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Extracurricular Reading/Watching/Listening

September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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The Awl is kind of hilarious and charming and wry and all those things you look for in a good time-killing website. Token staff Irish guy explains some of the lesser-known ridiculous Irish viral trends in a five-part series. This week: Irish Rap.
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Garbage-ologist, Robin Nagle, is the staff anthropologist at the New York City [...]

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ChatRoulette Horndogs Be Warned: The Advertisers Are Coming For You

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Social media, social media, social media. Everybody has to have it whether they know what it is or not (and after that last post you’d better have it down). Too often, however, companies’ social media efforts are slapdash and result in a poorly maintained  facebook page with sporadic news updates no one really cares [...]

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Communication Breakdown #5: Talk to Strangers

July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Since childhood, we’ve been strongly advised against, if not completely forbidden from, talking to strangers. They’re scary, have candy, and are invariably a threat to you for reasons beyond your ability to comprehend. So we stay away, or are locked in the minivan away. But as we get older, there’s rebellion. The itch for [...]

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Who is Charles Phoenix?

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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He is an appreciator of kitsch pop culture, a fashion designer, a humorist, a tour guide,  a collector, a regular correspondent on The Martha Stewart Show, a performance artist, an author, a historian, and a mediocre cook. When you boil it all down Charles Phoenix is a histo-tainer (his words, not ours). He combines [...]

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Tiny House, Regular Sized Guy. Like, Whoa.

January 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

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Communication Breakdown #3: The Unsung in Your Favorite Song

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Communication Breakdown #3: The Unsung in Your Favorite Song
In my first week of college, I had begun using music as a refuge from stress. The songs felt familiar, personal, capable of communicating things about myself I could not yet express, and had the power to equalize everything for me, but why, I didn’t really know. [...]

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Sketchy Santas

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Nothing gets us in the holiday spirt quite like a slideshow of children sitting on the laps of unsavory characters. Did that come out wrong? Thank you internet for Sketchy Santas.

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Just Because…

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Christopher Walken Performs Lady GaGa’s “Poker Face”

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Saving the Planet One Pixel at a Time

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Could a micro eco-adjustment like changing fonts really be that the answer to our economic and environmental woes? Has our rampant and unnecessary use of blold and fancy fonts in inter-office documents proven to be our true downfall? Has it been staring us in the face all this time? We don’t know but the [...]

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Designed for Designers

October 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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CreativeSearch is a search aggregator created to help solve creative dilemmas with minimal effort. Type in a word or phrase, click the go button and CreativeSearch brings you results from YouTube, Twitter, the blogosphere, Google Images, Amazon, Flikr, iTunes, Wikipedia, news sources, instructional videos, sound clips, and of course Google and it presents them [...]

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