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Klute style is back – neat and naughty

by | Aug 8, 2007 |

The New York Observer gave a half page last week to the apparent revival of a close-to-the-brow ("neat and naughty" says the article) haircut made famous by Jane Fonda in the 1971 film Klute, by Alan Pakula. Headlining with Donald Sutherland, Fonda won an Oscar...

50th Anniversary for Kerouac’s On The Road

by | Aug 8, 2007 |

This year is the 50th anniversary for Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." As I discovered in crawling some blogs, Kerouac had pretensions on French aristocratic lineage, although apparently his name is Breton. I don't know about you, but there's always been of On the Road...

Aggregating Blogs as new form of Journalism

by | Aug 7, 2007 | ,

My posting on the Tour de France was picked up by this "Bloggers looking for the straight dope" article in Slate, an online magazine, owned by The Washington Post Company. Again, this is a new form of journalism -- picking up on the beat on the 'net. I'm flattered to...

Clean Slate

by | Aug 7, 2007 | ,

Cyber journalism may be taking on a new slant... What if [new age] journalists just spent their time outing the silly things people say and do, behind the slim veil of anonymity, on the net. Take this most recent outing revealed by Lucy Caldwell on Slate via a...

12 kinds of ads

by | Aug 7, 2007 |

Here's an example of on-line learning, from Slate. There are only 12 kinds of ads. I thought this slide show by Seth Stevenson, revisting Donald Gunn's 1978 theory about there being only 12 kinds of [master] ads possible, was a great little exercise. It certainly got...

Misplaced ad placements

by | Aug 6, 2007 |

Courtesy of Opinionated Marketers, found this posting about 15 ads with unfortunate location. The naughty ones tends to win out over the morbid, in my opinion. There are location (real estate) and timing (jokes) mantras that come to mind.

Psychiatry is politics… and dollars and cents

by | Aug 5, 2007 | ,

I had never been fully exposed to the downside of psychiatry until I visited this week the exposition "Pyschiatrie: la vérité sur ses abus" in Paris at the Hotel Castiglione, 40 rue deFaubourg St Honoré. Sponsored by Citizens' Commission on Human Rights CCHR* (French...

Mahjong can cause epilepsy

by | Aug 4, 2007 |

Whatever next? The BBC report states that a study in Hong Kong reveals that Mahjong can cause epilepsy. Are they for real? A "unique" Mahjong strain of epilepsy? The BBC report writes "Mahjong is cognitively demanding, drawing on memory, fast calculations,...

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