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Before 1939 the queue was usually a symptom of distress, like the sad shabby lines that waited endlessly outside the Labour Exchange, but during the war everything was in short supply so everybody had to queue, and some of them can’t seem to stop. Just as there are natural hypnotisees who cannot watch a mesmerist at work without being hypnotised themselves, so there are natural queue-joiners who cannot see two people standing on the kerb without falling in behind them.
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“AOL tried to acquire an older user base in order to get a larger audience which they could increasingly monetise and Bebo kids didn’t want to be on Bebo with their parents,” said the former Bebo employee, adding that there was also a lack of investment in the product – “too many vice presidents and not enough developers”.
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A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving… "It's that interaction with this incredibly complex system that makes the quantum coherence vanish."
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"So, I said I would work on something with the Fitzgeralds, and here they are in all their glory, ruining each other's dreams."
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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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