I saw this ad during “A Shot of Love,” so I think you can understand why it was already about halfway through this ad when I realized that it was not, in fact, a very clever PSA for alcoholism. That said, I’ll probably be trying one tomorrow.
It’s like a trackball from the future and the middle ages, AT THE SAME TIME. I want.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing iPhones.
Via Choire: “Jann Wenner: Jim [Clark] and Marc [Andreessen] set up a demonstration. I’d never seen a hyperlink before. I don’t think anybody had. And it was kind of drop-dead amazing. That you could click on this blue, highlighted, underlined word and then, bam, go to a whole new level of information was dazzling.”
I think this explains a lot about why people thought Suck was successful.
Posted by Joe Klein
San Juan
A Stockdale moment: What am I doing here?
“The expression “books by the foot” sounds a bit strange to people. After all, most of us are used to buying books based on the quality of the text and/or the reputation of the author. Here at Book Décor, however, we see books for more than their intellectual value. We also perceive them as excellent design investments. If you want a book that you can read, enjoy and then toss aside, then head to your nearest bookstore. If, on the other hand, you are in the market for beautiful antique volumes whose appearance is more important than the actual text, then you’ve come to the right place. At Book Décor, we specialize in decorative books. From leather-bound foreign novels to gilt-accented antique texts, our books serve as magnificent design elements.”
Malkin: “Many readers have e-mailed about, Dunkin Donuts’ spokeswoman Rachel Ray’s clueless sporting of a jihadi chic keffiyeh in a recent DD ad campaign. I’m hoping her hate couture choice was spurred more by ignorance than ideology.” Ignorance over ideology, indeed…
