A Man in the Mind

What you call Love was invented by Guys like me, to Sell Nylons.

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Leo Burnett once said

Make it simple.

Make it memorable.

Make it inviting to look at.

Make it fun to read.

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Dear Google:

A few years ago — years, wow — Google Reader was one of my go-to social networks. It was an accidental one. I was using it for its intended purpose — aggregating and reading a lot of web content in one place — but it turns out, a lot of other people were doing the same thing. A...

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Can you taste Music?

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The research project, led by Sió and Cluso, has the objective of investigating the relation between music and taste association.

In this first phase, you can play the different “flavored” versions of the music and experience this by yourself!

Go to the page

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Signatures of Famous CEOs

via Business Insider

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First look at Google’s expensive new Chromebook

Chromebook Pixel is a touchscreen laptop running Chrome OS.

It’s a high-quality machine with a gorgeous 2560×1700 display, but you’ll pay a hefty $1,299 (or $1,449, for the LTE version) for the privilege of owning one. via @Arstechnica

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Ad of the Day

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Make a baby today, save a bundle tomorrow.

Ikea Australia has done the math and come up with an amusing Valentine’s Day offer—a free crib for babies born nine months from today.

You’ll have to clip out the voucher and keep it in a safe place for those nine months, and also provide proof of birth (whatever that means).

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Epic Die Hard Ad

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Bruce Willis in Oslo

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One of the most talked-about ads on the Super Bowl night, when TV spots were being sold by CBS for between $3.8m and $4m, was done for free on Twitter. 

The agency said that the ad was “designed, captioned and approved within minutes”.

Sarah Hofstetter (president of 360i) said all the decisions were made in real time, as the marketers and agency members were sitting together at a “mission control” centre watching the game unfold.

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And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the field, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board.” So God made a farmer.

God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say,’Maybe next year,’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from an ash tree, shoe a horse with hunk of car tire, who can make a harness out hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. Who, during planting time and harvest season will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon and then, paining from tractor back, put in another 72 hours.” So God made the farmer.

God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bales, yet gentle enough to yean lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-comb pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the leg of a meadowlark.”

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed, and brake, and disk, and plow, and plant, and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft, strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh and then reply with smiling eyes when his son says that he wants to spend his life doing what Dad does. “So God made a farmer.”

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My favourite #superbowl commercial

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