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If you magically traveled back to Shakespeare's time, you'd find that people were no less potty-mouthed than they are today; they swore just as often, except they used some different (but no less crude) words. These days, some of the legendary old-time crudities have started to feel neglected. Won't you help them out? 
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As it turns out, there are a ton of studies that explore the influence of specific types of music as they relate to your productivity levels. To help you find just the right mix, we've sourced and curated seven Spotify playlists designed with specific studies in mind. Whether you're into Mozart or Chance The Rapper, we're confident that there's something on this list that will do the trick....
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Uncover science-backed office music playlists designed to help you be more productive at work.
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Seems we've consumed way too much sweets during Easter and other holidays. Also on the bottom about the Easter Date Calendar for the next 80 years, has anyone tried to work out the equation ? Give it a go!
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Fun Easter Facts.
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As part of a tasty new tourism campaign, ad agency Lapiz just made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs a reality. But instead of soup and juice, this futuristic cloud rains something altogether more buzzy—tequila. Lapiz, a unit of Leo Burnett, used ultrasonic humidifiers to vibrate tequila at a frequency that actually turned it into visible mist. This mist was then condensed into liquid form, which fell as raindrops. All of this happened as a special exhibit in Berlin, Germany, during the rainiest month of the year—to promote Mexico as a vacation destination....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Sunny with a chance of tequila - new Mexican tourism campaign from Lapiz takes fun weather to dreary Germany.
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Create comics, cartoons and memes online. Share your creations on Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Free online cartoon maker and comic creator. Via Nik Peachey
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun tool for creative content marketing.
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
October 24, 2016 8:34 AM
Love this new Comic-Cartoon Creator. Thanks, Nic Peachey
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There's a lot of study about how the prevalence of emojis are changing the way we communicate. Linguists debate what we gain versus what we lose when we express sadness by texting a crying face rather than saying, "I'll miss you." But emojis aren't just about communication—they can be art, too.
That's the premise of a fun little campaign from Cantor Fine Art gallery in Hollywood, anyway, which for the past couple of weeks has been using its Instagram account to share emoji-fied versions of the world's greatest artists and their work—from Magritte's Son of Man to Vincent van Gogh to Georgia O'Keeffe's skulls to Keith Haring to Jackson Pollack. The breadth of the project is a big part of the fun (Damien Hirst works surprisingly well as an emoji!), but the campaign's faithfulness to both the artists and the emojis is what really elevates the project.
Emojis are a part of our culture and how we communicate now, for better or for worse, and while seeing a cute lil' Andy Warhol in sunglasses sipping from his can of Campbell's Soup is a fun gag, it does also raise the question of what a pop culture-obsessed figure like Warhol would make of this contemporary visual language. That's a fair bit of heavy lifting for a quirky campaign intended to draw attention to a fine art gallery in Los Angeles whose current show is called "Please Touch the Art," and it's the least pretentious way possible to get us thinking in those terms....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Now this is a fun campaign from Cantor Fine Art Gallery in Hollywood.
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Have you ever heard an acronym but you didn't know what it meant? It can really throw you off your game in a conversation. I usually try to write it down discreetly or, if I have a laptop, look it up online without anyone seeing. But industry-specific acronyms can have multiple meanings, and sometimes Wikipedia doesn't do them justice. That's why we curated 34 of the most common marketing acronyms and 41 of the most common business acronyms -- and put them into an epic glossary you can skim, study, or bookmark and save for later...
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Check out these 75 common marketing acronyms and abbreviations you can skim, study, or bookmark to save for later.
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Without fail, I almost always forget to put up an out-of-office email message when I'm headed out for vacation. It's one of those things I remember just as I'm shutting down, or sometimes even after I've already left. (Heh, sorry guys.) Since I usually throw them up in a hurry, I don't take a lot of time to get creative. However, I remembered to put up my OOO message early this time around -- so I decided to do some Googling for funny, clever, and snarky messages people have used in the past. Here are some of the gems I found....
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Summer fun! Check out some funny autoreplies to use in your next out-of-office email message.
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The smartphone that is probably within arm’s reach of you now has more computing power than the Apollo missions to the moon. No, really.
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My iPhone 4 has more computing power than what was used on the Apollo mission? This is a thought-provoking infographic.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
May 29, 2016 5:25 PM
My iPhone 4 has more computing power than what was used on the Apollo mission? This is a thought-provoking infographic.
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That dog won't hunt, but it will rack up debt via chew-toy impulse buys. Canada's Zulu Alpha Kilo is well known for elaborate self-promotions, like its recently revamped agency website poking fun at agency websites. But the shop does have real clients,...
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Pure Friday fun and creativity.
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Elementary school finger painting teaches us that there are three primary colors—red, yellow and blue—that combine to make three secondary colors—orange, green and purple—and (plus or minus some black and white paint) every other color imaginable. That’s six basic colors. But there are seven colors in the rainbow, our most important color symbol. So, basically, purple is subdivided into purple and more-blue-ish-purple. Who the bananas made that decision?!? And why? The short answers: Isaac Newton. And Ancient Greek philosophy. Um, what?...
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There are six basic colors, but 7 colors in the rainbow. Who the bananas made that decision?!? And what does it have to do with Greece, math and astronomy? Inquiring minds like yours would want to know! :-). Recommended reading for fun.
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Although the Oxford English Dictionary editors get the final say, they actually look to us to dictate whether a word should be added. In other words, we have no one but ourselves to blame for all the weird words that make the cut every year. But we can at least share the blame with technology. None of us would be saying "srsly" if we hadn't felt the urge to shorten words for text messages and emails. We wouldn't be voting anyone off the island if not for the television series Survivor. And, perhaps most importantly, there would be no need for the word "meatspace" without the existence of the virtual world. (One could argue there is still no need.) Want to see what weird words were added to the OED thanks to internet slang and technology? Read on....
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Screenagers? Meatspace? Check out this list of the weirdest words added to the dictionary thanks to internet slang and technology.
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Whether you’re tired of hearing newfangled phrases in discussions about tech or are still recovering from Post Silicon Valley Move Stress Disorder , there’s now a ready reckoner to sort you out.Silicon Valley Dictionary serves up nearly 200 (and counting) terms commonly used in the tech world, along with a smattering of them from ‘Silicon Valley’, an HBO comedy that presents a wry take on startups. Some of my favorites are:Gluttonygramming: Programming and working at a slower pace to purposely get more food out of the company....
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Get your words worth. I liked " Ramen profitable."
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Anyone responsible for writing content headlines understands the challenge of optimizing for clicks while maintaining message clarity. Put your knowledge of effective headline development to the test below. Note, the questions are based on data from Buzzsumo’s survey of 100 million headlines published over a three-month period (available at wsm.co/headlinebuzz).
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Can you pass this BuzzSumo headline test? Not as easy as it looks.
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Lindsay Hoyt's curator insight,
June 26, 2017 11:27 PM
History.com creates a great connection between economics and holidays to share in the classroom. It brings the numbers to life.
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It's no secret that most of the money you see in movies or music videos is fake, but what might surprise you is that most of it comes from one source. Rich "RJ" Rappaport started RJR Props nine years ago as a full-service prop shop, but his specialty is fake cash.
As you can imagine, making fake money is a highly regulated endeavor that is closely watched by federal authorities, so Rappaport has to be extra careful to ensure his fakes never make it into circulation. Still, when your prop money is the go-to for rap videos and has been featured in over 175 films and shows, we think it's safe to say that your cash is king...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Sort of a fake it till you make it story ;-)
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For the last six years of my life, I have had teachers, lecturers and tutors drill into my brain: Wikipedia is not an acceptable source. And for six whole years I have steered clear of the tomes of knowledge Wikipedia offers me. No longer. Wikipedia has a knack for distracting me from the anxieties of daily life, and there is no better distraction than its carefully curated lists. So, for your consideration, here are the nine best lists on Wikipedia right now....
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Got a minute? Got sixty? Lists are the lifeblood of Wikipedia's content black hole. Here are nine cherry-picked lists of random, ridiculous facts to begin your binge-learning. Beware the lists of Wikipedia!
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Excitement is building for the final of the three US Presidential debates.
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New secret Republican polls could pave the way to a new last-minute political strategy and potential campaign comeback story of the century.
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Would the first successful manned moon landing have run as smoothly as it did if mission control wasn't properly stocked with strong coffee? Probably not, claims a new campaign for the Colombia Coffee Grower's Federation. The space-themed campaign, which launches on the 47th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, suggests that in every big moment in the world's history, something special was brewing, and that something was probably a cup of Colombian coffee taste-tested, handpicked and inspected to ensure its greatness. Or it was all thanks to Francis—the guy who makes sure break room No. 3 is always stocked with the delicious coffee. You go, Francis!...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Advertising fun!
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If you’re on a business trip to the city of Lausanne in Switzerland, you might have to think twice about drinking an evening beer on your company’s tab in one of the city’s bars. Eyebrows would certainly be raised in accounting at a 33cl beer that costs a whopping $17.60. Situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, the city has the highest beer prices in the world, according to a ranking released by GoEuro. The website compared the price of local and imported draught beer in hotel bars worldwide to compile their ranking. If you find yourself on a business trip to Lausanne, it might be better to visit one of the city’s supermarkets where a bottle of beer costs only $1.42 on average by comparison.Hong Kong also charges extortionate prices for alcoholic drinks in bars with a 33cl beer coming in at just over $11 on average. Paris and Zürich follow with beer prices in bars averaging $10.08 and $10.03 respectively. New York is the only US city to make the top 10 of GoEuro’s ranking with a 33cl beer in a bar costing $9.22 on average. Rome and Tel Aviv round off the ten costliest places to drink beer worldwide with both charging just over $9 on average. There is a massive disparity with the cheapest cities for beer drinkers, the majority of which can be found in Eastern Europe. Bratislava’s bars charge a mere $2.80 on average for a 33cl with Kiev and Cape Town coming second and third for the world’s most affordable brews.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This chart shows the average price of a 33cl beer in a bar in 2016. Avoid Switzerland - $17.60 beer?
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
July 6, 2016 11:36 AM
This chart shows the average price of a 33cl beer in a bar in 2016. Avoid Switzerland - $17.60 beer?
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Gone are the days where a humorous picture or phrase will get your site's 404 page noticed. In a version of the Internet where GIFs are the new text and where videos are the new photos, it's going to take a lot more than a witty phrase to stand out amongst the crowd....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Fun animated 404 pages.
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In the infancy of the drone era, we’re still only certain about a handful of specific use cases. Choreographed drone dancing probably wasn’t one of them, unless you’re with MicroAd, the company that created this artful waltz of LED-laden drones in front of Mt. Fuji.
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The creativity, innovation and nothingness of drones dancing at Mount Fuji.
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This is one tough TV quiz. If you get 100%, you're a superstar or spending too much time with the remote.
Rohini Mundhada's curator insight,
April 4, 2016 2:19 AM
This is one tough TV quiz. If you get 100%, you're a superstar or spending too much time with the remote.
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Just when you think the Bad Lip Reading videos couldn’t get any funnier, along comes this treatment of the recent Republican presidential primary debate. In this version, the candidates tackle the issues that really matter, as the scurrilous accusations fly. And they make some crazy pledges to the voters. While at least one contender’s nerves seem to get the better of him. In an innovative tweak to the debate format, the candidates get to make their pitches through the medium of song, just as the Founding Fathers surely intended.…while throwing some funky moves....
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Politics as it should be from Bad Lip Reading. Your Friday Funnies! Recommended viewing! 10/10
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Typography, like any expertise, can only be truly mastered with practice – but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring! What better way to spiff up your design skills than with some fun online games? We’ve compiled a collection of entertaining typography games sure to test your knowledge. Pair typefaces at rapid speed, identify fonts in the blink of an eye, improve your kerning and ragging, and learn the history behind some of your favorite typefaces.Best of all? Nearly all these games are free to play!...
Jeff Domansky's insight:
A fun collection of entertaining typography games sure to test your knowledge in font styles, typefaces, kerning and design history. Recommended playing for creatives! 10/10
Dan Hoffman's curator insight,
August 10, 2015 12:08 AM
A fun collection of entertaining typography games sure to test your knowledge in font styles, typefaces, kerning and design history. Recommended playing for creatives! 10/10 |
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