Marketing continues to get ever more strange. An email I just received in what appears to be an email blast from a public relations company:
from Emily Held <[redacted]@pancomm.com>
to Tim Munroe <[redacted]@pancomm.com>
date Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM
mailed-by pancomm.comHey Tim-
Heads up, your office is smelling like fish…I had to shut your door.
Emily T. Held
PAN Communications, Inc.
[redacted]@pancomm.com
Delivering high-impact public relations
From Spiegel, a newspaper, and its interview with Wired editor-in-chief and author of the new book Free* Chris Anderson, in which he talks some crazy: Anderson: Sorry, I don’t use the word media. I don’t use the word news. I don’t think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. [...]
When, besides the shower, was he ever naked? The wind was what made it a thing, and the sun, curling under to dry between his legs. He felt awkward there, exposed, his thighs open to let the wind move around but not so much that his legs would touch much of the silver roof underneath [...]
Printing doesn’t just use paper—it also uses ink. So Dutch design house SPRANQ have created a new font, “SPRANQ Eco Sans Regular”, that peppers its arms and ascenders with holes to use less ink when printed. Thus, its common name: “ecofont”.
David Simon’s on a tear again about the news. Newspapers, specifically—he wants the Times and the Post to put up a pay wall. It might be a good idea. I mean, I doubt it, but even though I’m counting my pennies these days I would probably throw five bucks into the pot to pay for [...]
Music by the wonderful OFFICE.
I’d seen “Wally Wood‘s 22 Panels That Always Work” around the net here and there for several years, always as a low-resolution scan of a copy that was clearly the product of dozens of generations of photocopies. As a comics fan and occasional artist who absorbed what little drawing skill I have by copying and [...]