If you’ve never been to the Archie McPhee store in Seattle or their website, you should go there now.
There you’ll find all kinds of weird and hilarious items such as the Uh Oh… Emergency Underpants
and Bacon Soap
But I really love their tag line: “Slightly less disappointing than other companies.”
With this type of merchandise it’s perfectly fitting that they wouldn’t take themselves too seriously, but it is still very refreshing.
Tweet Here’s Bill Buxton, talking about “natural” user interfaces. If you’re short on time, skip to about 2:08. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcdrfacG_y4] Tweet
Tweet Here’s Ken Hinckley, of Microsoft Research, demoing his explorations of the use of both pen and touch on a touch screen. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sTgLYH8qWs] Tweet
Tweet A clever ad by Pearl Izumi who creates cycling and running wear. They want to put their 4D Chamois on Uranus. Tweet
Tweet Last week I became an Uncle. It was ON the due date that I had an idea of a couple things I thought would be really fun to bring to the hospital after the baby was born. I found what I wanted on Cafe Press, and I knew I likely didn’t have much time ...
Tweet I’m getting married in September, and as I was looking to create a website of relevant wedding information, I naturally found myself at eWedding.com. So let me walk you through my experience. I arrive at the homepage: There is nothing here that gives me any sense that this product is anything but free.It’s littered ...
Tweet On Earth Day, Axe suggested saving water by taking your clothes off and enjoying the company of like-minded acquaintances, or even attractive strangers, and shower-pooling. Tweet
Tweet Marketing campaigns do not require spending loads of money, nor are they limited to just placing boring ads in publications that will be overlooked. In fact, creativity can produce an ad that will cost next to nothing, and yet be much more effective and memorable than the mainstream methods. Here are a couple examples ...
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Tweet I see a lot of talk of A/B testing — mostly around web design. Most often this is concerning things like the text on the landing page that the user first sees, by which the user decides if they are going to stick around or bail. Or the location and size of a ‘Buy’ ...
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