Fiasco,...
Motorola Files Suit Against Apple for Patent... →
Mind - Why All Indiscretions Appear Youthful -... →
“Scientists are beginning to learn how memory assists and even amplifies this righteous self-messaging. In piecing together a life story, the mind nudges moral lapses back in time and shunts good…
Goodbye Ridiculously Loud Potato Chip Technology !
On my way to a picnic a few weeks ago, I stopped by the store to buy a bag of the very delicious SunChips. Little did I expect to be suddenly terrified by their ridiculously loud, environmentally friendly packaging. It was horrible and traumatizing.
According to USA Today, these bags will be no more.
“The noise of the bag — due to an unusual molecular structure that makes the bag...
Doctored Autobiographies - Why Indescretions... →
“In recent years psychologists have exposed the many ways that people subconsciously maintain and massage their moral self-image. They rate themselves as morally superior to the next person; overestimate the likelihood that they will act virtuously in the future; see their own good intentions as praiseworthy while dismissing others’ as inconsequential. And they soften their moral principles...
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Carl Sagan: 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking
Technology + Education = Awesome. The Symphony of Science is a musical project “designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.” I absolutely love it. (h/t @oweniverson)
One of my favorites:
“But the brain does much more than just recollect It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions The simplest thought like the...
September 2010
4 posts
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How Google Instant's New Rules Turn a Sneeze Into... →
Impressions are no longer measured only by searches and clicks, according to Google. In the Instant era, it also counts if a user stops typing, and results are displayed for three seconds or…
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urine whiskey, anyone?
London designer James Gilpin may have raised the eyebrows of many medical experts and whiskey lovers with his new project, “Gilpin Family Whisky.” The concept of the project is to utilize sugar-heavy urine excreted by diabetic patients for fermenting into high-end single malt whiskey. Gilpin, who is himself a type 1 diabetic, says that his project’s objective is to start a dialogue with health...
August 2010
2 posts
Doctor Love | Fast Company →
In a series of studies spanning nine years, Zak has changed our understanding of human beings as economic animals. Oxytocin is the key (and please, do not confuse the cuddle drug with the painkiller…
July 2010
10 posts
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com →
Excellent and thorough piece on modern identity and the web. “Without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.”
Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of - NYTimes.com →
On internet culture…
The Advantages of Being Helpless (Scientific... →
psychotherapy:
At every stage of early development, human babies lag behind infants from other species. A kitten can amble across a room within moments of birth and catch its first mouse within weeks, while its wide-eyed human counterpart takes months to make her first step, and years to learn even simple tasks, such as how to tie a shoelace or skip a rope, let alone prepare a three-course...
New App Reveals How Smart, Rich & Frugal Your... →
BAO has developed an App to provide localized demographic data. When the app opens, it pinpoints key demo data about the area such as the population, average age, average income, college education…
Wine Snobs Geek Out on “Systems Oenology” | Wired... →
On the origin of species – by means of pheromones... →
New York’s moths produce a pheromone that is chemically distinct from that of the Midwestern moths. Males are attracted to one or the other, but not both.
Top 1000 sites - DoubleClick Ad Planner →
Art Review - Otto Dix - At Neue Galerie, a... →
June 2010
18 posts
The market for fine wine in the United States -... →
U.S. Wine Consumer Research - The Wine Institute →
Chrome Surpasses Safari in U.S. →
Chrome has steadily gained ground over the past year, and recently has been stealing away the geeks and early adopters from open-source alternative Firefox. For many of these same users, it has been…
Who is the Average Wine Consumer? - Vinography: A... →
There are no red wines in the list of top 10 (Yellow Tail Shiraz happens to be #11 on the list) — we are clearly a white wine drinking country. We continue in our love affair with White Zinfandel…
Boxed Wines: Improved Packaging, Increased Sales -... →
Bam! How Culinary Culture Became a Pop Phenomenon... →
Expect these wine trends for the new decade -... →
1. Retailers resurgent
2. Sustainability grows teeth
3. Brands get serious
4. Peer reviews
5. Less (alcohol) is more