Congratulations, you have successfully produced the worlds most annoying ads. These offend me not only as a person in the field of advertising, but as a human being with moderate intelligence. I am talking about the new ads for Quizno’s. If you haven’t seen them, turn down your volume, cover your eyes, and press play [...]
I am a skeptic of pennies to begin with (I’ve been know to throw them away when they get too jangly in my pocket), but yesterday I was surprised to notice the sudden appearance of an entirely new penny design. Naturally, I consulted the internet. Turns out that starting in February 2010, the Department of [...]
The appearance of miraculous images is no longer just for the Catholics. For all you Rastafarians out there, it appears Jah works in mysterious ways, too. Check out this picture my sister took of my brother down the beach. Look at the wood by his feet. Can you see the image of the Non-Virgin Bob [...]
The Web’s all abuzz over this new iPhone spot, how it’s a real tearjerker and all. It leaves me a little cold, however. And the video resolution of FaceTime is not what Jobs promised. Fail.
As a Clevelander living away from home, news like that of LeBron leaving town may hurt, but not as deep as the news that Cleveland’s own Harvey Pekar passed away yesterday. I was prepared to write some heartfelt account of what Harvey meant to me and to my city, until I found this post from [...]
For the visually and verbally inclined, the word “data” is a foreign if not daunting one. But a visit to the blog FlowingData, in which UCLA graduate student Nathan Yau culls displays of data from all over the internet, may leave you much more at peace with number crunching. Topics covered in Yau’s nearly daily [...]
