Posts tagged “Coca-Cola”

Oh, man. If you haven’t already seen them yet, pause for three minutes, break out the Kleenex, and watch these ads from Apple and Coca-Cola. They’re two of the best commercials I’ve ever seen.

• The Timeless Beauty of National Geographic is a wonderful article examining the stability of a famous brand aesthetic. (I used to love reading NG in my elementary school library when I was a kid and just last year decided to get my very own subscription. Every article in every issue is fabulous, just as they always have been.)
• “The most well-known use of Spencerian script is, arguably, the Coca-Cola logo. The logo was designed in the 1880s by the company’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson.”
• Repeat after me: Taking Photos In Public Places Is Not A Crime
• National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR. (I guess that’s better than Dweezil.)
• Finally! More photos of kitties in wigs!
• “Losing friends is inevitable. Making enemies is not.” — from 35 Lessons in 35 Years
• “This year is the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, the Star Wars sequel that many fans consider the pinnacle moment in a franchise that has pulled in $16 billion in box office and merchandising. But 1980 was also the year that Kurtz and Lucas realized the Jedi universe wasn’t big enough for the both of them.”
• Technology is great, for sure, but you’ll never pick up your iPad and find a perfectly preserved, century-old press pass to a World Series game in its digital pages.
• “Resizing my browser window to make sure it fills up my entire screen will not make me focus on your pretty pictures or admire your wicked design.”
• If you’re looking for seriously advanced computer knowledge — like how to determine the size of an image of Robocop riding a unicorn — take a look at Unicorn Tips.

• General Stuff
  • Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates is fascinating.
  • If you go through life free of bad habits, you won’t live forever, but it will feel like it.
  • Top Ten Favorite Numbers
  • I guess if hanging out with beautiful women, on the beach, in Spain, drinking, on a Tuesday afternoon, while being ridiculously rich is your definition of “cool”, then… yeah, being Leonardo diCaprio is probably fun.
  • When you’re old, you have to have something to give you pleasure.
  • So what does all this mean if you’re ambidextrous?
  • I read Men’s Health and Sports Illustrated all the time. I never read Time or Newsweek. This is why.
  • I can’t see any special effects, but I find it hard to believe that this amazing waterslide jump real.
  • Coke vs. Pepsi: The truth about the logos.
  • About a decade ago I worked for a company that did “every-other-Friday-off” and I thought it was extraordinary.
• Techie Stuff
  • The Smoking Gun catches a loser.
  • Apple releases Mac OSX 10.5.8 update. If you have a Mac, click the little Apple logo in the top left and choose “Software Update…” to update your system. (This means you, mom.)
  • To keep the Google Analytics code from interfering with page rendering you can use jQuery to load and execute the ga.js file.
  • PHP comes with a bunch of functions designed to help you manage URLs.
  • And speaking of URLs… Comcast will now send you to a crap spam page if you type an URL incorrectly.
• Gator Stuff
  • Urban Meyer: This is it.
  • The University of Tennessee has some serious issues.
  • Welcome back, Riley!
  • College Football Preseason Top 25 Power Rankings: Cheerleader Edition