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Choire Sicha writes about the visual evolution of the internet over at The Awl.
Sicha discusses the fact that advertisements are being woven into the content of websites, such as promoted tweets from a corporation being plopped to the top of one’s twitter feed.
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As we watched the stick, scantily clad models parade onscreen for public consumption, my daughter turned to me, her face tight with disgust, and asked, “Why would women do that?”
...more“We see your picture of Harry Connick Jr. standing near yarn/Tommy Lee Jones using a kleenex/insert-your-weird-pitch-here, and we raise you a picture of Wil Wheaton collating paper.”
Accidental and intentional reply-alls. “Fucking bitch” name-calling. This email exchange between The Bloggess and a PR firm should not be missed.
...moreSo a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that. Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever. Radium Razor Blades! (I’m serious.) But let’s say it’s 1848: now how do you make yourself the product of the future?
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I’m not exactly an insider here at The Rumpus. I’m not really an outsider either. I’m the Sunday editor.
“Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you will have a huge advantage if you can read a paragraph and discern its meaning (a rarer talent than you might suppose)…
“Studying the humanities will give you a wealth of analogies.
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A visual history of tourism ads.
The Ghost Orchid has risen from the dead.
And as long as we’re on the subject: the Pompeii fast food establishment Thermopolium is set to reopen.
Free public light for all! (woo!)
I would live the shit out of this truck house.
...moreMaking America skinny one slap at a time (via The Usual Suspects)