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McDonald's Recruiting Video Uses Green Day to Pit Teens Against Parents and Peers

Columbo Gone

from E! Online
Columbo Star Peter Falk Dead at 83
by JOSH GROSSBERG
NBCU Photo Bank via AP Images
Peter Falk, the legendary actor who graced both big screen and small over a 50-year career but will perhaps best be remembered for his Emmy-winning role as the shabby-dressed, wisecracking homicide detective on TV's Columbo, has died. He was 83.
Falk's family confirmed to CBS News [...]

Ed Templeton @ Half Gallery

from Exhibition A

JAMES FREY PREVIEWING ED TEMPLETON'S HALF GALLERY SHOW
POSTED ON JUNE 23, 2011 BY EXHIBITION A TEAM

[ click to view at Exhibition A ]

Barcodes Gussied Up

from The Wall Street Journal
Art in Aisle 5: Barcodes Enter Expressionist Period
By SARAH NASSAUER
Design Barcodes Inc. (man, skyline); Vanity Barcodes LLC (3)
Some proposed barcode designs, from left, depict a hand mixer, jelly beans, skyline, school bus and trousers.
Package design has become so artful, it has come to this: Even the barcode, the style runt of product [...]

It's gettin' real in the Whole Foods Parking lot….

Canucked In The Nuts With A Stun Grenade

Gagosian iPad App

from PR Newswire
Gagosian Gallery's iPad App, Designed by Award-Winning Firm @radical.media, Launches Today Taking Users on an In-Depth Journey With Gagosian's Artists and Exhibitions
NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Gagosian Gallery announces the launch of an application for the iPad, available as a free download from the iTunes store, beginning today. The app will be updated [...]

Family Dog Abuses Toddler

m_f: Top 10 Literary Smack-downs

from mental_floss
The Quick 10: 10 Literary Smack-Downs, Quips, and Squabblesby Adrienne Crezo - June 14, 2011 - 10:21 PM


There's an adage they give you when you receive your name badge at the door of Writer Land: "You only compete with yourself." While most authors hold true to this (at least in public), there are those who make [...]

Isaac Asimov on Libraries

from Shelf Awareness
Quotation of the Day
Forty-Year-Old Wisdom About Libraries
"[A library] isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a [...]