The Manilow Punishment
Brilliant crime-fitting-punishment story in the LA Times… So when teenagers land in front of him for blasting their car stereos or otherwise disturbing the peace in this small northern Colorado city, Sacco informs them that they will spend…
Brilliant Dopplr Annual Report (Another PDF)
This is pure gold. I’m sure every blogger on Dopplr has considered posting something about their personal annual report. How could you not. It shows all the traveling you did last year and wraps it up in a nice, funny, quirky, and sort of…
Adobe – Nooooooooooooooo!
Just got this in my email from Adobe… Dear Adobe, you are a company that is supposed to understand design. You make wonderful software that lots of designers use. And then you go and do this. A plain text email would have been fine. A…
A New Muslim Ad Network – Outside of My Regular Purview
The other day Michael sent me a link to this story. Desedo are setting up an agency specifically to engage with the American-Muslim demographic. This is an ignored demo with $170 Billion of spending power. And in this recession, brands are…
Cut and Paste – Calling All Rockstar Designers
Cut and Paste is back in London. On Saturday 4th April there’s going to be live, competitive designing going on. Designers get given a brief and a time limit and they have to ‘do’ design in front of a live audience. Watching the video it…
Life in Another Language
Just caught this on the TV. I had no idea what it was for, but it had an intriguing coolness about it. As I had my laptop on my knee I tried out the URL just to see… Turns out it’s a pretty smart thing that C4 are doing to get youngsters…
Be Like Lil’ Wayne iPhone App
I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or download the thing and have a go. Wanna know what it does. Well it gives you… Here’s what they say: That’s the problem. It sorta sounds fun. If you can’t resist, get it here.…
What We Own And Where It’s Made
I loved this series of posts from Very Small Array. They’re basically a bunch of photos called ‘What We Own And Where It’s Made’. I just thought they were really nice, simple and thoughtful. There’s loads more countries too. Go and have a…
January 2009 – Apricity Mix
I’ve never been one for giving pretentious names to mixes. Until now. Apricity is such a great word, it means: the warmth of the sun in winter. And that’s the sound I was trying to create in this mix. Something that’ll make a chilly walk…
January Sale on Creatives
Seriously! I got spammed with this last week: Interesting that the 10% rate only applies to ‘non-digital’ creatives. I wonder what the T&Cs are? Does using ‘the email’ make you a digital creative? It should do.…
Email is like Tetris: you lose eventually
I stole this title from a thread over at IBM Developer Works. Unfortunately after such a great setup the thread itself is pretty unthrilling. Email is a lot like Tetris. The thrill of inbox zero. The joy of knocking out 4 lines with a…
Mashup Proves That Bestselling Music of 2008 Was Shit
DJ Earworm has put together this mashup of the top 25 Billboard Chart tracks of 2008. It’s technically very accomplished. But it left me feeling full of regret and despair. It shows how mainstream bestselling music is a pile of generic…