Friday Links: More iPhone 4 drama, social media crack, and some stuff about typewriters
- Meet Brian J. Hogan, the dude who stole the iPhone 4 and sold it Gizmodo.
- Also, a handy flow chart of the whole Gizmodo iPhone 4 drama.
- And, finally, because I have to: Steve Jobs’ kiss off letter to Flash.
- Much like crack, students go through withdrawal when they can’t access social media.
- An interview with Threadless’ VP of Marketing on the eve of their 10th Anniversary.
- The worst of sci-fi/fantasy book covers. The best of the worst? I Sing the Body Electric.
- Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the world for 2010. Once again they forgot me. (and Yahoo collects the five people from the list you’ve never heard of).
- Website teaches kids not to get suckered by ads. This reminds me of the girls I nannied for while I was in college. They begged for some Chips Ahoy cookies of some sort because there was supposed to be a party in each bite. “Uh, there’s no party in my mouth,” one of them said upon tasting the regular old cookie. She was crushed.
- Rock it old school: stickers to make your mac look like a typewriter. I wonder if they can make it so you get that delicious clicking sound and a ding when you reach the end of a line.
- Related to the last: beautiful, beautiful advertisements for Olivetti typewriters.
- Leslie Buck, designer of the iconic NY Greek coffee cup, died.
- The saga of forgotten brands and their logos.
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