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Friday Links: Advice for marketers, agencies, and designers

Agencies need to think like software companies
It’s October now, time to start thinking Halloween. So I present you Dogs in StarWars costumes
Dear Marketers: YOU don’t decide what goes viral. Any marketer who asks for a viral anything should, well, they should be flicked in the ear. Hard. (and I only say that because I’ve wasted months of my life in meetings with people who wanted us to create something that would “go viral.”
Sometimes the commercials are hard to spot. Brand references as jokes on Jay Leno
MIMA Summit goes gadget happy.
Pancake making robot!
How to effectively respond to design criticism (they don’t suggest flicking people in the ear).
In the interest of fair and balanced linking: 1984 spoof casts Apple as the villain