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It’s Time to Stop Talking About the Apple Cult

By Dave | Published: January 26, 2012

Via: http://techland.time.com/2012/01/26/can-we-stop-talking-about-the-apple-cult-now/ Thirty-seven million iPhones. Fifteen million iPads. Fifteen million iPods. Five million Macs. A million Apple TVs. No matter how you do the math, that’s a boatload of gadgets–and it’s how many Apple sold in the final three months of 2011. The company’s profits–$13.06 billion–were the second-highest in the history of American business, after [...]

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One of the original “Mad Men”

By Dave | Published: January 25, 2012

Via: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/i-am-lousy-copywriter.html British-born David Ogilvy was one of the original, and greatest, “ad men.” In 1948, he started what would eventually be known as Ogilvy & Mather, the Manhattan-based advertising agency that has since been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns, and in 1963 he even wrote Confessions of an Advertising [...]

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Forgotten Space Station Concepts That Never Flew

By Dave | Published: January 24, 2012

Via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/space-station-concepts/ The history of space station design is littered with concepts — some elegant, some strange, and some remarkably cute — that were passed over for one reason or another. Here, we look at some space station ideas that didn’t quite make it off the drawing board.

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Ron Paul in an Astros rainbow uniform (1976)

By Dave | Published: January 24, 2012

Via: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/ron-paul-stars-astros-rainbow-uniform-76-congressional-135224691.html Almost nobody likes Congress. The polls say so. But I’ll say this for the federal legislature: Republicans and Democrats play each other in a baseball game every year, and that partly makes up for whatever it is they do the rest of the time. Back in December, Summer Anne Burton of NotGraphs published [...]

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