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Mediocrity Pays

AbeBooks.com—a great resource, by the way, particularly for hard-to-find titles—just revealed its top 10 most expensive sales for January 2011. + more

Say Goodbye to Workplace Productivity…

Duke University has opened up its digital archive of vintage television ads. There are thousands of ’em, and they’re available + more

Monday Miscellany

Like a bajillion or so other folks, I watched the Super Bowl yesterday, tuning in just in time to witness + more

Friday Bonus Post!

Because it’s Friday—and to make up for letting all of Wednesday go by without posting—I present April Smith and the + more

A Capital Idea

An area of writing that frequently causes consternation among our clients is, surprisingly, capitalization. If I had a nickel for + more

Like We Didn’t See This Coming

The short—and, one would think, obvious—answer to this question is “Yes.” What’ll really be interesting is seeing what takes its + more

Monday Miscellany

Today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. To celebrate, employees at Sealed Air, which manufactures $4 billion of the stuff annually, + more

Cheap Pun

It’s been said that the politics in academia are so vicious because the stakes are so low. Case in point: + more

Nabokov Knows Butterflies

Turns out Vladimir Nabokov—author of Bend Sinister, Lolita, and Pale Fire, among others—was right all along when he hypothesized that + more

It’s a Thorny Issue

Descending into the bowels* of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture this afternoon, I happened to notice, hanging on + more

People Are Starting to Talk

The latest issue of PROOF! just got a little love from BUILDblog, so we’re giving a little right back. If + more

Happy Birthday, Mr. Vibraphonist

In honor of Gary Burton‘s birthday—which is this Sunday—I’m a-gonna treat you to a funky little blues number of his + more

Guess Ad Agencies Are Gonna Have to Get Creative Now

Bad news if you’re a celebrity pitchman: “Over the course of [the] last year…endorsements were largely ineffective and failed to + more

Scientists Create Army of Mutant Super-Chickens

Researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh have managed to engineer chickens that don’t transmit the avian influenza virus + more

Something Smells Funny

While he’s Spokane’s best-known fine artist, Harold Balazs’s finest contribution to society may very well be “Transcend the Bullshit,” his + more

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