NVC the 020716 Edition

What stimulated our curiosity this week? The return of Kevin Butler, Super Bowl ads, the off lining of Amazon, a reviewer gets busted, and more…

AWSI: Goaded by an Essay on the Secret of Immigrant Genius

We like the fact that The Wall Street Journal provides deeper dive reading on the weekends in the “Review” section. The piece that caught our eye was titled “The Secret of Immigrant Genius.” Genius is a topic we bandy about here. As for highly motivated immigrants, our Frankie is a… more »

Introducing Toll House Tales, a Scripel

[Update] Now available in the Reading Room section, Toll House Tales: All Fired Up, a serialized scripel (part script, part novel). This is the story about three young women (ranging in age from mid-twenties to mid-thirties) who end up spending an Autumn weekend together at an Oregon beach house. For… more »

AWSI: Wisdom from the Sporting Green…

Tuesday’s column by San Francisco Chronicle writer, Scott Ostler, put a smile on our collective faces here at Jedemi. Well — he always has that effect, but this time he provided a nice message that plays well off the sports page (and sports fields, courts, venues, etc.).

AWSI: Talkin’ Logos & Force Friday…

Rolling into the holiday weekend, it struck us as interesting the multitude of stories we saw “trending.” Logo changes: Really? In the same week, both Google and Verizon unveiled new versions of their respective logos and the webosphere went nuts. Okay, maybe that’s too strong. But stories appeared from a… more »