May 2008
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Sales Of Spam Rises As Consumers Trim Food Costs →
Just like the resilient cockroach, and just like Joan Rivers’ face, your favorite processed food product will survive whatever apocalypse you throw at it… and then some. (via) Mmmm. Spam. ‘It’s almost meat!’™
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The Longevity Game →
Sure, you can shuffle the pieces around to improve your score. But, ultimately, you still lose.
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Dunkin' Donuts Ad Pulled Over 'Interpreted Terror... →
Score (another) one for the Right-wing, fear-based boycott threats. It goes to show ya how corporate backbone is inexorably fused to the bottom line. Now, how about some blowback from the other side of the aisle, just for caving. Pussies!
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“Head them off at the pass…? I hate that cliché.”
– Hedy Lamarr (That’s ‘Hedley’)
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Doug Collins Expected To Be Next Bulls Coach →
What’s old is… old again. Huh. I’m fence-sitting this one, for now. Collins as Bulls Head Coach, 1987 (Image: Chicago Tribune)
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“I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find. James Bond...”
– Ian Fleming, b. May 28, 1908 (via)
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'Green' Bombs? →
Protect the earth. Kill the evildoers. This is what the collective brain trust at the Pentagon has come up with. I guess it’s what we’ve come to expect from the same bars and stars who were once developing a “Gay Bomb”. And no, the ‘30 Rock’ reference was not a joke. For obvious reasons, ‘The Nude Bomb’ is a personal preference and should be part of...
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Slo-Mo Face Punches →
Always funnier when it’s not you. (via)
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Director Sydney Pollack Dies At 73 →
Commercial. Consistent. Consummate.
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Phoenix Finds Life On Mars...?
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission landing a success. Real images here. Another win for science. Have to wonder, though, what the project’s estimated $420M budget could’ve done to improve life on this planet.
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Remember
(Image via the White House Commission on Remembrance)
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Memorial Day Barbecash →
It’s painful enough, the price of the gas that gets you to the supermarket to shop for the weekend cookout, now the cookout itself can cause sticker shock. If I could at least drink the ethanol fueling this food inflation nightmare, it might numb the hunger pangs. Oh, and if you need them, smelling salts are on Aisle 12.
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USA National Gas Temperature Map →
Summer’s gonna be a scorcher. With the current climate, don’t expect much of a cooldown for Fall… or Winter.. or…
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Do You Know What 'Sustainability' Means? →
Good question. If advertisers are ramping up to extoll the Green virtues of their products, it might be a good idea to spot-check their customers’ vocabulary first. But if Procter & Gamble’s agency creatives thought themselves clever, they might consider slaying two marketing birds at once touting Tide’s “suSTAINability’.
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"Delivery For Senator Clinton... Can Somebody Sign...
‘Clinton Says She’s Willing To Take Fight To Convention’ C’mon, now. You ran a good campaign. You emboldened a generation of young female voters. You cracked the Beltway Boy’s Club glass ceiling and earned respect. But you’ve come up short. And now, your party needs you. Play by their (and your) rules, however bass-ackwards they may be, and move out of the way....
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Buffalo's Overlooked (And Only) Championship...
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2008 National Lacrosse League champs, the Buffalo Bandits. (That’s 4 titles, BTW) Big news, locally. But hardly a blip on the national sports media radar; had to drill down into ESPN.com just to find a recap. And I missed yesterday’s ESPN2 mid-day airing of the game. Blast! Maybe, with the NCAA Men’s lax tourney this weekend, the pros will get a shout...
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Chicago Bulls Get #1 Pick In NBA Draft →
“There’s nothing else I can do. Hold compressions. I’m calling it. Time of death for the ‘08-‘09 Season —” “Hold on, doctor! I’m getting a pulse!”
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Dem Sen. Edward Kennedy Diagnosed With Malignant... →
The Democrat’s Democrat. Wish him well. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP)
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Can’t sneeze at an 8-2 home stand, especially with a line-up hitting on/near .300 (Player of the Week to Soriano, too) and the rotation pitching lights-out (even the Bullpen!). Sure, the signing of Jim Edmonds raises the median team age a few ticks, but they can use the left-handed bat. The road trip started out on the good foot last night, with Soto’s inside-the-park HR and the...
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Greening The 2008 Democratic National Convention →
No, Ralph, not that Green. Move along…
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One Country's Table Scraps, Another Country's Meal →
Guilty as charged, and ashamed.
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Watch‘There Can Only Be One’ - Saturday Night Live
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What Your Branding Says About You (Or Shouldn't) →
Corporate logo first-impression tagging project. NSFMD (‘Not Safe For Marketing Departments’) (via)
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Presidential Campaign Logo Wayback Machine →
Further archeological proof the 70’s should remain buried. Robert Bryd must’ve been representing the Disco Party, with Sanford running for the Logans. Carter’s victory with a green, left-leaning (literally) design remains a mystery. These days. any choice other than the standard red, white and blue relegates a candidate to loser status. Senator McCain, are you listening…?...
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Artist Robert Rauschenberg Dies At 82 →
‘Untitled’ - Robert Rauschenberg, 1955. Oil, paint, crayon, pastel, paper, fabric, print reproductions, photographs and cardboard on wood. 15 1/2” x 20 3/4”. What materials didn’t he use on this piece? If anything, it’ll match your couch, your curtains, your carpet and your livestock.
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Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site... →
Seriously? Well, I suppose if you bury it, they will come. And so will the competition:
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Pass The Popcorn
Can’t remember the last summer where I actually looked forward to more than one or two studio releases. Granted, there’s always the opportunity for shrewd marketing deception and, ultimately, the delivery of celluloid shit, but this crop will keep my butt in the proverbial seat until August. Note: M. Night Shamalamadingdong gets one more shot (‘The Lady in the Water’ never...
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“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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Senate Defeats Bid To Open Arctic National... →
Encouraging news, though I’ve grown accustomed to flavoring my enthusiasm for these victories with a dash of cynicism, because, sadly, ‘No’ doesn’t mean no for very long in the slippery corridors of power.
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Superhero Old Age
Clever, ongoing series of illustrations by Italian artist Donald Soffritti, featuring way-past-their-prime comic superheroes and villains. (via) ‘Thor’ - © Donald Soffritti
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Watch‘Obama’s Logo Designer’ - Crain’s Chicago Business Brief video profile on Sender, the Chicago-area branding and design firm.
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New Yorker: 100 Essential Jazz Albums →
No Kenny G? No John Tesh? FTW?! A solid list. Subjective. But what isn’t? Ask 100 different jazz aficianados, you’ll get back 100 different lists and 10,000 picks. There are the genre touchstones, of course — the essential essentials — but these compilations are always good for the handful of new discoveries that help expand the personal jukebox.
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“Hi. Hello? This is crazy. This person hung up. Maybe they think it’s a...”
– Unnamed Hillary Clinton Campaign Volunteer Unintentionally left on a W. Virginia woman’s answering machine after the volunteer was unable to get her to pick up her phone. (via)
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ESPN: NFL Power Rankings - May 2008 →
Out of 32 teams: #19 - Buffalo Bills (End of 2007 Season Rank - #19) #24 - Chicago Bears (End of 2007 Season Rank - #20) ‘And then depression set in…’
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Watch‘The Day There Was No News’ - Pixelsurgeon (via) Brilliant! Love the “crawl”.
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Watch‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe’ (Trailer) Meh, from a trailer-effectiveness perspective. From a 10-years-removed fan of the first film standpoint: cause for celebration. IGN deserves a sack punch for the kludgy Flash interface, BTW.
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Buffalo Bills Waive TE Kevin Everett: Allows NFL... →
Team also paid 2007 salary while player miraculously recovered from horrific, on-field spinal injury. Compassionate move from a classy organization. Go Bills!
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eBoy's Los Angeles →
Your My world, pixelated. Larger version at site. (via)
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“I’m not 40-something; I’m 39.95 plus shipping and handling.”
– Anonymous
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Craftsman 1470 Piece Professional Tool Set →
I won’t even ask to see the tool belt they’re selling for this. (via)