Articles Posted March 2009
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We’re inside the Visual Junkie Store
Hello! Is anybody out there? Here we are inside Visual Junkie, an online store in Norway . We love it here but we’re encountering some very interesting characters and we’re not sure what they’re all…
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RVCA: Where edge and art make money
There we were on the vast information highway in search of some type of raw aesthetic. And didn’t someone say life is a highway? We were driving for the sort of thing that refuses to…
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t tell jokes on Oprah
In the latest episode of geeks in the news, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who’s done a ton of press appearances, ascended to the biggest stage of all, appearing on Oprah. It was a good match.…
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Technology can help your pitch problems
If you’re like us, you can’t help but get hopelessly hooked on every season of American Idol. You love Simon because honesty is so rare these days. You can quote the judges. Especially Randy Jackson…
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How not to be a fulfillment specialist
You break out your brand new $150,000 degree and then they tell you – Humanities is more of a way of life than a qualification for a job. So you take a job in one…
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Nothing comes between a man’s brain and his sports car
In one such study, Daimler-Chrysler studied the male brain on cars. They found that the sportier car models lit up the reward center of men’s brains. Surprise, surprise. This center also lights up for alcohol and drugs. All of which says we could potentially solve a lot of problems if we only gave every man a sports car. Hey Oprah, are you paying attention? You get a sports car. And you get a sports car. Everybody gets a sports car. Utopia has been achieved.
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Nerd courage: Steve Wozniak is a dancing star
Stop the presses. Sound the trumpets. One of our own has joined the ranks of “Dancing with the Stars.” Geeks everywhere should lay down their flash drives, their external hard drives and all other technorati…
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Should a dead guy make your promotional products?
Johnny Cochran is dead as a doornail. (Theories abound as to the death and doornail comparison, but the top vote-getter on Yahoo answers has something to do with old nails making a dead thud as…
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Graphic designs by Fairey and a rebel named KAWS
Graphic designers everywhere can jump for joy at, not one, but two CBS Sunday Morning stories about a couple of their own leaping the great divide into the world of fine art. Shepard Fairey who…
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Get hooked on the crystal Blu-ray persuasion train
Except in the case of Blu-ray. It’s not really the annoying Eddie. Five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs says Blu-ray’s star is rising. Predictions are for 100 million Blu-ray “units” to be sold this year. And what exactly is a unit? Enquiring minds are working on that.
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