Spotted doing the viral rounds and unattributed (though watermarked with a URL that redirects to Elbe Spurling's website) this wall of Dr. Pepper knockoffs is a magnificent lesson in branding magic and semiotics and all that fancy jazz.
What killed the romcom? It was Love, Actually
Richard Curtis’s sexist, saccharine turkey is being recooked at a time when TV romance is far superior. May it teach filmmakers to aim higher.
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Turkey for Easter
I must say this turkey in my car smells delicious. Must get an air freshener like this.
🎧 This Week in Google #400: Toot, Not Tweet
Burger King's new ad sets off Google Home on purpose. Mastodon is great, but it's not a Twitter killer. Facebook's $14 million investment in reputable news. How to keep from being dragged off a plane. Whatever happened to Google Books' plan to digitize all books?
Kevin Marks guests on the show and discusses Indieweb, Mastodon, and GNU Social beginning at about 1:18:00 into the show.
📖 7.44% done with American Amnesia by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
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Slow progress, but there’s some great material here. At times I wish there was actually more underlying material that I know they could have included to increase the strength of their arguments. I’m already seeing some anecdotal evidence that could be bolstered. It’s still very interesting.
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So you think that you control what you read, watch, and listen to? Better take a closer look…
Many will know and understand the outline of the argument here, but it’s important to read the details of the case studies so we can help break “The Cycle”, an aptly named problem.
In some sense, this is a microcosm of governments over the past 12,000+ years when looked at from a Big History perspective.
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Joined Trakt.tv
I just joined the television/film scrobbling service Trakt.tv. Curious how/if I can work it into my own personal website. It would be cool if it supported micropub.
I’m already tracking some of what I’m watching here. You can even subscribe to the feed.
Reading my Facebook and Instagram Streams again via RSS
I’ve really been loving reading my Facebook and Instagram streams on my own website using Ryan Barrett’s versions of Facebook Atom and Instagram Atom webapps.
Twitter is coming next, but I need to tweak some lists to pare things down.
This feels so 2008, and I mean that in the best way.
Practicing my Japanese
Spent some time practicing my hiragana and basic Japanese with Memrise, which has both really quite a lovely webapp as well as a mobile app. こんにちは
Test to see if superfeedr picks this up
Test to see if superfeedr picks this up
🎧 #91 The Russian Passenger | Reply All
Somewhere in Russia, a man calls for a car. Somewhere in New York City, a stranger’s phone buzzes.
I keep hearing about these guys. They’re alright and have an interesting banter and style, but the overall topic was just painfully uninteresting to me. Meh…
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Why You Should Never Accept The First Hotel Room You’re Offered | Huffington Post
Be courteous, but firm.
Six reasons Mastodon won’t survive | Mashable
The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.