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Some things you don’t see every day

31. July 2008

Ad campaigns starring strange men in shimmering tarpaulin suits. Manhole cover advertising. Grass advertising. Scholarly books at Starbucks. Urgent appeals against public urination. (The sign reads: “PLEASE Respect the house of God! Don’t paint this wall. Don’t post bills. Don’t urinate on this street. Thank you.”)

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

You can have this Pulitzer when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

25. February 2008

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And, indeed that day is coming. Meanwhile, it’s interesting to see where the old bastions of power are still hanging on. By a thread. To wit, this quote from a NYT article on the Polk-award-winning political blog Talking Points Memo: Sig Gissler, the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, said in an e-mail message that online articles [...]

Pet Peeve #124: Cryptic Filenames

4. November 2007

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Nine times out of 10, when I download a PDF, Word doc, etc. from a site, the filename is some cryptic string of letters and numbers. I’m sure it makes sense to the code crackers at NASA, but when I try to download a printer template, how the heck am I supposed to find it [...]

Flying the horse in the direction it’s going

25. October 2007

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Burdened with an unfortunate airport code, SUX, the leaders of Sioux City, Iowa, recently decided to embrace it rather than fight it. A marketing campaign ensued. Of course, this inspiring lesson comes a little late for those of us who attended middle school with an unfortunate surname in tow. Via BoingBoing.