TAG: bestarticlesof2006
The Confession of an American Jew
"Everybody wants to know, but nobody wants to ask: Why are Jews funny? In search of an answer, WAYNE GLADSTONE travels far from the roads of good intentions."
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Second Life: What are the real numbers?
"If most of the people who try Second Life bail (and they do), we should adopt a considerably more skeptical attitude about proclamations that the oft-delayed Virtual Worlds revolution has now arrived."
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Scott Adams, illustrator of Dilbert, came down with something called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Basically you're brain forgets how to speak in normal context. No one had ever recovered. Until now . . .
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"Reginald Pike's Yael Staav takes us from model to billboard in under 60 seconds in this impressive new spot from Dove."
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The bizarre story of Michael Oher, left tackle for Ole' Miss.
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"What would happen, I wonder, if I actually told the truth about what happens in a design process?"
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Great list of "10 Ways to Love (and respect) Your Customers"
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Banksy creates 500 of his own remixed version of Paris's new CD and drop lifts it at music stores around the UK.
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"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
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Roger Federer as Religious Experience
"How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis."
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The death of the double entendre
"Advertising has forgotten how to be subtle. Worst of all, it requires no cultural competencies to decode."
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Momus answers the question: "What should I blog about?"
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Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969."
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Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability
Dan Hill talks about hackability and architecture.
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"I would love to hit some point, in a few years, where I throw out perfection as calmly as a child tosses a ball. It's something to strive for."
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Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?
Cookie monster tries to come to terms with his monsterous tendencies.
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Rethinking Every Rule of Reinvention
Four Strategies to Avoid at All Costs
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The Worst President in History?
One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush
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May Contain Non-Design Content
"But the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else . . And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer."
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A deep look into the psychological effects of the reality television process on its stars.
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