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Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

God is a Graphic Designer?

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Chip Kidd’s copy of the New York Times arrived with a great photo of the outgoing Russian President and his new counterpart. If you’re too lazy to click through then what the image shows is the new President’s crotch area is ripped aside and the headline behind it is Trickery. Yeh God sounds a lot cooler than when I went to Sunday School. So is God a Graphic Designer?

Aptana Studio 1.1

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Aptana Studio 1.1 is a free cross platform web development environment.

John and Brian Go Sub Prime

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Australian comedians John Clarke and Bryan Dawe do a brilliantly straight faced explanation of the sub prime mortgage crisis.

Torture Doesn’t Work

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

An interesting monologue from a Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogator - Torture Doesn’t Work! And I thought that was kind of obvious myself. We are breeding a world full of people with little to lose and a lot of reason not to be our friends.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Excellent use of classic movie footage used to position Hillary Clinton as NOT the person who is going to order a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Russia. Ummm but does she know the Cold War ended? Good question. Its 3am and I’m now a little more worried…

Hillary4U&Me

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Hey I really like the Hillary Clinton election song Hillary4U&Me - you can see how the evangelical marketing approach beats some old fart standing on a box saying “increase the military presence in IRAQ”. Marketing, marketing, marketing.