Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Microtrends = history
by Josh “Mark Penn literally wrote the book on Microtrends, but this election is about a macrotrend.” So said Sir Martin Sorrell of the global media conglomerate the WPP Group to Arianna Huffington last month. Now Godzilla is gone, and it’s time for the pundits to size up his legacy, and the legacy of the [...]
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Tags: hope, Mark Penn, meaningless pablum, Obama, the future
by Jesse Senator Clinton claims that on a trip to Bosnia she was attacked by sniper-fire when getting off the plane and that she had to run with her head down straight to her car. Um, that’s a complete lie. Why does she keep trying to make herself seem like an exciting adventurer? Maybe the [...]
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Insidious ads, Vol. 1
by Josh Talking stains, talking babies, talking turtles, talking lions. All contagious commercials that entertained us during Super Bowl timeouts and inspired healthy twaddle around the water cooler. But other ads go one better; they generate a bona fide cultural phenomenon. These ur-ads reinforce the ties that bind a shared consumer culture. They let us [...]
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by elmickerino (noun) Definition: 1) A five syllable synonym for a pompous, puritanical, pedantic patrician, whose preposterous pandering – profligated in his pusillanimous publication The National Review – provoked political permutations, and whose passing was promptly parsed by the milieu of modern media. 2) This asshole: note the remarkable similarity to another world-renowned asshole, and [...]
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by achitophel I [YOUR NAME] firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of Islam, especially those principal truths which are directly opposed to the errors of this day … Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical misrepresentation that teachings evolve and change from [...]
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Save Friday Night Lights
by Lindsay It seems NBC is considering cancelling beloved “Friday Night Lights” and fans are attempting to pull the same hat trick as “Jericho” to save the show. In an impressive grass roots Internet movement, “Jericho” was saved from cancellation by fans sending thousands of pounds of peanuts to CBS. (Why nuts? In the [...]
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by Lindsay In November, 2006 the UN reported that the cattle industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions that the transportation industry. This means giving up meat for a day does more for the environment than giving up your car – and it’s probably a lot easier on your lifestyle. Moreover, cattle-rearing is a major source [...]
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Aphorism of the day
by Josh From Adobe‘s original corporate mission statement: “Everything that can be digital will be.” Think about that and all of its implications. Here’s one–sufficiently enigmatic, I hope–of my own: “A paradise would feel pretty empty if it wasn’t engineered.” Who disagrees with me?
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My dream woman – sorry Lindsay
by Josh At last, Erin Esurance poses full Monty. You’ll be glad to know that she’s a natural pink.
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Nostalgia by Josh “Things just ain’t what they used to be” is a cliché with near universal appeal. Every generation in history has looked at the next with the despair that, in its hands, the world would melt into anarchy and ruin. Our parents think that the internets and cell phones have made us [...]
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by Jesse After a period of marcescence, sex has returned with a cha-cha. New York City has unveiled a new innovation in condom technology: kick-ass branding. Last year’s subway condoms were designed well (even though a few didn’t work), but the tv-ads for these sexy, new rubbers are slamming.
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Tags: Art, Sex, Sex as Art
