June 2012
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For dire situations... →
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The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty →
Research by Dan Ariely shows that everyone cheats a little if given the opportunity. Factors that increase dishonesty include the ability to rationalise, creativity (!), cultural examples of dishonesty and watching others behave dishonestly.
May 2012
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Facebook - The Collective Hallucination →
Analysis of Facebook IPO and how it may signal the death of Facebook as an (effective) advertising machine.
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What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its...
– Herbert Simon.
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December 2011
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The Comic Sans Project →
Imagine a world filled only with Comic Sans. This tumblr project is either a travesty or sheer genius.
November 2011
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Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are...
– Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
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I have a theory, which has not let me down so far, that there is an inverse...
– Alan Moore
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Social gestures (social sharing in the context of a brand, business or person)...
– From Jason Lorimer, “We’ve all been hacked”.
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The real genius of Steve Jobs... →
Everyone knew where the windows and the icons came from.
“Well, Steve,” Gates responded. “I think there’s more than one way of looking at it. I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
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I am looking forward to reading Isaacson’s biography on Jobs once exams are...
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October 2011
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Love happened all the time, everywhere... →
This is beautifully written… there is nothing more to say, really. I wish I could write like this.
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September 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get...
– CLP - Vanity Card #329
BWAHAHAHAHA. That aired at the end of Two and a Half Men.
The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, and, frankly, our...
January 2011
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Thank you Tumblr!
oatmeal:
They used my TumblBeasts!
Thanks guys!
-The Oatmeal
This is why Tumblr rocks.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...
– E.B. White
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not...
– Henry Ford (via Minimalist Trader | Resume is Dead)
Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to answer...
– William Allin
Things real people don't say about advertising
tpdsaa:
Submitted by CopyGuy.
If you have any interest in marketing, you must visit tpdsaa’s tumblr. Lots of laughs to be had.