chess and football
As a child, I would set up the chessboard and pretend it was a football field and the pieces football players.
will it sell a single phone?
T-Mobile has a new ad and it’s pretty damn cool.
Will it sell a single phone? I doubt it. But that doesn’t mean their message is a bad one. Life is for sharing. And there’s some interesting stuff in there about joy and contagiousness and how great it is to be alive.
Via: adliterate
oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood
One man’s pirate, it would seem, is another man’s freedom fighter. Misunderstood victims of nasty propaganda campaigns.
Thank god for Johann Hari who sets us straight. Of pirates, he writes
They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century.”
They say this kind of thing about Hamas and others, don’t they?
what’s the carbon footprint of burning money, anyway?
The Printed Blog is an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed - yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile experience.
The selection of content in The Printed Blog is based solely on the votes of readers and their geographic location. In such a way, The Printed Blog revolts against the top-down, ‘one size fits all’ model of newsprint, as we know it. Instead of one paper serving hundreds of thousands of people, as is often the case, The Printed Blog publishes hundreds or even thousands of highly-localized editions based on what a community declares is important to them. The papers are distributed to neighborhood pickup points in A.M. and P.M. editions, and will incorporate rapid turnaround reader comments.
If I understand correctly, I have to go online, choose what I like, wait for somebody to decide whether or not to print it, then go out somewhere to pick it up and hope I get to read what I wanted to (and could have) read hours ago.
Doesn’t Google Reader already aggregate this stuff for me? Can’t I read it on the train on my iPhone? Aren’t I already killing the earth enough using these devices?
This sounds like a reverse-engineered meatball sundae.
and on a sunday, no less
I have been the lucky recipient of some pretty insistent e-mails from a PR/GR firm trying to get me to attend an event this week in Toronto.
The e-mails have been arriving over the last few weeks. Today, I’ve received the e-mail twice. I guess they’re getting desperate as the event is on Tuesday, I think.
After getting the second one I decided to write back. Here’s what I sent them:
The subject header on this reply should probably read, “Your last chance to keep from having e-mails from your organization automatically deleted without being read.”
I’m not sure how you got this e-mail address but ok, you did.
I have no idea who you are. Also fine.
Please rest assured that I have read it. I have not yet decided to attend the event.
Sending me the exact same e-mail over and over again is not going to make me any likelier to attend the event. In fact, it is possible it might have the exact opposite effect. Because that’s what spam does. It makes me want to do the opposite. This isn’t “Simon Says.”
Spam says come. I stay home.
Spam says read. I delete.
Should I decide to attend, you will hear from me.
Now please take the time that you’ve spent spamming me and use it to click on the following links and learn little bit about more appropriate ways to start a conversation with someone and creating some real value for your clients. Assuming that’s what you’re interested in doing.
If your actual business is annoying people then keep on keeping on. You’re doing a great job.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/how-to-send-a-p.html
http://davefleet.com/pitching-tips/
http://davefleet.com/2008/09/anatomy-of-a-bad-pitch/
Any bets on whether they offer me the same consideration I gave them?
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sex pistols + cece peniston = ?
Mark Vidler (aka Go Home Productions) makes the best mash-ups you’ll find anywhere.
On his latest album, Spliced Krispies, Vidler introduces Luther Vandross to REM. He gets the Stone Roses, Billy Joel, and the Byrds together for a beer, plays spin the bottle and and CeCe Peniston (remember her? I know, right?) has to kiss the Sex Pistols.
show me all the rules, girl. i just want to get ‘em wrong.
Choke is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk. It has also been made into a movie (winner of the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for work by an ensemble cast).
I haven’t read the book. Nor have I seen the movie. But I bought the soundtrack back in October and it’s excellent.
The playlist:
1. The Rules - Ben Kweller
2. Don’t You Ever - Natural History
3. Navy Nurse - The Fiery Furnaces
4. Reckoner - Radiohead
5. Sin Terror - Alap Mornin
6. Satan Said Dance - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
7. Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
8. No Sunlight - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Wicked - Blitzen Trapper
10. If You Feel It - Ms. Tyree “Sugar” Jones
11. Touch Me I’m Going to Scream, Pt. 1 - My Morning Jacket
12. Bicycle - Shout Out Louds
13. There’s Been an Accident - Twilight Singers
14. Crystal Ship - Nicole Atkins
cheers to you
From the Ridiculous Informercial Review blog. Via Merlin Mann.
(This ain’t productive at all.)