March 2009
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Earth Hour 2009: Saturday, March 28th →
8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth.
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“You know, it’s funny… This morning, outside of Penn Station, I saw a...”
– Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone political journalist, during his March 27th appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews, offering his opinion on the Minnesota Congresswoman’s most recent ideological vomit.
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“There is no problem so great that it cannot be overcome through creative human...”
– Ray Kurzweil
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Your Logo Makes Me Barf (dot com) →
Comic Sans and clip art as Syrup of Ipecac. (via)
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“When did Americans become the Something-For-Nothings? When did we get this lotto...”
– Bill Maher, on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, March 20, 2009
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Did Somebody Have A Birthday...?
Via The Writer’s Almanac, March 13, 2009:
He made his debut on this day in 1852 as a cartoon in the New York Lantern, drawn by Frank Henry Bellew. The name “Uncle Sam” had been used to refer to the United States since about 1810, but this was the first time that someone thought to make him into a character and draw him in human form.
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GOOD: Soda, Pop, Or Coke? America's First... →
In the process of making some serious room on the reference shelves for all four volumes. And it’s Pop, BTW.
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Hoosier Mama Pie Company →
Drats! No delivery. The name alone is worth the link.
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Get Your Irish On!
I’ve got all I need. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”
– Clay Shirky (via)
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Sunshine Week 2009: March 15-21 →
“… a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information.”
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Marketwatch: Chicagoans Will Stick With Sears... →
Lots of local flak flying after the owners of the city’s iconic Sears Tower agree to sell the building’s naming rights to their new, UK-based insurance company tenant. Willis Tower…? Really? Westfield tried this with Old Orchard. It’ll always be Old Orchard.
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The Periodic Table Of Typefaces →
Avoid exposing Mistral’s negatively charged properties to sunlight, as doing so will result in irreversible design meltdown. (via)
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“‘Cool’ was a counter-culture word. And now, there is no...”
– Chuck E. Weiss on being perceived as cool, from an interview on To The Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio) Saw him and The God Damn Liars once, at The Central. My feeble attempt at cool-by-osmosis did not work. For you kids, The Central was the Viper Room before the Viper Room was the...
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Ad Freak: Iconic Ad Campaigns Drafted To Fight... →
Repurposed for a purpose.
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Kvetch! (dot com) →
“Let it out, baby.”
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Buffalo Bills Management Buys Team Cancer For...
Terrell Owens on the 2009-2010 roster may get Ralph Wilson and Co. butts in seats and the national sports news spotlight (Hello, ESPN!), but at what cost? Smiles and humility, followed by scorched earth. (Photo: James P. McCoy/The Buffalo News)
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"I Survived The Bush Administration" T-Shirt →
Barely. (via)
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Retro General Mills Cereal Boxes →
Free of seizure-inducing design bombast, with nary a drop shadow, bevel or gradient. (via) (Image: thedieline.com)
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"Doesn't Matter What It Looks Like"
by Hal Sirowitz
“When you have blown your nose, you should not open your handkerchief and inspects it, as though pearls or rubies had dropped out of your skull.” — The Book of Manners (1958)
After you have blown your nose, Father said, it’s not polite to look inside your handkerchief to see what it looks like. You’re not a doctor. What’s more important is getting...
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Cats That Look Like Hitler (dot com) →
Site could’ve easily been launched as “Cats That Look Like Charlie Chaplin”, though probably to less of a hit count. Ah, marketing. (via joedubstyle)
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Bulls' Alums Van Lier And "Red" Kerr Gone
February 27th was a pretty crappy day for Chicago Bulls fans, as both hard-nosed former guard Norm Van Lier and the team’s first coach and longtime broadcaster Johnny “Red” Kerr passed away. I their honor, the current roster of underachievers managed to pull off a comebacker against Houston. A by-the-bootstraps playoff run would seem the best tribute of all. (Images:...