I really want this.
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Turns out people do go to garage sales in November.
I want these so bad.
Chef went to the local butcher today and, used to being treated like a nuisance, decided to make himself even more of a nuisance. He asked the guy behind the counter, “I know that in the Midwest we can get up to fifteen different breeds of cattle in here, so do you know what [...]
A Lesson in Content and Distribution
Published August 29th, 2007 in Advertising, Business, Consume, Entertainment, Indiana, Sports and Technology. 3 CommentsThe Big Ten Network debuts tomorrow, piquing the interest of many a Midwestern college sports fan. The Big Ten Network is a subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is decidedly evil and way too rich for his own good, in partnership with the Big Ten universities. The network plans to carry all [...]
Baby Einstein Videos Don’t Work
Published August 15th, 2007 in Advertising, Children, Consume and Education. 3 CommentsDisney is in an uproar demanding a retraction on a University of Washington study that their Baby Einstein videos don’t advance children’s learning development, and in fact “infants who watched DVD’s and videos designed for babies understood fewer words than did infants who didn’t watch the recorded programs.” No news yet on whether Disney [...]
If I had a dollar.
Little girls today may be encouraged to imitate the trampy looking dolls that fill the toy shelves, but Brooke Shields was a living Bratz doll for much of her formative years, and yet the she had the strength to stand up and walk away when she’d had enough. The little girl who quietly got knocked [...]
Porn for designers and illustrators.
Is it true that shortly after you sign up for Netflix the movies start coming more slowly through the mail?
Things that suck: Spending your Saturday trying to fix the error on your taxes that will not allow you to e-file, an error that you’ve been trying to fix for month, and a window pops up in the help section saying, “Thank you for your patience.”
My patience ran out sometime in March, thankyouverymuch.
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