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It was obvious the character stickers were going to be a must do, but we pushed to create more, something fun for people to do, a hub for Chiquita fans to go to. Further thinking led us to giving bananas personalities and how all bananas start out good but eventually go bad (and for consumers not to let that happen)
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links for March 8th
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments
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Boris and his colleagues found a curvilinear relationship between the number of stars in a group and overall performance — so, having a few stars help, have a few more doesn't hurt (but doesn't help), but groups reach a tipping point where too many stars seem to dampen performance.
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How to Pick the right Chart by Amit Agarwal on Flickr.
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links for March 5th
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments
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The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 microseconds
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“Easy to assemble furniture. Tok&Stok”
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the subjects who read the same instructions in the hard to read font estimated that the regimen would take nearly twice as long, 15.1 minutes vs. 8.2 minutes.
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You get the feeling that if Storm the Charts found they were merely shepherding 30 hopeful unsigned boy bands towards the citadel of pop, their revolutionary fervour would quickly diminish.
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links for March 4th
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments
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"Shinedown make me long for the songcraft of Our Lady Peace or Matchbox 20… It's funny that there's this sort of anachronistic aesthetic that belongs to both the rock charts and the strip club. Neither is "cool" or cutting edge or artistically interesting for the most part, but they both fulfill some base need for their audience."
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Many advertisers who use the self-service system are tempted to go as far as possible in making ads that attract attention and appear relevant, aided by the information that people give to Facebook… “What a marketer might think is endearing, by knowing a little bit about you, actually crosses the line pretty easily.”
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During the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, the Russia House was located right across the street from a flagship McDonald’s location. These Big Mac boxes based on matyroshka, a set of traditional Russian dolls that decrease in size and fit one inside the other, were sent over to welcome them. Inside the final and smallest Big Mac box was a coupon for free food written in Cyrillic.
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links for March 4th
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments
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"Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st"
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links for March 3rd
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
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"London Sperm Bank (LSB) has launched a standalone brand, created by Silk Pearce, designed to recruit more male donors." - a curious area of supply and demand, which i think this logo addresses reasonably well.
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links for March 2nd
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments
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Two concepts by Renata Viega, a São Paulo, Brazil based designer. These would be a natural brand extention for Pantone, Nail Polish and Eye Shadow
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links for February 25th
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments
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Like, Python uses Python's own tokenizer to essentially add keywords to Python's lexical understanding. Python is a subset of Like, Python, so any script you've already written in Python is valid Like, Python and will run in the interpreter. But you can also write like you'd speak.
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links for February 24th
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments
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Partner: You know, I can't believe Death went down so easy.
Me: I can't believe they missed the chance to have the heart of Italian poetry say "Where is thy sting now, asshole?"
Partner: That's an Austrian accent.
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links for January 15th
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments
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Someone [who is rated as highly attractive] above gets nearly 5 times as many messages as a typical woman and 28 times as many messages as a woman at the low end of our curve. Site-wide, two-thirds of male messages go to the best-looking third of women. So basically, guys are fighting each other 2-for-1 for the absolute best-rated females, while plenty of potentially charming, even cute, girls go unwritten.
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Margaret Goodman called over the good mercer, Joanna and William Mose, a yeoman who just happened to be around at the time, and dared Westdeane to repeat what he'd just said. Which he did. "Thou art an arrante whore and came from Greenwiche."
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