Talk about innovative! Matt MacInnis, a Nova Scotia native, Harvard grad, and former Apple employee (eight years), has founded a company called Inkling that mades digital textbooks for the iPad. One of the company’s breakthrough offerings, as mentioned in a Bloomberg/Businessweek feature, is called Brooker Biology which features a 3D… more »
Nike’s ‘Write the Future’ Scores Big Time at Cannes
June 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“Write the Future,” the blockbuster Nike spot created out of Wieden & Kennedy, Amsterdam, that imagines the potential future of various soccer stars should they go on to win the World Cup, took home the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. A post by AdAge’s Ann… more »
Giving WSJ’s Henninger a Mulligan…
June 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The headline of the Opinion piece (Of Mulligans and McIlroy’s Miracle: Politics is the mulligan that put us $14.3 trillion in debt.) in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday caught my eye. Eagerly I read looking for the mulligan connection. Alas, towards the end, this paragraph appeared: “Perhaps this is… more »
Stop Apologizing Already: We Admire Your Spirit & Civic Pride…
June 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
San Francisco Chronicle writer, Scott Ostler named Vancouver ‘Fans’ the Knucklehead of the Week. Glad to see that he put single quotation marks around the word fan because the group of troublemakers that took over the streets of downtown Vancouver after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday… more »
HBO’s Treme: Food Focus, Art Imitating Life…
June 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Last Sunday in The New York Times, there was an interesting story about how the focus on food in this season’s HBO show “Treme.” One of the story lines this year follows a New Orleans chef, Janette Desautel, as she tries to make a go of it in New York… more »
