“Currently [Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary] does not recognize ‘concepting’ or ‘to concept’ as a proper mode of speech. Seeing as this is a process that we, as creatives, use on a daily basis, I aim to have Merriam-Webster acknowledge our creative methods and make an addition to their upcoming edition.”
“I’ve been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that–with some exceptions–they are mostly clueless. Three years ago they had a traditional knowledge about consumers but didn’t know much about social networking and web 2.0 technology. Today, most of them don’t know about consumers and don’t know much about social networking and web 2.0 technology either. Mainstream ad agencies have one refrain–one message to their corporate clients–do social networking, do social networking, do social networking.”
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“Squirl is the best way to catalog, organize and share your records, movies, books, comic books, stamps, coins, or practically anything else.”
“Welcome to the Cockeyed.com roundup of prescription drugs which use CG animated characters in their advertising…. Even worse than Mr. Mucus and Granger, Digger the gremlin is the animated face of Lamisil. Digger represents a nail infection. In real life, a nail infection probably doesn’t hurt, but in the commercials, this guy bends a toenail back like he is opening the hood of a Chevy and jumps right in. It is horrifying. An uncut version of this commercial features his other exploits, including mass-murder and cannibalism. A doctor can help you get Digger out of your toenail, but he will never be able to get him out of your nightmares.”
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“There are literally over 8,500 programming languages in existence, yet despite all these options, the vast majority of us all use the same dozen or so. Whether it’s infighting among language creators, bad marketing, new technologies or just being a crummy language, there are almost as many reasons why coding languages didn’t become popular as there are programming languages. In this article we examine 12 coding languages that never took off, and the reasons they didn’t.”
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