The very first author whose name we have on record was a woman. And she’s been compared to Shakespeare. Her name was Enheduanna (?????) and she lived from 2285 to 2250 BCE. Enheduanna was installed as High Priestess of Ur (now in Iraq) by her empire-building father Sargon 1, King of Akkad. So she was […]
Mars once offered a reward of 2 million dark chocolate M&M’s for the return of the recently stolen painting “The Scream”. The offer was tied to the launch of an 2006 ad campaign for Dark M&M’s. Mars added a rather terrifying red M&M playing hopscotch in their version of “The Scream” As the slogan says […]
Just before a firing squad executed him, Gary Gilmore was asked if he had any last words. “Let’s do it,” he said. Swoosh to Dan Wieden, the founder of Wieden + Kennedy agency. Wieden told Dezeen Magazine how he picked the “Just do it” slogan: “The reason I did that one was funny because I […]
Back in 2003, Plymouth University students received £2,000 from the Arts Council to give six monkeys one computer for a month. After six months, the Shakespeare monkeys had failed to produce a single word of English, broken the computer and used the keyboard as a lavatory. They pressed a lot of S’s,” researcher Mike Phillips […]
Milkshake Duck – The phrase so famous you never heard of it. Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary has awarded “milkshake duck” its 2017 word of the year. On June 12, 2016, Australian cartoonist Ben Ward tweeted it to describe our tendency to foist instant celebrity on some person and its inevitable backlash. In Ward’s tweet, the cuddly duck is accused […]
Called someone a smart aleck lately? Well, you just compared them to a 19th-century pimp. Turns out that Smart Aleck was a real person – and not one you’d like to meet down a dark alley. Or any kind of alley. Missouri professor Gerald Cohen writes that the term is derived from a real-life person. Alexander Hoag was […]
Here are some gems for a real world marketing directory. Content calendar What we’ll do if everything works perfectly, you pay on time and nobody has a day off. Content. Lorem ipsum Polyfilla to anyone except the harmless drudge who has to write it. Best Practice. What everyone else pretends to do. Or, […]
A Chinese restaurant has gotten in trouble for offering discounts based on bra size. The Qianjiang Evening Post reports local complaints about the above poster for the Trendy Shrimp restaurant. One complaint said it was “vulgar advertising” and “discriminatory towards women”. The posters have already been removed. Trendy Shrimp general manager Lan Shenggang tells it straight […]
A neural network system has learned to name craft beer from a huge dataset extracted from BeerAdvocate.com. Credit: Lewis and Quark Researcher and electrical engineer Janelle Shane has already trained AI to name kittens, metal bands, Pokemon, paint colors, and more. The AI-generated craft beer names vary from likely, to weirdly impressive, to bet-level […]
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