I love this AMEX commercial. Creative, beautiful. (via YouTube)
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How To Load Up Your Kindle With Non-Amazon Ebooks (via The Consumerist) »
So you’ve got a Kindle, and you have books on it, and you want to keep those books—no matter what Amazon or a publisher decides you deserve in the future. Your legal options are limited, but you do have some.
Venn Diagram - Happiness in Business (via budcaddell)
IDEO Method Cards »
IDEO Method Cards show 51 of the methods we use to inspire great design and keep people at the center of our design process. Each card describes one method and includes a brief story about how and when to use it. The cards are divided into four categories: Learn, Look, Ask and Try, making it easy to reference, browse, sort, and share the cards.
Deadline Stop Motion (via Fubiz) »
One of the coolest stop motion animations I’ve seen in a long time.
Quotes on Design »
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Epidemia de Pánico / Panic Epidemy (via Eneas)
Spirits Rising (via WSJ) »
In 1831, Pyotr Smirnov was born to illiterate Russian serfs in a village so remote that walking at night required clanking metal sticks together to scare off the wolves lurking at forest’s edge. But he had ambition and intelligence.
As a teenage apprentice to an innkeeper- uncle in a nearby town, he observed the mechanics of pricing and supply. In his 30s he set up shop himself as a small-time liquor peddler.
By 1886, he was selling two-thirds of Moscow’s vodka. Soon he was purveyor to the czar, presiding over a company whose product saturated the vast Russian empire.
Jerry Stahl on how he quick smoking crack by using heroin. (via The Moth podcast on iTunes)
And it happened as the Philistine arose and was drawing near David that David hastened and ran out from the lines toward the Philistine,” the Bible says. “And he reached his hand into the pouch and took from there a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead.” The second sentence—the slingshot part—is what made David famous. But the first sentence matters just as much. David broke the rhythm of the encounter. He speeded it up. “The sudden astonishment when David sprints forward must have frozen Goliath, making him a better target,” the poet and critic Robert Pinsky writes in “The Life of David.” Pinsky calls David a “point guard ready to flick the basketball here or there.” David pressed. That’s what Davids do when they want to beat Goliaths.”
— Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
