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Ideas man.

The @GingrichIdeas twitter account is just killing it. Helps to have good materials to work with.

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Sexy sax man.

Hola Amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I figured this was worth it. Here’s to teh funnay Youtoobz.

A dramatic reading of Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook.

What could possibly be monumentous* enough for me to dust off the ol’ Quality Snark?

This is pretty alright.

*not a word.

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When does Skynet go live, again?

Man, Watson was killing it last night on Jeopardy. I found it fascinating, a little boring, and vaguely frightening, all at once.

“Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it?”

From the excellent If We Don’t, Remember Me.

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Things real people don’t say about advertising.

Good stuff. I tell myself that the work that I do is different from traditional marketing and advertising because its for good causes, not products.

And it is different. But this still rings pretty true. See also.

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Annals of passive-agressive product marketing.

What can I say? They were out of my usual brand, “If You Can’t Be Arsed.”

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Literal captions on New Yorker cartoons.

From a new site called The Monkeys You Ordered. Good stuff.

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Basic Maths.

If you haven’t yet, you should check out my post about my first year as an independent consultant over at hwickline.com.

Just sayin’.

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‘They were there.’

Very cool bit of corporate propaganda from IBM in honor of their centennial. Of course, it helps when you’ve got Errol Morris as the director and Philip Glass doing the score. Seriously, I watched the whole thing last night, rapt.

There’s a guy that worked on the UPC team (they’re the people that invented the bar code. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.), the woman who designed the motherboard for the PC (like, the first one) and the guy who wrote the program that got the Apollo 13 astronauts home safely, among others. Check it out.

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