Tag Archives: The Office

Friday Links: App Store transparency, Miracle Whip, and more

• Apple adds some transparency to App Store approvals
• An uncanny similarity between The Office and Mad Men. If you’re a fan of these shows this is a must read. Come on, you always though Pam and Peggy Olsen had a strange resemblance to each other (also, you should watch Roger Sterling’s one liners when you have a minute).
• Colbert vs. Miracle Whip. Ya gotta give to hearty thumbs up for bold, sassy advertising like this. Props to the copywriters on this one (also see this follow-up).
• 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
• A short history of spelling things wrong on the Internet.
• An illustrated guide to seven ways to kill an idea.
• If you’re having a rough day and need to something to make you feel good about yourself, take comfort in the fact that you’re not (at least I hope you’re not) One of the five most common Facebook Fails.
• Tim Burton at the MoMA spot.

Friday Links: *Insert witty Kanye joke here*

• For Sale: Gene Roddenberry’s Original 1984 Macintosh
• Six fonts that piss people off.
• Interesting Play-Doh ads
• Things not to do while robbing a house: Use their computer to login to Facebook and forget to log out.
• Fighting dirty in Scrabble
• Yearbook Yourself iPhone App
• Best meme of the week: Book titles if they were written today.
• Holy buckets do I want this: Who killed Toby? Play The Office version of Clue to find out.
• A collection of 40 inspiring ambigrams. I didn’t know what one was either until I clicked. Pretty clever logos abound.
• 33 most deadly substances on Earth

And here are two links from Mark Malmberg:

• Minneapolis-based Pocket Hercules was recently named Advertising Age’s Small Agency of the Year for the Midwest. Runner-up was another local shop, Mono. (Dig their coolly minimalist Web sites, too.) As AdAge’s Jeremy Mullman notes, “With Pocket Hercules, Mono is evidence that Minneapolis is the new bastion of Midwest creativity.” See ya, Chicago.
• This one isn’t for the squeamish. Easy on the antiseptic, about small local agencies willing to take risks.