has written a piece on the right’s – and Bill O’Reilly’s – crusade for XMas: The Grinch who saved Christmas. Like so much of the crap from the right, though, it’s totally founded on specious claims that set up a straw man they proceed to attack.
Jakob Nielsen:
Most Hated Advertising Techniques. What’s your least favourite advertising technique? For me it has to be auto-playing any sound whatsoever when I visit a site.
Spoonman!
Kate over at montreal city weblog is covering a “local colour” story that isn’t really very funny: Ogilvy’s Spoonman under legal attack. Apparently someone thinks his spoon-playing is annoying – from six stories up. For my part, local colour should definitely win this one – the complaint is ridiculous and indicates more than anything that the mobile enema squad is urgently needed.
What’s on your Mac?
I know that a high proportion of my readers (both of you!) are Mac users. I haven’t really kept up with what’s going on in the software world lately, but I’m always curious. With that in mind, what cool software have you found lately? What interesting tools will help me manage my email or perform some important function I don’t do often enough (like backups for instance)? Any suggestions?
The other day Barlow posted
an anger-inducing tale about “Homeland Security” and overzealousness in the name of safety: A Taste of the System.
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