Okay, so this list could be practically endless. Here are just a few that popped into my head recently.

I Can’t Stand the Rain
Remake: Missy Elliot
Original: Anne Pebbles
Though not officially a remake, Missy Elliot didn’t just sample Anne Pebbles, she just grabbed the whole song

Downtown Train
Remake: Rod Stewart
Original: Tom Waits
Gaa! Rod Stewart is [...]

In his post G. Claude Rapaille and his dartboard Grant McCracken says “Claude Rapaille is a man without shame.” Well judging by his Austin Powers taste in frilly cravats that seems a fair statement. McCracken then goes on to say “The idea that there is a code! This is ludicrous.” This [...]

My last post got me thinking about the question of getting to market first versus getting to market right. The oft parroted common wisdom is that to succeed you need to get your thing to market first. I generally skeptical of anything oft parroted. Sure the early bird gets the worm, but [...]

This week’s Monday Morning Must Read catalyzed a lot of stuff I had been reading and thinking related to innovation and China. I’m going to make a little prediction (the good thing about dramatic prognostication is that if you’re right you get you say I told you so, but if you’re wrong no one [...]

Le Corbusier called the house a machine for living. Apparently Frank Gehry believes a building to be a machine for proclaiming his self-indulgent ego and stylistic histrionics. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one with a deep bowel-felt revulsion for nearly every pointlessly melodramatic curved surface Gehry starchetects? Gah!
Just follow these [...]

Recently I’ve been cleaning out my file drawers and closets, going though a lot of old material I haven’t seen or thought about in some time. Some work I had collected on TRIZ (a Russian innovation methodology) struck me with its connection to my “Remote Associations” post back in early February. Just as [...]