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[Nov. 7th, 2009|08:07 am] |
I wonder what the gender breakdown on smartphones is. I feel as though the Droid is being marketed towards men, for the most part. Maybe just people who like tech, who might have once shopped at Hot Topic. With the heavy metal umlaut and horizontally-stretched font, it reminds me of men's razor imagery.
Speaking of which, there's no way that I can see to get from Gillette's home page to the stuff they're marketing towards women.
Gillette's main page (men)
Gillette's Venus page (women)
Their main page looks like a sports lineup. It's all flash, although they appear to have actually used Flash's right-click options to be useful.
Their Venus page looks like an actual navigable webpage...
Maybe, if you're looking to these for marketing tips, using anything with a clean font and white background feels dangerous. If you're saying you're better than the iPhone, you don't want to be seen imitating Apple's branding styles. |
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| perspective |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:10 pm] |
“Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I recieved the news, Malia walked in and said, “Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo’s birthday.” And then Sasha added, “Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.” So, it’s good to have kids to keep things in perspective."
Obama, on winning the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| We're moving! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|03:48 pm] |
Greetings!
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) underwatercolor and I are moving to the Boston area.
We will be joining the household of 126 Something with desiringsubject, imvfd, veek, barodar, and queenofhalves. We will be moving in over the next month.
I will be working at my current job until November 20th. I will also be polishing my resume and looking for work with a reasonable commute.
I'm feeling overwhelmed by details at the moment, but thinking about where I'm going is a great source of joy. |
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| Green, autumn edition |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|02:21 pm] |
The next time you're outside, find something alive, growing, green. Burn it into your eyes and your mind and your memory. Pay no attention to those flashy reds and oranges, yellow and drying leftover leaves, brown crisp crunching underfoot, greying sodden skies above, clear blues that whisper cold on your blushing cheeks, nose, ears.
Find something green. Touch it, smell it, hold it next to your skin and remember it. Winter is coming.
Toes in grass, warm in sun, dappled through waving canopy, call it ecstasy, sensual, sexual? sensational. (oh, fanatical, criminal...) liminal?
Sometimes the same ideas come from different sources to the same end. As two people independently recommended the movie The Fall to me, two people also independently made sure I knew the word haptic. |
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| shmorning! |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|09:07 am] |
88.3 The Saint rocked my socks this morning:
Thriller
Funky Music
Short People (what a strange song! I don't think I'd heard it before.)
the Time Warp (oh hell yes!)
Also in today's links, One Man's Quest to Save GeoCities. Thanks to TrevorSayre for the link.
whooo coffee...
Happy Friday! |
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| two things |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|01:04 pm] |
1. Clean bill of health! Yay!
2. I would like to purchase three tickets to the matinée of The Big Broadcast in Somerville, but I don't want to pay the service fees, and I can't walk there from my house in minutes like most of you. Would anyone be up for getting tickets for me, and having me pay them back? |
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| wikipedia does not have a "favorites" button |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
The Anna Karenina principle can be summed up as
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
It applies to many many things, and I've used it several times in the past few months, but was having trouble finding the source of the idea.
Thanks to motive_nuance for knowing what I'm talking about, and providing proof. |
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