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Patrick Havens on November 3rd, 2008

A coffee house in the Netherlands called CoffeeCompany USES THE NAME OF ITS WI-FI NETWORK TO SELL COFFEE. The company frequently changes the name you see when your laptop searches for a new network to goofy things like “OrderAnotherCoffeeAlready,” “HaveYouTriedCoffeeCake?” and “BuyAnotherCupYouCheapskate.” [props to AdRants via TheRawFeed] Maybe its because I jump on Starbucks wifi [...]

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Patrick Havens on October 28th, 2008

I’m often bombarded with ideas on how to monopolize this blog (and others I have).  Most the time I take the information, glance over it and ignore it.  But in this case the “network” I was getting emails and updates about, Pepperjam, kept adding more features and becoming more and more interesting.  This last one [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 16th, 2008

The below ad is posted on Flickr and my first thought is that it must be a Photoshop, followed by, “I can’t tell by the pixels…” Most Husbands… by SA_Steve

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Patrick Havens on February 21st, 2008

Warning yes, I’m married to a blond.  And no I don’t think she’s this stupid, but… Maybe I need to get BlondeStar?

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Patrick Havens on January 9th, 2008

I trust your judgment… I’ve come to dread those words. I get many jobs a day I need to deal with. Some are simple changes to existing artwork. Some are new designs that the customer has pretty much typeset the entire thing already, and I’m just bringing it to reality. But there are times I [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2008

I found below interesting. I knew some of it… but in a few cases I was surprised at the answers. Some colors become huge successes early on and then fade off into obscurity… while other colors go the distance and become international icons. Here we look at 11 of the great color legends… Stop Sign [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 3rd, 2007

Ok I got offered to try a new Ad thing from Google called YouTube Video Ads.   And considering I had a few people actually mention they like the little mini video Ads that sometimes showed up on the site (Yes some of you are unusual… but you know that).  I decided to implement them. Currently [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 9th, 2007

As every trillionaire knows, the easiest way to turn a quick profit is to take something that’s just lying around, put your name on it and sell it in huge quantities. Doing something that adds concrete value to the product is usually required but lately, the value-adding standards have been slipping. We’ve tested samples of [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 16th, 2007

Ever wonder where those perfect days where… how those women REALLY look great… how ideas for commercials came together? Here is a relatively short clip showing some of the little tricks that are used in processing the videos. Note: This video doesn’t show exactly how they where made, it shows more the construction of a [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 2nd, 2007

FUTURE HOMES will be able to face any direction, turned from hour to hour or season to season by electricity America’s Independent Power Companies, 1956[Vintage Ads] I found this site to be extremely interesting. With a large number of older Advertisements, its also a great way to see what people thought decades ago. With great [...]

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