Talent Borrows, Genius Steals. I just coined that phrase. OK, that’s not true, it’s actually from Pablo Picasso, who stole it from Oscar Wilde. Or Stephen Morrissey. Well anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s from one of those guys with fairly low Klout scores. But I digress. It’s a great quote. Yet it does not quite [...]
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Here’s the story. This is image is from the Oatmeal, part of a series about the state of the Internet today (hilarious stuff, check it out). Amongst others, it includes a fake screen for when Tumblr is down, along the lines of the notorious Twitter Fail Whale. Here’s the caption that went with it. If [...]
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“This, is an awareness test. How many passes does the team in white make?” A very simple brief… I’ll let you watch the video, do the test for yourself, without spoilers. Trust me it’s worth it. How did you do? If you’re like me, you proudly made it to 13 passes, and of course, totally [...]
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2011 Reading List #002 Re Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of 37signals For my full 2011 reading list, click here. 4.5/5 Outstanding book, ReWork achieved a rare combination: so thoroughly enjoyable I couldn’t put it down; yet making me completely unconfortable about how its content relates to my life, my job and [...]
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Tonight I’m staying in the Gansevoort Hotel in New York for a business meeting. My room is very nice. On the walls hang a series of photographs by Deborah Anderson; also, there is a beautiful coffee table book from the same photographer, Room 23. Mostly very suggestive semi-nude female portraits. Great work, but a far [...]
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I started this blog in November ‘10 with the misguided idea that self-hosted WordPress.org was not for me, too complicated for beginners. So I opened shop at a WordPress.com hosted account. But being the tinkerer that I am, a few months and 6,000 hits later, I started feeling itchy for a bit more customization. So [...]
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Is it OK for one in every twenty posts to be a shameless promotion? Anyway, that’s the one, so I hope it’s OK… Here’s a sneak peak for my mates in #usguys and broader twitterville of the new 2011 Pepsi Max International campaign, which is about to hit the screens this week-end in Europe, starting [...]
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This past week, the #usguys part of Twitterville has been abuzz with a new logogate from one of my favorite brands – Starbucks. I WON’T DWELL ON WHAT’S ALREADY BEEN SAID. YES, I think it’s a great idea to remove COFFEE, as Starbucks plans to expand beyond the category. But NO, I wouldn’t extend that comment [...]
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