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A weekend in Sunny, Windy, Rainy Dorset

by Minter Dial | May 19, 2009 | Travel

We spent last weekend in sunny, windy, & rainy Dorset, around the wedding of my dear old friend, Tom. Using our Tom-Tom to find Tom was something of a leitmotif for the weekend as we drove around endless country roads hidden from cows’ views by huge parallel...

The Guns Crisis Continues – How can it be reversed?‏

by Minter Dial | Apr 23, 2009 | Politics

Gun sales in the US have gone [blasted a hole] through the roof since the end of last year. In November 2008, after the election win of Obama, requests for gun licenses in the U.S. spiked +42% to 1.5 million. The following months have seen year over year increases of...

Mosquitoes – At last, a possible eradication plan?

by Minter Dial | Apr 17, 2009 | Entertainment

For those of you following this blog, you may know that among my interests is Astrophysics, with a focus on the String Theory, smoothly vulgarized in Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe.” (Here is Greene’s Faculty page at Columbia; and PBS...

Twitter: Global Village or Recessionista?

by Minter Dial | Mar 28, 2009 | Social Media

Twitter, it seems, is making mainstream headlines daily these days. Yesterday, the IHT featured on page 2, an article “A truth renewed online: It still takes a village,” which begins: “Twitter and Facebook are, OMG, so last millennium”. The...

LIDL – A web campaign that merges value and values

by Minter Dial | Mar 8, 2009 | Marketing

MEANINGFUL MESSAGES AND SINGULAR SHOPPING EXPERIENCES… A consumer’s journey with a brand Ever since I latched on to the Firebrand (RIP) site, I have been interested in the concept of advertising as content, beyond merely being a reflection of contemporary...