Daily Archives: October 29, 2007

At the corner of Walk and Dont Walk

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

Funny ideas at the In-N-Out Burger in Venice Beach.

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Cookie Crumbles

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com Mari and Leslie are finalists in the stopbadware.org Cookie Crumbles Contest! It’s not practical for them to slide over six time zones from FNO France to be there in DC this Friday, so I’ve consented to represent them and their work at the Federal Trade Commission workshop [...]

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Marvelous Maeve

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 29, 2007

Maeve, on her eponymous blog Meadhbh Maonaigh, has posted a video animation of Jonathan Coulton’s song, “Creepy Doll.” The animation is eerily apropos, and maximally seasonal of course, but the Coulton lyrics are also uncomfortably evocative of a middle class experience and laden with symbolism (see Richard Corelli for more on this, especially perhaps the [...]

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