cubemate | Dan Ng

links for 2008-04-01

• BBC NEWS | Health | Oregon's healthcare lottery
  (tags: shame americaisathirdworldcountry)

links for 2008-03-31

• We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps'
  Via nylonmeals.
  (tags: book books creative geotagging)
• Online Olive Oil Encyclopedia© - The Olive Oil Source
  No, Alex, they're not dyed black.
  (tags: olives foodsafety)

links for 2008-03-30

• Facebook | Baskin-Robbins 31 Cent Scoop Night
  82,434 confirmed guests and counting. (Thanks, Eric)
  (tags: facebook marketing)
• Game Maker Profile: area/code
  (tags: areacode entertainment interaction GameDesign)
• Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong
  (tags: management marketing culture)
• Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More - New York Times
  "He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, 'the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.'”
  (tags: physics calamity doomsday)
• Poll: 1 in 10 get Obama's religion wrong - Yahoo! News
  I'm most disappointed by the hint that the unprompted descriptors of Obama are 'Muslim' (and presumably accompanied by 'black'). Besides not being factual, it misses the point about a candidate to describe him or her by race and religion, surely
  (tags: obama elections politics race)
• BA to offer business travellers free Wi-Fi
  About bleedin time that my £3000 business ticket comes with free Wi-Fi. It's not like my company pays that premium for free soda or crapf sandwiches. Maybe now they can actually save money on the grotty PC's they've been providing.
  (tags: WiFi BritishAirways businessclassonly)
• New York's smokers still fuming, five years after ban - Yahoo! News
  No, really it worked. The one year 11% drop in tobacco-related deaths is dubious, but otherwise it seems like bars and restaurants made as much money and it's not so toxic.
  (tags: health legislation)

links for 2008-03-29

• Modernista!
  (tags: integration advertising agencies agency api art artdirection design development websites)
• Rolling Stone : Anti-Emo Violence Plagues Mexico as Attacks Increase
  I thought iPod culture did away with music cliques globally. Apparently in Mexico, 800 punks and rockabillies have gone emo-hunting. Disturbing.
  (tags: emo music violence cliques)
• YouTube - Emo Se Defienden
  Footage of anti-Emo sentiment at an Emo peace rally. Emos in eyeliner, police in riot gear, punks with mohawks...and then suddenly, Hare Krishnas.
  (tags: emo violence music cliques)
• Writing - Cooking - Life » Blog Archive » I Heart Zappos
  (tags: zappos customerservice bestpractice business shoes marketing)
• QQ rakes in cash
  The scale boggles.
  (tags: China qq internet)

links for 2008-03-21

• Communications: The impact of cellphones on the price of grain in Niger
  (tags: business development mobile)
• Why great planners have to be dumb
  A lot of sense - on the right track
  (tags: accountplanning advertising blog)
• Verge
  (tags: ogilvy marketing)
• When a Brain Scientist Suffers a Stroke - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog
  (tags: medicine neuroscience video stroke TED)
• VW_Jetta_Configu_Video.mov (video/quicktime Object)
  Scanned asset applications
  (tags: Volkswagen)

links for 2008-03-20

• Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air
  Now that's geekdom.
  (tags: Apple mac pbs charlierose macbookair geek)

links for 2008-03-19

• At SXSWi, Jane McGonigal talks about 'The Lost Ring' | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
  (tags: thelostring)
• McDonald's is lead sponsor of Olympics-themed ARG, 'The Lost Ring' | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
  (tags: thelostring arg)
• Dave Knox - IEG 2008 Presentation on Youth Marketing » SlideShare
  Via Ed Cotton.
  (tags: pandg marketing trends youth)

links for 2008-03-18

• Living Small - New York Times
  A world one generation removed for me (and less for others in my family) and unfathomable for most of the people I work with
  (tags: migration immigration chinatown housing)

links for 2008-03-17

• GOOD 009 - Features - Buying Organic
  (tags: brands business consumerism organic green)
• Verizon Gets Cozy With P2P File-Sharers: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
  Pando, NBC, p4p - all falling into line as the incentives for filesharing start making sense for network operators
  (tags: verizon pando p2p p4p)

links for 2008-03-15

• YouTube - Hamlet cigars - photobooth
  (tags: bestbritishadvertising)