Another in the long list of “Things I Should Post About” is a in-depth exploration of my own views on copyright, piracy and the impact & actions of the various related industries. But for now, I’ll say that sometimes it’s the exact opposite of what the RIAA would have you believe. For example, I watched […]
Recently finished Seth Godin”s book “The Purple Cow” which has a main premise that businesses should no longer do mass marketing to the big bulge that is the early and late majority but instead, focus on niche marketing to the much smaller but much more rabid early adopters group who are much more likely to […]
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Posted 19 September 2010
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“A woman with AIDS is filmed briefly, every day, for 90 days, and the changes she undergoes are dramatic. The very end may make you weep, but perhaps not for the reasons you expect.” Aids PSA Topsy from Human Music & Sound Design on Vimeo. (via MetaFilter)
Sure, they're counting on some store specials in this list but the point they make about the healthiest foods that you can eat often being the cheapest is a very valid one.
Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat Microsoft (and Google) View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon.
Would you believe four turns? (And if you don't, make sure you read the comments for even more inspired ideas!)We started to wonder about what the shortest THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE game of Monopoly would be. That is, if everything went just the right way, with just the right sequence of rolls, Chance and Community Chest cards, […]
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Posted 08 June 2010
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I wrote about this meme before. Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made the movie have decided that the single scene used for all these parodies is an “infringement” of their work. Well, they say that dinosaurs had small brains […]
Our friends in the US are celebrating National Library Week which leads to awesome posts like this one from HuffPo on that country's most amazing libraries.Of course the news isn't all good south of the border (check out the fourth or fifth comment down from MJinCanada!), especially right now. The troubles for US libraries really […]
Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
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