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• July 6, 2009
  1 hour ago Hating on Ticketmaster: Yeah, they're ripping us off. But maybe not by as much as we think.

  Saw this infographic in this month’s Rolling Stone— this is a really interesting breakdown of Ticketmaster and where the dollars actually go.
  
  It seems as though it might just be really crap…
   
• 16 hours ago Tugging at emotional heartstrings: Don't go! All your friends will miss you if you deactivate from Facebook.

  

  via collison.ie

  Knowing Facebook, they must have AB tested this and found it to be massively effective. Lets show photos of the opposite gender, and tell you that they will miss…

   

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• July 3, 2009
  2 days ago Windows ex-honcho Jim Allchin on WIndows Vista in 2006: I would buy a Mac.

  I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free…

   
• 3 days ago posterous helvetica-tized logotype

  

  via flickr.com

  type-micah on flickr is helvetica-tizing tons of logos. i believe this means taking an existing logo and re-imagining it with helvetica.

  actually posterous already…

   
• July 1, 2009
  5 days ago There's space for innovation everywhere, even where you least expect it. Like your vacuum cleaner.

  

  via telegraph.co.uk

  Sir James Dyson has unveiled a new motor. He’s got 50 guys working on it in the UK. At first glance, vacuum technology seems like the least sexy thing in the…

   
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• June 29, 2009
  1 week ago Manipulating the world stage through a web browser: NY Times suppresses Wikipedia to save its reporter

  

  via nytimes.com

  NY Times reporter David Rohde was kidnapped in Afghanistan on Nov 10. Knowing the Taliban check Wikipedia to find out who they nabbed, friends of Rohde updated his…