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Popup Fiasco is Ian Haigh’s personal blog, for all things I find interesting but not too geeky (see how I switched from third to first person there?). This blog is tall and skinny. Like me.
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Art & Copy
Art & Copy is a new documentary about advertising, featuring people with surnames such as “Wieden”, “Kennedy”, “Goodby”, and “Silverstein”: Like the talented subjects he profiles, Pray creates a rousing synthesis of art, commerce, and human emotion. “Rousing synthesis”? Sign … Continue reading
Chris Doyle Guidelines Redux
The Christopher Doyle Identity Guidelines juggernaut shows no sign of losing momentum — this time in the form of an article in Creative Review. Well, fancy that! (See previous article here.)
I'm An Idiot
Woah, the latest xkcd describes me exactly.
Eye on Springfield
It seems unpossible just how good the early Simpsons episodes were; just the still frames are funny. A band of Springfield aficionados blog their favourite moments from seasons one to nine on Eye on Springfield. “Each leap brings us closer … Continue reading
Letterman's Top Ten George Bush Moments
Number eight is just wonderful. Via Daring Fireball.
Tiltshift Photos
Tiny? Tiny! In a process that appears to employ some sort of “blurring”, boffins have put the terrifying tools of miniaturisation into the hands of the great unwashed. You can make your photos appear to be little models of the … Continue reading
The MacBook Wheel
Just in time for MacWorld Expo: The MacBook Wheel. An example of the predictive sentence guessing: “The aardvark asked for an aardvark.”
The Simpsons Parody Mad Men
Mmmmmmm … silhouette …