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Red Bull Makes Big Splash with New Competition.
On August 23rd, an extraordinary event took place in the German port-city of Hamburg. The world’s top 10 cliff-divers gathered here to demonstrate their abilities and claim the title of 2008 Red Bull Cliff Diving Champion. More >
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Acoustic Landscape Turning into a Barren Wasteland?
In the Amazon rainforest lives a tribe called the Jivaro. They hunt at night, carrying no torches or flashlights. Starlight and moonlight don't penetrate the canopy. But Jivaro hunters do not need to see. They listen. More >
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Caffeinated Inspiration: Napkin Art Promotes Roaster.
In New Zealand, a series of artistic ads were created for a local coffee company. Ten artists created 30 pieces of art - all made using coffee napkins. The ads were displayed in bus shelters along an Auckland Street. More >
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Squeezing the Good out of Saturation.
As of today, the results count for a search on "tee shirts" is 8,090,000. Make that search more specific — say, for “glow-in-the-dark tee shirts” — and the numbers narrow to 682,000. More >
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Time for On Demand Magazines.
After four years of development and testing, and almost a year after first being publicly announced, Time Inc. has finally launched the beta version of its virtual newsstand delivery service Maghound.com. More >
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05
Making Memories or Imagining Them?
Over at Strange Attractor, my pal Mark Pilkington points to two articles on the fascinating subject of false memories. More >
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NYC Tapped for Perplexing New Product.
“No glaciers were harmed making this water,” reads the copy on the homepage at tapny.com. “Not from the top of some far away mountain,” it says on the site’s “manifesto” page. More >
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Send Your Readers Away and They’ll be Back.
There are two main reasons why news sites are reluctant to send readers away by linking to third-party content. First, you shouldn’t send people away or else they won’t come back to your site. More >
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02
Guitar Hero Let’s You Play Producer.
Rumors have been swirling about what the mystery instrument would be in the upcoming Guitar Hero: World Tour. Our money was on accordion, but the truth is that the "instrument" isn't really an instrument at all. More >
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Targeting Bodegas: Popping New Brand Extensions.
The past four days at four sites around Manhattan, Target opened their Bodegas, four popup shops to feature the products from its 22 designer partnerships. More >
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