April 2012

How cool is this?! I’ve won my very first Instagram photo contest! Promoted by Spyhouse Coffee: “The winner of Week 2 of the Spyhouse Photo Derby Challenge is @bigboxcar. Excellent capture of boys being boys.” Nobody was hurt, btw. You can see all the entries here – and there are some very cool photos. My

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ianbrooks: Cardboard Monster Truck Hearse by Paul Sahre Made for They Might Be Giants, Paul Sahre’s office concocted this mad scheme for a 12 foot tall cardboard monster truck hearse… that could be printed and assembled yourself at home. For reals: they managed to to confine the absolutely ginormous instructions on a PDF to be scaled

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How I got my Augsburg College Coffee Mug and became an Auggie: After posting a Mugshot Monday the other week, @AugsbergCollege engaged me in some Twitter dialogue’n. Result: I’m an honorary Auggie! AND I now own an Augsberg College Coffee Mug. It’s a good day. (I’ll be using it next week – until then, I’m

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Mr. Karp: Is it better to break things up and optimize? I don’t think there’s much precedent for it [Not just one revenue plan, but many.]. If you look at Google and Facebook, they’re ubiquitous platforms that scale the whole way through. Adwords isn’t a particularly useful or creative platform for a band debuting their

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reuterspolitics: “Texts from Hillary” — go figure! On a secretive trip by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Tripoli, only days before the capture and killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, I photographed Clinton aboard a C-17 transport plane. She was wearing dark sunglasses while texting from a makeshift desk she was working from. Okay,

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