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Moo cubed

30. June 2008

Feast your eyes on the new gallon milk jugs, which are being adopted by Costco and Sam’s Club and will soon be everywhere. It’s inevitable, given the promised savings, which come from more efficient storage and shipping and the elimination of cartons, which require costly washing and handling. What will college graduates use for bookshelves? Read Solution [...]

Meet the new boss

30. June 2008

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The boss you love to hate. See all the Dilbert comics at Dilbert.com. When you go into business for yourself, even though it sure looks and feels like you’ve become free and unfettered, the fact is, you still have a boss. I don’t mean your clients, because in fact, your clients are not your bosses. I mean [...]

Infographicmercial

24. June 2008

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Anyone seen the Areva commercial? Just saw it on Olbermann and it reminded me, appropriately enough, of the video for “Remind Me” by Royksopp. Is it the same creative shop reprising an old fave or outright copycatism? I sure like the genre of animated infographics, but it seems a little close for comfort. Check for [...]

Frolicking in the Silicon Forest

17. June 2008

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Imbibe, originally uploaded by saramarie. Polymer Studios is a sponsor of this Wednesday’s Ignite Portland and also co-hosting an after party at Imbibe. Free pitchers for all! Our co-hosts are the social recommendation engineers Strands. We’re guessing that things will get hopping around 9:30. Oh, did I mention the free pitchers? If you’re in the area, please [...]

Neo-neo classical

17. June 2008

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Photo from Stiftung Archaeologie Stark white marble temples and statues. That’s what the scupltors of the Renaissance saw, and copied. And that’s the visual language that informed the architects of our nation’s capitol. But what if the original sources were not at all like everyone imagined? What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually painted their [...]

In praise of whimsy

12. June 2008

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How serendipitous. A friend of mine sent an article that contained a link to the very story I had been wracking my brain to recall for some time. It’s about a college student who drops out, but chooses to follow his whimsy and takes the odd class in calligraphy. He never finishes college. Years later, however, [...]

Making change happen

11. June 2008

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The first picture that turned up in a Google images search of “meatloaf.” Turns out it’s a vegan meatloaf by Field Roast Grain Meat Co. Go figure. Mark Bittman, food writer at the NYT, just wrote a column about how to reduce your meat intake. With the rising price of oil directly and indirectly pushing up [...]

The Tao of Eastwood

10. June 2008

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No idea where I found this, but it amused me greatly: “Sergio Leone, who directed Eastwood in his breakthrough role in the Man With No Name trilogy of spaghetti westerns, said he liked the actor because he had only two expressions: ‘one with the hat, one without it.’ “ Bonus: “Clint Eastwood,” by Gorillaz

Fail is a four letter word

10. June 2008

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I understand that J.K. Rowling’s commencement speech at Harvard caused a stir. While some students grew up reading Harry Potter and were delighted to hear her, others felt it was beneath the dignity of the school to have an author of (gasp!) children’s books speak to the future rulers of the free world. I don’t think [...]

Hitting the reset button

7. June 2008

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We recently decided to give our business a reboot. As any Windows user knows, a reboot is sometimes necessary to clean out the memory and bring the system running back to peak performance. Not that our business hasn’t been successful and all that. It has. But perhaps symptomatic of a deeper funk, we’ve been struggling for three [...]