A study published by the University of Washington’s Computer Science & Engineering Department shows that runners who use the Nike Apple iPod Sport Kit could be more susceptible to peeping Tom’s with some techie radio gear than you might think.
From the overview:
Our tools can track Nike+iPod Sport Kit owners while they our working out, as [...]

‘Tis the season for some creative business ideas.
We’ve see a couple of posts about new businesses that epitomize the term seasonality.
Take this one for Christmas decor as an example:
I heard a report on Wall Street Journal radio this morning about another example. It seems that many entrepreneurs with lawn service businesses are also getting into [...]

Surprise! Our brains enjoy more well-known brands than those that are lesser known.
That’s part of the takeaway from an article by HealthScout titled “Popular Brands May Brand the Brain.”
Better-known brands stirred up areas of the brain’s cortex and elsewhere that are “involved in positive emotional processing and associated with self-identification,” Born said. This activity [...]

Haven’t been Digging lately? It’s okay. Kevin Rose has allegedly been overstating the number of visitors to his site anyway.
Regardless, if you work in PR, marketing, or otherwise simply consume news, it’s time to check out the site and understand what it’s all about if you haven’t already.
In short, Digg is a site [...]

Recently there have been a number of articles making the rounds in the media world that either are entirely about or focus heavily on other peoples’ salaries.
Salaries – for average working Americans – are one of the most private pieces of information that we hold true. In some peoples’ lives, however, salaries are very [...]

Image from Newscopy.
From ZDNet News:
In a victory for bloggers, newsgroup participants and other Web publishers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individual Internet users cannot be held liable for republishing defamatory statements written by others.
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By passing that law, Congress “has comprehensively immunized republication by individual Internet users,” intending “to protect online freedom of [...]

Don’t jump right back into things today without greasing-up your hand-eye coordination with the OfficeMax “Don’t Shoot Your Eye Out” game.

Check it out at www.dontshootyoureyeout.com
Games are becoming a popular way that companies choose to advertise. Why? Consumers are able to have a more interactive experience with the brand. It enables people to [...]

Turkey overcooked? Relatives fighting? Wine from a box?
Escape with some festive links from the blog world.
Some old school ads from Jetpack:

“Happy Thanksgiving, Aristocrats”

“Thank God for Underwear”

From MAKE:

“Make your own turkey“

Seeing that it’s the day before Thanksgiving, we thought we’d continue with some graphic design fun.

Design Notes: The brief called for “a new look” so we decided to “hip up” the Colonel. We went with emo glasses, some hair dye and trimmed up that goatee into a soul patch. Also, the chin needed some chiseling [...]

What would it be like if flags were put through the wrangle of a standard corporate graphic design process?

Well, you might experience something like this.
Via Seth’s blog.