Duke maintains a wonderful compendium of online ads scanned from magazines and newspapers from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Also, enjoy these weird ads: I’m not sure what to think of them. They just seem out of place today and it’s interesting to see how things have changed.
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I’ve been reading Leslie Savan’s excellent book Slam Dunks and No-Brainers, which cleverly shows the ways we use language. How does language move from slang to “pop”, from a back alley to a Madison Avenue commercial, and what does it mean when marketers believe that the only cool left is gained by imitating cool?
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Kristin Hersh, formerly of Throwing Muses, is offering
free downloads of a new EP for her group 50 foot wave. Catch some good tunes here. They have thoughtfully included both lossless and mp3 formats for your listening pleasure.
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If you’ve ever wondered how people are building web pages in addition to what they are putting on them, you may find this analysis by Google interesting. There is lots of data here, both to look at and think about, that shows how the process of building the web has changed over the last […]
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Visual Complexity is a fascinating compilation of different ways to render complex data. From business networks to art projects, this is that site that can help you answer the question, “where did I see that neato diagram”?
One of my favorites: the Big Picture from Cnet.
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