The only logical conclusion: Andrew Potter is killing this duckling
The juxtaposition was irresistible. Seen in Armchair Books in Whistler yesterday.
15 Apr 2010
Brilliant: Facebook offers dial-testing for tonight’s UK leaders’ debate
I’d be reassured if I knew they were taking steps to ensure a reasonable level of participation from civilians rather than party activists wound up to pump their guy and trash the others… but that said, this is a very clever idea.
13 Apr 2010
The illustrated family
Alex just published a blog post about using the iPad as part of family multitasking – and with it, a cartoon I drew on the iPad of an only-slightly-exaggerated Saturday morning in our living room.
(The primary exaggeration is around the amount and thickness of hair I actually have. In my defence, the iPad-and-Pogo-Sketch combination doesn’t really allow for the fine-grained control needed to capture the true sparseness of my remaining cranial broadloom.)
By the way, it’s a great post and a fun look into our lives (I feel compelled to add that she depicts us at the absolute apex of our multitaskiness) – go read.
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It’s based on one of our most popular blog series, and we think you’ll find it timely. Budgets for organizations – whether they’re corporations, non-profits or government agencies – are tighter than they’ve been in a long time, and every program has to justify itself. That’s especially true when we’re talking about something as new as social media.
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6 Apr 2010
One phrase, many meanings…
How “Christ, What an Asshole!” is the Answer to the New Yorker Magazine Caption Contest
via modernarthur.com
Yeah, I laughed. The writer takes a series of New Yorker caption-contest cartoons and adds the same caption to each one (occasionally varying the punctuation).
The main problem I have with this piece? I now automatically swap that caption into any New Yorker cartoon I see.
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Creative Commons Licence. Please attribute to Rob Cottingham with a link to the content's original page on this web site. For more information, contact Rob at rob@robcottingham.ca.
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