Here is my silly contribution to the now closed thread at YayHorray where people with too much time on their hands, and ready access to photoshop have posted some famous logo redesign work, 2.0-style. Paul Rand has left the building folks.

Here is a brilliant cultural mashup from a jewish girl living in Beijing (and I have it on good authority that her accent isn’t too bad for an American).
And here are some less brilliant examples of east-meets-west cultural mashups. It wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t so permanent–silly white devils.

I suppose there is an endless supply of people passing unsubstantiated personal opinion as established fact, especially online. Kathy Sierra’s recent post (see below) is but one example of this epidemic corrosion of knowledge. Kevin O’Keefe at Lexblog gives us another example. Of course he isn’t just some pusher of high-fructose-corn-feel-goodness—he’s a […]

I’ve never been a fan of “what’s hot, what’s not” lists. However CNN money has a very interesting article about how the Jack Welch business dogma may be working its way over to the “not” list.
Now I will admit that Welch has probably forgotten more about running a business just this week than […]

Just because blog posting is technically effortless doesn’t mean it should be intellectually so. I’m not railing against fluffy posts about trivial matters—I love fluff and trivia. What I am railing against is the all to common practice of posting a thin pretense of insight that crumples under the lightest scrutiny—I’ve labeled these […]

Why on earth do all coffee mugs come equipped with that little (and sometimes not so little) puddle receptacle on the bottom? What purpose does it sever other than to collect enough water to make a mess on the floor every time I empty the dishwasher?
This is a part rhetorical, part serious questions, I […]

Sorry, I’ve been out of touch lately. We’ve just moved into out new place, and I’ve been fighting back cresting waves of boxes and old junk I don’t remember ever buying (where does it all come from?!). So this move that I’ve been wrapped up in for a couple of months now is […]