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Today I happened upon an interesting website regarding brand recognition. I have always suspected that peoples logo recall is not as brandmakers would hope. While hardly scientific the site seems to indicate that rather forcefully.
Premise: walk up to random people on the street and ask them to draw twelve famous logos, nine global three European [...]
Scientists today discovered a new fundamental interaction. “Pepsitavity.”
Scientists working for Pepsico expended $1.2 Billion dollars to track down and harness this force of nature. Pepsitavity will power your cars, heat your homes, cook your food and induce you to drink buckets and buckets of Pepsi:
This is one of innumerable hilarious and seemingly earnest and sincere [...]
Nowadays Slacker Online steers pretty clear of mainstream politics, but today we make an exception.
As you know, efforts are under way to pass an… ambitious and quite socialistic package of legislation euphemistically billed as an “economic stimulus” package. Obama has a divinity complex and quite clearly feels entitled to do as he wishes in the [...]
Fresh on the heels of news that two satellites have collided in outer-space, comes news that two-weeks ago a French and British nuclear submarines collided.
The submarines, which each carried dozens of nuclear warheads grazed each other while their sonars were switched off.
The press, and politicians, have had a field day, the BBC cites Liberal Democrats [...]
Seven out of Ten stars; (See appendix for calculation.)
This article contains detailed analysis of crucial plot points and surprises. If you have not yet seen the film, but wish to do so, please stop reading right now and come back later.
What makes Bond, Bond? Why is he such a jerk, why does he do what [...]
Currently I’m working on an exhaustive review of Casino Royale. I’ve also got a few other projects going at the same time so things are progressing rather slowly.
So here are two quick film reviews, one positive the other negative.
The Invasion
2007, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
This film is a failed effort at a re-make and update of [...]
The following numbers place telemarketing calls to your mobile phone:
+1.251.957-6108
+1.773.549-3987
+1.732.526-0150
This is illegal and is a waste of your minutes, if you ever get a call from one of these number, hit ignore.
Four½ out of Ten stars (See Appendix for calculation)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick; Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Starring: Keir Dulles (Bowman), William Sylvester (Floyd), Douglas Rain (the voice of HAL)
2001, A Space Odyssey is a legendary film, and perhaps rightly so, as we shall see. This does not, unfortunately, mean that it is [...]
I’ve got no less than three feature-film reviews clunking around, waiting to be written. Four times in the past week I sat down and typed “Film Review” into the title-line and then gave up. I had no idea what to say… then the dog had to go out, again.
It’s the Holiday season. Lots of friends coming and going, one more leaving tomorrow morning. I could write about people coming and going! What a great Idea…
Well, on the other hand that wouldn’t be very original or even good come to think of it. At least twelve-hundred-sixteen other writers have written about friends, family and the holidays—it’s been done to death, as they say.
