What I learned today: Geddy Lee of Rush guested on Bob and Doug McKenzie’s cult classic comedy routine, “Take Off, Eh,” because Lee and Rick Moranis went to elementary school together.
Me, I used to pick on Chelsea Handler on the walk home from school, but I don’t think I’m being asked on her show anytime soon.
Month: August 2010
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I'm okay with the new crest, but when the Gotham font appears in the logo for the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, of all institutions, have we not reached a point of saturation?
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The power of the Internet: using anonymous commenting as content, the Wall Street Journal actually ran a Facebook post that Sun Chips' new bags are "the worst when your stoned at 2am and trying to not wake up the house." Journalism!
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A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the “Ground Zero Mosque." I love this. Intolerance and jingoism is making America ugly. (via Derek Powazek)
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New branding and label design for Driscoll's fruit. Unfortunately it doesn't do anything about Driscoll's flavorless strawberries that spoil in four days
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I feel the same way, about Dickey and about knuckleballers. Wade Boggs, we hardly knew you
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This is the blog for the Wakemate, a new gadget for mobile phones that is supposed to track your rem sleep cycles and help you consistently rise in the morning on the proverbial right side of the bed. I know this applies to me, so I queued up for the product, many months ago. The blog is a fascinating study in what it takes to produce a physical product–it's very, very hard (and crucial to get the details right at launch, and production delays are inevitable. Check out the combination of optimism, crisis and grind in the Wakemate's blog. (Also, Wakemate, if you're reading this, I'm ready for my shipment.)
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The biggest problem with the ongoing liquidity crisis in America is that we can't spend government funds on too-cool-for-school infrastructure solutions like this. (Then again, America rarely has, anyway… we're too busy widening highways to innovate on rails.)
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Jason got a kick out of linking to this Valley Girl segment from "Real People" last week. What he forgot to mention is that the host was Fred Willard!
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Incredibly, the dack.com Bullshit Generator is just as accurate and clever, 10 years on
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Come for the branding news, stay for the awesome time-lapse video of the repainting of a 747. Amazed at how much is done by hand