Jun. 19th, 2005

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The marketers at the coffeehouse have decided to "brand" the chain as something different, something fun, something personal, and something not at all Starbucks. Good idea. They've done this by issuing brochures full of adjectives in large white sans serif fonts, and by a poster campaign of customers and employees sharing their differentness and specialness and not at all Starbucks ness. It's the last few Apple ad campaigns, basically. Bad idea.

We're responding with the most mature and sensible thing we could think of: Photoshop contest! Well, not really contest in that we have no prizes and no one cares. But we intend to amuse each other. I took bad digital pictures of the posters tonight, so you can see what they're like. Prepare yourselves for lens flare and blurring and other artifacts of the night shot. I suggest you start over with your pics and just try to simulate the ads rather than actually using these as models.

If you don't live around here or don't go to this place, this will be uninteresting to you. Carry on!

http://www.fringehead.org/album/diedrichads/

Edit: If you want to be in the one of the ads, go ahead: http://www.diedrichfeedback.com/

Edit Edit: The Register has a story from last year (!) about this ad campaign, in which they have also managed to insult the U.S. Marines. The campaign was created an ad agency in media hub Dana Point called "Collective Energy". I had no idea they had 473 stores. Where the hell are all those?
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veryhappydan
Originally uploaded by conradh.

Irish Dan finally took the plunge and is [livejournal.com profile] berg74, a stylish and forthright LJ name that says "I am the 74th person to try to use the first four letters of a common set of names here".

Let's have a big hand for Dan!

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Not only can I store images and bloggle them all over the place and rss them and put them in sets and juggle them in the air but I can keep too much information about them if I preserve the EXIF and XMP tags I made. That's kind of geek o riffic, really.

[livejournal.com profile] friendly_bandit is here about to go pick up his fiancée at the airport. They get married on Tuesday. Whoa.

thoughtful reggiT
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This person keeps posting on the mailing list for the macintosh mail plugin that allows you to use GPG privacy in your mail. Kind of a niche thing, you know, fairly narrow. Nor for the Ekklesia Foundation! It's all about the Big Picture for him/her/them.

Think globally, annoy locally:

the only reason mentioned the solar storms, geomagnetic storms and radio black outs were it delayed and hindered our downloading of mail of this forum;
in travels and catch what ever broadband, ethernet or wireless when we can . have found some light encryption can help when data streams are playing havoc.
there were a few satellite disruptions in some parts of the planet 17 June

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/sxi/current_sxi_4MKcorona.png take a look provided by US tax dollars

from the last few notes on the forum, much has to do with older means and manners access to internet:
a) we go back tot he days of modems of 300/75 baud and forever having to convert between 7 e 1 and 8 n 1
b) seen small wars before on forums over the last quarter of century
c) nothing has changed, issues remain

YES the Internet did exist well before the WEB which was introduced in 1993.

Do not think there will ever be any set standards, written in stone.
We have found e-mail exchange between users of GPG has had little issue, except maybe finding public keys; There are times e-mail with PGP and older versions are issues.

All we are saying internet is NOT Perfect!
Even the sun affects communications :-)


patience and perseverance remain
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Nun-Crucifying Romanian Priest Father Daniel, or Free Software Pope Richard Stallman?

You make the call!

New rule: People with Unix beards are not allowed to practice freelance psychiatry.

Story via [livejournal.com profile] switchstatement, who is my Bluebird of Happiness.
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non-Standard Station
Originally uploaded by t-squared.

Speaking of Ruscha, as [livejournal.com profile] besskeloid and I were today, here's a fine parody. Gallery of "Defaced Art" on flickr is here: http://flickr.com/photos/t_squared/sets/107756/

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Hils, the Loomer, and Gladys
Patio classic from 2003 January, 2004. Hils, Loomer Guy, and Gladys the nice old lady with Alzheimers.

surprise!

Jun. 19th, 2005 03:43 pm
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From the LA Times site:

Where is the Wikitorial?

Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material.

Thanks and apologies to the thousands of people who logged on in the right spirit.

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