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The Rise of Digital Music (mint.com)

 
 

Sell The Vatican, Feed The World (Sarah Silverman)

real world racer - racing games meet google maps (Tom Scott)

 

Via Valentina Tanni

metal gear solid: philantrophy full movie

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy from Hive Division on Vimeo.

the greatest ad of the year (this will be remembered as a game changer)

bad taste: lancia delta sponsors the roadside bomb attack that killed six italian soldiers on italy's best selling newspaper

This is today's frontpage of Italy's best selling newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera. 

No, really. It has not been photoshopped. It's the 'real' thing. 

It makes me want to throw up. It's not even a matter of bad taste. It's just... pathetic. These poor soldiers have been killed twice. 

The juxtaposition of the headline ("Six dead soldiers") and the car slogan ("Power, Style, Technology") is just sickening. 

Congrats: You - advertisers and journalists - have now officially reached a new low. 

I look at this and I wonder why there's an article about a massacre in the middle of an ad that uses images of lions, fields, and trees to sell... a fucking car! ("Where they find their maximum expression" - who wrote this shameful copy? Really, get a life).

They say newspapers are in trouble. 

Well, do we really need Il Corriere della Sera?

iPedometer

Coniglio Viola Meets AudioSurf

new literacies, new audiences

"Andrea Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring. "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions." (Clive Thompson, WIRED)

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