First - the COnsume More font from SMeltery . Probably useful for one of our advertis-y presentations, yes? Download for free here. I'd also like to point out that since my Monday morning posting of the dulcet reggae tones of Mr. Marley and his three birds, stocks rallied. That's right, Bob Marley c...

A Passionate Rant about Social Media "I blame the executives who ask their teams to do whatever they read was cool in this Sunday's NYTimes Magazine, or heard was cool this morning on MSNBC, or was told was cool at the last TED conference without bothering to ask if it's the right thing for the long...

Holy shit, why is there not more of this out there? Prepare your groove pants for the greatness of Ann Arbor's Mayer Hawthorne, a sometimes blues-y, sometimes funky, but always soulful album that probably belongs more fittingly in 1966 rather than 2009. Very few records get me as excited as this one...

It's hard not to love the trend towards better data visualization; all those complicated stories made much easier to understand. But really I just wanted to bitch about the ridiculous number of advertisers now "feeling our pain" with their very own "bailout" special or "stimulus package." Seriously,...

We think of ourselves as mostly rational beings, separated from the animals based on our ability to reason, to control emotion. It's a subject Jonah Lehrer (if you're not reading his blog, you're missing out big time) tackles in his new book, "How We Decide." It's an image with roots throughout hist...

We like to say that we tell stories, or shepherd certain narratives through popular culture, but in reality the instances of narrative are usually rather fleeting, a story told in 30 seconds, then sacrificed to the big idea. Better said, we make bits to be consumed by the lowest common denominator r...

The Beauty of Street Photography Some fantastic street photos from Smashing Magazine. Toddlers & TV Further limiting the appeal of having children, now we find out that educational DVDs actually make the dumber? Damnit.  40 Brands on Twitter It's all been said. The Cheapest Oval Office Ever If ...

Rather than featuring a band, we'll take a step back and just pick our favorites from the fantastic Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008 from Hype Machine. You'll find the top 50 artists , albums and songs as posted by the music bloggers they track.  Check out the album section  first. It's super. Some of my...

"Inspiration is short-lived. It’s typically emulating other people, and it’ll push us for a week or two. But inspiration begins to extinguish quite quickly. And as Henry Ford once said, after that it’s 90 percent hard work. Inspiration may get us started, but it never keeps us going. And thatâ...

"Every effort to break through the clutter is just more clutter. Ultimately, if you don’t have clean, plain borders and backdrops for your ads, if you don’t have that blank space, that commons, that virgin territory, you have a very hard time making yourself heard. The most obvious metaphor is a...