Powerpoint Nirvana
Spiegel has a nice article about what happens to us as soon as we enter the powerpoint universum: we go into near coma. Please make sure you also check out the videos that are attached to it. The article is in German. Link.
Spiegel has a nice article about what happens to us as soon as we enter the powerpoint universum: we go into near coma. Please make sure you also check out the videos that are attached to it. The article is in German. Link.
Here are some cruel advertisements made by Jim Henson: Hard to believe, but it apparently was a genuine ad campaign: In 1957, Jim Henson was approached by a Washington, D.C. coffee company to produce ads for Wilkins Coffee. The local stations only had ten seconds for station identification, so the commercials had to be lightning-fast…
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What can I say… Link.
Oh how we miss the man… Slate is one of the many websites featuring a list of bushisms. Todays quote is: “I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.” On what he hopes to accomplish with…
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Boingboing has a nice post on how the whole economic crisis started: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMu1mFao3w] The Capital Markets Subcommittee Chair, Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, tells C-Span how the world economy almost collapsed in a matter of hours. At 2 minutes, 20 seconds into this C-Span video clip, Kanjorski reports on a “tremendous draw-down of money market…
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