Jaffa Cakes lickable wallpaper and 8 news and trend-hunt blogs that featured it

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              via Think.BigChief‘s facebook feed. I like the different angles that the different sites used, in talking about this really odd (successfully viral) promotional idea from Jaffa Cakes – “Spot of Jaffa”. Putting a lick-friendly surface in a public space.   Geekologie‘s emphasis on the weirdly unhygienic nature of … Read more

Google wants to know what I love.

There is something about this new quirk from Google that tugs at my heart.  Or at least evokes some sort of feeling – much more than Google+, at least.  Which they launched with much more fanfare. It’s probably the phrasing of the question, I know.  The quaintness of it, the femininity, the allusion to passion … Read more

Around the net: the next wave in smart photography, cultural windsock-reading, a cool book and an amazing illustrator

Just some links I found nice. 1.  Hchom New blog to add to my favorites.  Quiet, warm, beautiful.  And with a lot of posts with bread in them. And chocolate. I love the pictures she (Marian Churchland) takes and her illustrations.  I even like how she named her blog. Not too articulate description, sorry, but … Read more

Copious (via Fast Company): Quite fitting

Thanks to Fast Company for this post on Copious, “a new online marketplace that leverages Facebook’s social graph”. I don’t think anyone (who lived before the 80′s) could have predicted how the Internet, or the computer, would transform the aspects of our daily lives — from taking mementos of ourselves, to talking, to doing business. … Read more

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