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Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:51:57 +0000

What Touchscreen Hardware Comes After The iPad? – An easy joke, but delivered with a solid visual. [via theolane]

Sound Flyer Defense:

Support Organ Donation – With this excellent tee.

A History Of Obama Feigning Interest In Mundane Things – Undoubtedly the toughest part of the job, and fodder for great captions.

Bob Dylan Recites Mama Said Knock You Out:

Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:56:33 +0000

Way To Go, Apple – “Tron Guy” Jay Maynard, who I had the pleasure of meeting at ROFLcon a couple of years ago, sticks it to Apple with the classic burn “smooth move ex-lax.” Ouch.

Sorry Baboon, I Was Just Trying To Golf

@katieelambert deals a heh with that caption for this photo from a Salon.con slideshow.

When You Dis Locke, You Dis Yourself – Even in 1992, Dr. Dre knew what was to transpire on the Lost island. [via a self heh]

Also On The Subject Of Lost, Foggy Memories – Two of my favorite sketch artists drew their faded recollections of big moments from the show just prior to the new season. Check out the Flickr sets here and here. I’d love t-shirts of some of these. [via Tom]

Mario Paint “Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?”:
(From The Revenge Of The Nerds Soundtrack)

Salute President’s Day – With this Boba Washington succeed.

Letterman And Casey Kasem Count Down The Top Ten Numbers:

Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend.

Dave Coustan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:58:47 +0000

MJ says it’s looking good for you.

Some Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:26:21 +0000

The Tyrant Clock – “The clock syncs up with your cell phone, randomly goes through your contact list, and then calls someone different every three minutes after your intended wake up time. It displays in a large size the name of the person who’s about to get their own wake up call from you. The potential for it to call someone and in some way completely ruin your life is huge.”

South Butt Responds To North Face Lawsuit – It’s not every day when you read a legal brief that includes “…and despite candor being employed in conveying the message that the consuming public is well aware of the difference between a face and a butt…” [via Chris]

This:

Hipster Puppies – It’s both cuter and funnier than you expect.

Architecture Of The Sandwich – “…in which journalists overextend themselves to compare local sandwiches to notable works of architecture.”

Why Are The Low Library Steps Unrunnable – Good, snotty comment exchange on the Columbia blog Bwog about why the famed steps are so hard to traverse. What stayed with me was this anonymous burn: “This is standard art hum fare. congrats bwog for listening in class.”

Tracy Porter’s Interception in Super Bowl 44 As Told By Tecmo Super Bowl:
[via Gregg]

I, Too, Endorse Vanity Barcodes – Rectangles are for losers. These things have been screaming “lil help?” for years. [via Rubicante]

Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:42:13 +0000

*Note: Global heh reserves are surprisingly and perhaps dangerously low. There have only been 10 heh bookmarks added to Delicious.com this week. The preceding is a public service announcement.

All Of American Journalism’s Problems In One Handy Picture:

Spiderman Makes Foreign Keyboards Go “Pok pok pok!” – Physical comedy with poorly-drawn superheroes needs no translation.

Selleck Waterfall Sandwich – A tumblr devoted to photos that contain those three element. [via Fox]

(late addition) If Wes Anderson Directed Spiderman:

[via Brand X by way of gregg]

Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:56:05 +0000

“Mr. Macintosh” – Some have speculated that the choice of iPad as the name for the new slatelet may be comparable to an obsession Steve Jobs had years ago with an animated guy who would pop out of your Apple menus at random. [via Mrgan]

You Play To Win The Game – Snippets from/like the Coors NFL coach ads masterfully pulled together into a remix, with backing track:
[via gregg]

Support Our () Troops – Heh.

Tweet Of The Heh – This week, from the Cookie Monster. Related heh: Oscar The Grouch was originally orange.

Rob’s CES Flyer Scans – Just as it sounds, scans from the stuff handed out at CES in a bygone era.

Food Network Caption Humor:

Content Strategy Talk At WordCamp Atlanta

Dave Coustan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:28:17 +0000

Here’s the material I presented to lead a WordCamp Atlanta discussion sarcastically titled “Content Strategy: Killing Time Between Redesigns.” I didn’t go through everything, or even most of what the field entails, but instead (a)presented my view of why it’s important based on what’s happening inside and outside of non-media companies today, and (b)provided some examples and footholds grounded in actual projects to show at the granular level how it can come into play.

I had asked several friends and colleagues in the industry for their perspectives (and am grateful to Rafi, Kristen, Jeff, Anna, Lisa, Tom, and Agent 3Z) but only worked a few thoughts from them into the talk directly. I also didn’t get a chance to talk about my heh-harvesting experiences at EarthLink and here over the past few years, which is something I want to reflect on. So ideally I’ll figure out how to use all of that in something with a slightly different focus.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the session, asked questions, and contributed thoughts. Feel free to continue the conversation here, on Twitter, via my current obsession – Tumblr questions, etc.

Content Strategy: Killing Time Between Redesigns

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P.S. Extra special thanks to the organizers @sheatsb and@tessa for pulling together a fantastic event!

Friday Heh

Dave Coustan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:31:58 +0000

Something About This Guy And His Sweet Tea – According to the notes it’s either ” A FAILED ATTEMPT AT REGIONAL CULTURE-LATCHING,” “Some kind of sad, failed Olympics mascot?” or “Saturday.”

CryingWife.com – A couple-created movie review site that chronicles her constantly breaking down in tears at the end of just about every movie they see. Her take on Star Wars is a good place to start.

Ice Cube(s)

People Talking On Bananas, Or My New Favorite Blog – Pure joy, on the daily.

Wi-Fi For Passive Aggressives – Heh.

The Making Of Avatar: The Bootleg – The comments start strong with “…please either go see the damn thing or stop posting stuff with self-justifications. There’s a billion other blogs out there doing the irrational Avatar-hate thing.” [via Gregg]:

Invaluable Advice For Atlantans Today –

(update)All Night Long – Late at night, on The Phoenix Suns team bus…(hint: let the music playon playon playon). [via the_real_nash by way of Erik]

All In The Game

Dave Coustan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:38:53 +0000

I just knew I wasn’t the only one who thinks this way:

A brief thought on this exchange over at Extraface Marks.

A Gem From My 2009 To Reads

Dave Coustan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:47:55 +0000

When an article looks promising but I don’t have the time, attention, focus, or patience to read it, I generally stick it in my to read pile on Delicious.com. I filed away what turned out (just today) to be a real gem in April of this year – from Gary Wolf on the blog Quantified Self and titled Measuring Mood – Current Research And New Ideas. It provides a thumbnail sketch of the recent scholarly history of the theory of emotions, and points to a few approaches that show promise including happy factor. Mood tracking and the ability to measure and share data about levels of individual happiness is a topic that seems to pop up in brainstorms all the time, and is often falsely assumed to be as an easy and straightforward thing to implement.

Read, don’t skim Gary’s article if you’re interested in finding out more about the tension between two prevailing approaches at modeling emotion — one that makes happiness and sadness polar opposites, and one that allows them to coexist at the same time — and how Lisa Feldman Barrett’s approach helped to lead the discussion in a productive direction.