Interesting article tying targets, tactics and past terrorist acts to what happened in Mumbai and Al Qaeda

Authencity and credibility are two important words in today's marketing world. Again, I don't think Mac fans will see much of a problem here, but Apple already seen some of their ads pulled out (from the US in August and from England this month, for blatanly lying to the customer.

Proof:

Apple's "Unslow" 3G iPhone commercial pretends to demonstrated the performance of the device over the 3G network. To put it to the test, I took my own 3G iPhone to the heart of AT&T's coverage area in MA (Boylston St. in Boston just across the street from Apple's flagship store).

The video shows a side by side performance comparison running through an identical set of actions.

just in time for Christmas!

First-hand accounts of the deadly Mumbai attacks are pouring in on Twitter, Flickr, and other social media.

One of the Mumbai attacks

“Moteru” (or “mote” for short) generally means “attractive” (as in, to the opposite sex) in Japanese Aimed at 20-somethings, the site lists jobs in categories such as beauty, medical care, apparel, and cafes. These are apparently all safe jobs that would not detract from a young woman’s desirability. The site, launched at the end of October, is also accessible from the mobile web and includes an e-commerce component in the form of the “Mote Shop,” which promises to rid you of your hard-earned “mote yen” with items like aroma therapy oils (needed to de-stress from work, of course).

While the opening of an H&M in the center of Harajuku itself may not signify the end of the party, it is cause for some concern. Philomena Keet, a British anthropologist and the author of "The Tokyo Look Book," points out, "Harajuku has a strong mix of very expensive high fashion and very cheap secondhand shops, so the area as a whole can adapt and thrive in changing economic climates. The arrival of 'budget high fashion' chain H&M has therefore been very timely, but if the trend of opening foreign high-street chains continues then the independent boutiques and edgy atmosphere could be set to suffer."

The attacks have taken a tragic toll on the city's top police brass: The high-profile chief of the anti-terror squad Hemant Karkare was killed; Mumbai's additional commissioner of police (east) Ashok Kamte was gunned down outside the Metro; and celebrated encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar was also killed

I just hoped everybody is allright..

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Location Two » New York, NY

We asked the same question and it took us somewhere new. Gone were the lazy days of summer. A cool breeze swept the streets with leaves under foot and the familiar hustle of the city…welcome to autumn in New York.

It’s a simple question. And the answers can lead us anywhere.

So go ahead, ask yourself…

New locations (and questions) coming soon.

'Batman RIP' will see "the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman", according to Grant Morrison.

There are rumours that Batman will suffer a gruesome end when his sidekick Robin goes over to "the dark side" and destroys him in a terrible betrayal.

That's -so- my neighborhood. Crazy insight… ;P

It's that time of year again, when the thermometer drops below 40, and suddenly the streets fill not just with dry leaves and black ice but urban guys suddenly transformed into lumberjacks. The beards grow, the sweaters come out, and seemingly overnight, the cities are crammed with scrawny Hemingways. You know what I'm talking about: the Metrognome.

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cities organized by feelings

Lars G. Nordstrom isn't the only CEO being criticized these days for earning too much money during the world financial crisis. But he may be one of the few who has reacted by deciding to work for free.

Since becoming head of the Swedish postal service in July, Nordstrom has been paid 900,000 kronor ($110,000) a month. And that is on top of the millions he receives in a retirement package from his previous job as chief executive officer of the banking group Nordea AB.

Only Malcolm Gladwell could bring Fleetwood Mac into the design discussion and make wonderful sense. In his enlightening talk about innovation and misconceptions about what it takes to become a success, Gladwell uses this unlikely metaphor for creative synthesis in an entertaining entrée into the concepts of his forthcoming book, Outliers. Genius and creativity don’t necessarily spring forth unbidden, he says; they require time and support to experiment, to try and even fail. During this time of economic crisis and eventual renewal, he hopes that the design community will be able to “rediscover the true roots of creativity and innovation.”

Lions + proposes a bunch of really cool stuff, such as a video of a CP+B seminar & the 2008 S&S new directors' showcase.

As part of their "Get a World View" campaign, The Economist distributed branded pizza boxes through 20 pizzerias in the Greater Philadelphia area. Each box displays one of a handful of pie charts that show a statistic related to world food distribution, with an emphasis on those used in pizza production. They list things like global wheat consumption, world cheese imports and arable crop land.

Mutinous soldiers fought their way into the fortified residence of Guinea-Bissau's president, launching a three-hour gunbattle with his guards as the leader and his family hid elsewhere in the building, a top official said.

The soldiers attacked President Joao Bernardo Vieira's home shortly after midnight, killing at least one of his guards and injuring several others before security forces were able to push them back, Interior Minister Cipriano Cassama said.

another reason for me to stay messy ….
"Littered desk in study belonging to Albert Einstein, April 1955"

Get access to the recipe of the #1 restaurant in the US. No kidding.

Information design video clip. There's so many stuff picture there, I don't know where to begin …

That's, I don't know. The word .. it's not disturbing … it's not funny … I think there's no word to quite describe this …
"a woman performs fellatio on a microphone during the opening of "aint no sorry" at museum of modern art warsaw, by wojciech kosma"

"After a thought starter from the PSFK team, Allison Mooney (PSFK/Mobile Behavior) led a discussion with Kevin Slavin (area/code), Alistair Fulton (Deloitte), Florian Peter (CScout) and Steve Roberts (Shoptext) discussed what Good Ideas we might see in the mobile space in 2009."

Everybody LOVES Improv Everywhere

"For our latest mission, 20 Improv Everywhere agents personally welcomed home total strangers at JFK airport. Grabbing first and last names from car driver signs, we greeted strangers with personalized posters, flowers, balloons, and a 10-foot wide banner reading, “Welcome Back."

In the 1950s, the Shanghai Watch Company manufactured watches worn by China’s most eminent leaders including Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Recognizing the unique heritage of this Chinese brand, PSFK friends Jellymon and W+K Shanghai approached the Shanghai Watch Company to produce 5 new designs with a distinctive modern Chinese flavor.

There will be one hundred watches of each design produced and are available in selected stores around the world, including Colette in Paris, Kidrobot in New York and The Source in Shanghai.

Watches: from communism to capitalism. (could be replace by China as well…)

Follow up with ShotCode

ShotCode is a mobile tagging technology that allows you to create instant connections from any offline product (for example a newspaper) to all online locations (for example an eCommerce location).

The technology works much like a personal mobile barcode scanner: Your customers scan ShotCodes (our barcodes) using their camera mobile phones and they are instantly connected to your mobile websites.

The bigger criticism of Gladwell is not that he’s unoriginal but that he’s unserious—that he takes substantive academic work and applies it to frivolous things (epidemiology and Hush Puppies, anyone?). While such an approach may endear him to business elites, it often infuriates cultural and political ones. Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, has said, “What Gladwell is marketing is nothing but marketing—the marketer’s view of the world. But that view of the world is, I’m afraid, idiotic.” The judge and legal scholar Richard Posner, in a scathing review of Blink for TNR, complained that it was “written like a book intended for people who do not read books.” Meanwhile, Carlin Romano, the influential literary critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, used his review of Blink to give its author a hazing and an ultimatum: “Gladwell, one fears, has come to his own tipping point, or—to be fuddy-duddy—fork in the road. This way, guru. That way, serious writer.”

Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new question: what separates extraordinary and average people? Discussing findings from his much-anticipated book "Outliers," Gladwell details how we're squandering human potential everywhere from the football field to the classroom - and what we can do to change it.

Great great great great great great great…

A piece on the "private" social networks.

"A Small World helped kick off the “invitation-only” trend by restricting new membership to those invited by current members. But sometimes an invitation just isn’t enough. Gaining entry into this new generation of private online world can involve an intimidating process of review, such as career-orientated sites bluechipexpert.com and doostang.com, where aspiring members must submit their resumes to be considered for acceptance. Other sites are blatantly and proudly parochial, such as aprivateclub.com, which is only for New Yorkers in-the-know. "

… failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life