This annual report (for a Croatian food company) ships wrapped in foil, and needs to be baked in an oven in order to make the thermal-reactive ink illustrations show up.
Note it’s only the Recipe Book (2nd additional book) that is needed to be baked to be seen. As a designer I love the idea. It’s [...]
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Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, says multiple sources. Half the price was to be paid in cash, half in stock in the buyer.The company, which has raised just $1.1 million in capital, has been on a tear [...]
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I was reading about how book sellers in Frankfurt where judging how popular books where going to be by how many where stolen…
The Frankfurt Book Fair has an indicator to help publishers gauge public interest in the new offerings presented at the annual exhibition — the unofficial “most stolen book” index.
Bild am Sonntag and Germany’s [...]
I was reading an article on Musical Independece Revolution about how a number of bands are skipping past the record labels and selling directly to the fans. Basically doing what has been said they need to do for decades now.
Looks like Radiohead’s latest independent approach to album promotion and sales, basically giving away [...]
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I’ve been saying this was going to happen…
“The SCO Group, Inc. (”SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition [...]
To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions.
First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to [...]
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I’m reminded of a line from Independance Day (The Will Smith Movie):
“You don’t think they actually spent $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat do you?”
A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to [...]
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Ok, it may of been a few years since I’ve used condoms. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t find the following Reuters article interesting…
British condom maker Futura Medical Plc said on Thursday that results of a study showed its new condom helped men have firmer and bigger erections, as well as a longer-lasting sexual [...]
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John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocket.
It was the most expensive dime ever to pass through San Jose. That’s because it is the most expensive dime in the history of dimes.
“All [...]
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Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just released “Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright,” a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright. He’s presenting it in Berlin this week, but it’s already online. Here’s the abstract:
The optimal level for copyright has [...]
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