The money of the US presidential candidate

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Coolhunter launched dear-god.net. I’m only posting this because Coolhunter launched the site. I’m not particularly a fan…

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A great piece by NY Times on Jan Chipchase, anthropologist for Nokia: “His mission is to peer into the lives of other people, accumulating as much knowledge as possible about human behavior so that he can feed helpful bits of information back to the company — to the squads of designers and technologists and marketing people who may never have set foot in a Vietnamese barbershop but who would appreciate it greatly if that barber someday were to buy a Nokia.”

Hear him out:
“Chipchase’s theory that in an increasingly transitory world, the cellphone is becoming the one fixed piece of our identity.”
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“There are a growing number of economists who maintain that cellphones can restructure developing countries in a similar way. Cellphones, after all, have an economizing effect. My “just in time” meeting with Chipchase required little in the way of advance planning and was more efficient than the oft-imperfect practice of designating a specific time and a place to rendezvous.”

his blog

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I’m always amazed by people posting notes on the subway newspapers (Metro and stuff) here in Paris. Well, it seems they do that in every major city uh? Subway Crush launched in order to connect people who might otherwise have some problems to talk to a stranger on the subway.

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Marilyn Monroe sextape story. “An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.”

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Artist of the day is: Datarock