Monthly Archives: October 2010

On advertising / from a working library

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy, that there is no other model for supporting reading save the ever more noisome sale of cellulite creams and cell phones, that our ingenuity has been so fully drained we cannot envision any other scenario by which […]

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Unlogo back on Kickstarter

It’s back! Friend of the AAA and occasional contributor to this site, Jeff Crouse, has a new project he’s trying to get some support for. Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from your personal media. The AAA isn’t as flush with start-up funds as we used to be, so […]

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The Secret Lives of Big Pharma’s ‘Thought Leaders’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

In the early 1970s, a group of medical researchers decided to study an unusual question. How would a medical audience respond to a lecture that was completely devoid of content, yet delivered with authority by a convincing phony? To find out, the authors hired a distinguished-looking actor and gave him the name Dr. Myron L. […]

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American Films and Absurdist Film Fest

We’ve written about American Films before. They have a new video. Much like Warhol, except not as neat. And they’re organizing an Absurdist Film Festival.  What’s not to like?

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OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied

OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied French artist OX takes over Austrian billboards and shows his approach to the Austrian flag in form of a huge sausage on former advertising spaces. via OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied.

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