January 30 2008
Hannibal’s Straight Jacket is Removable
posted by Ana Samways at 11:40 am
Silence of the Lambs Lego-like figures… Hannibal’s straight jacket is removable. (Link)…
I quit: How to leave your job with flair…
Online forums are a great place to discuss ideas and innovations. And out of such a think tank come the most novel ideas…
10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong: According to Psychology Today our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. For example:
“We underestimate threats that creep up on us. Humans are ill-prepared to deal with risks that don’t produce immediate negative consequences, like eating a cupcake or smoking cigarettes. As a result, we are less frightened of heart disease than we should be. Heart disease is the end result of actions that one at a time (one cigarette or one french fry) aren’t especially dangerous. But repeated over the years, those actions have deadly consequences. “Things that build up slowly are very hard for us to see,” says Kimberly Thompson, a professor of risk analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Obesity and global warming are in that category. “We focus on the short-term even if we know the long-term risk.”
Picture This: A security breach at Myspace allowed someone to download the private photos of 44,000 random accounts; there are indeed some very strange people out there…
LadyThrills.com advises women on how to snare a man: A story called Act Like A Lady, Get What You Want includes wisdom like this:
“Always wear heels and skirts on dates, and unbutton only the first two buttons of your button-down shirt. If you want to act like a lady, a bare torso and ample bosom are unacceptable.”
How glasses affect your image: A nice series of ads…
Video: Time lapse photography at the Panama Canal. More time lapse wonders here…
February 7th, 2008 at 6:12 am
[...] Belgium seems to be ahead of the game when it comes to optician advertising. Here’s a clever print ad for a Belgian optician, by LG&F in Brussels. (See three more executions after the jump, via Spare Room.) And here’s another interesting ad in the category, by Belgium’s BBDO Proximity, featuring a sales letter designed in the form of an eye-test chart. (Via Coolz0r.) [...]
February 7th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
[...] Belgium seems to be ahead of the game when it comes to optician advertising. Here’s a clever print ad for a Belgian optician, by LG&F in Brussels. (See three more executions after the jump, via Spare Room.) And here’s another interesting ad in the category, by Belgium’s BBDO Proximity, featuring a sales letter designed in the form of an eye-test chart. (Via Coolz0r.) [...]