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"This poster campaign seeks to signal the changes on the way by apologising for various perceived sins, including complacency, predictability and the afore-mentioned negativity. None of the posters mention the newspaper by name, but simply carry its Eros logo." — I'd thought there was going [...]

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Last.fm Fan Finder [by Dinosaurs Eat Everybody]
"Fans of artists similar to your band should be fans of your band, right? Last.fm Fan Finder helps find users who are listening to artists similar to your band, but aren't listening to you." - a nice way of looking at a "backwards" recommendation system.
(tags: last.fm music [...]

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tweenbots | kacie kinzer
Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can’t go that way, it’s [...]

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adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » Toy abuse for fun and (non)profit
There’s also going to be a button inside his paw, which will rebase the scale to the current value of the market - so squeezing his paw will switch the LEDs back to yellow, and then they’ll change colour the next time [...]

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MySQL Showdown: Querious vs. Sequel Pro - TheAppleBlog

(tags: opensource apple theappleblog software osx database sql development )

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David Mitchell: Ignore these witches, Mrs Burnham | Comment is free | The Observer
The whole Academy Awards palaver must be the most long-winded method of disseminating a tiny amount of information that has ever been devised. Staying up to watch them is about as efficient a way of finding out the results as building a [...]

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The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler's Unsung Hero
"I knew how Aronofsky was planning to work it in to the story but seeing it done was completely different. The way [Rourke] looked when he asked D'Leo to play, the whole back and forth about COD4, it really gave the feeling that Randy was living in [...]

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slightlyfoxed: Dad's nose. Mum's eyes. The Conservative Party's chutzpah.
"It positions Gordon Brown as some kind of sinister interloper in the inheritance of the child - genes from Mummy, genes from Daddy, random bad stuff from WHO IS THIS MAN? What has he to do with the FAMILY UNIT (which is two-parent and closely biologically related)? [...]

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GameSetWatch - DICE 09: Valve's Newell On 'Using Your Customer Base To Reach New Customers'
“Last weekend, we decided to do an experiment,” he says, referring to this past weekend’s Left 4 Dead sale, which brought the game down to $24.99 through Steam – sales rose 3000 percent, and revenue far eclipsed the game’s sales during [...]

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When it's OK to raise prices - Feb. 18, 2009 | CNN
If a Hermès bag were priced temporarily at $200 instead of $5,000, the whole meaning of the brand would shift radically. Even nonluxury businesses - pizza and gasoline, say - face the same risk: Competing on price could define you as a commodity.
(tags: marketing [...]

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