I was going to go with, “Nike announces new football kits for World Cup” as the title but I didn’t want to completely alienate whomever might accidentally find themselves on this page… Last week Nike announced new national team jerseys for 10 teams in advance of this summer’s World Cup, including the US and favorites [...]
The Olympic ashes are still warm and the sponsor companies are already throwing their money towards the World Cup, which starts in June. This ad from Pepsi was just released: I really don’t know what to think. First of all, this ad features two of my very favorite players: Thierry “my face is so smooth [...]
New Iphone iPhone app that takes dictation for you, from a well-known company in the speech recognition field. I have seen their dictation program that is specific to the medical field, and it works well. What’s interesting about the new iPhone app with regard to punctuation is that you can say the names of the [...]
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is a literary journal that usually focuses on short fiction. They make a point of not sticking too closely to the formula though: one poetry-focused issue included a poem, whose author picked a poem by another poet, whose author picked a poem by another poet, etc. Another issue featured 8 individually bound [...]
Yesterday AOL released images of its new logo. We’re going to spend some time looking at this “rebranding” effort to understand what the goals were, and whether they were successful. I have to say I’m a little confused. I thought AOL stood for America Online, and it turns out this used to be true, but [...]
