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Like Having A Zip For A Mouth Is Scary
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— 13 May 2009 Pete Baran 2 comments

At the heart of Neil Gaiman’s kids book Coraline is one scary proposition. It is one that the whole book, and film is predicated on. That having buttons for eyes is frightening. Which is OK in the context of the film, which turns out like some […]

Deep Thort
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— 13 May 2009 Tom 3 comments

This is a PDF of the cover story on this month’s Research magazine, written by me about the ten current hottest thinkers in consumer behaviour (i.e. those dudes most often mentioned at research conferences).
It has been tested on non-researcher[…]

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the law of comments-thread toxicity (some developments)
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— 13 May 2009 mark sinker 3 comments

alex harrowell of the yorkshire ranter proposes godwin score as a measure of a thread’s usefulness
daniel davies of dsquared digest proposes a better buzzer-causer than h!tler-mention
(useful pointer: the thread that alex and dsquared are actu[…]

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