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“[I]t is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.” –Benjamin Franklin

Carlton Draught’s Big Beer Ad. Great execution on a WOM marketing campaign. I’d try Carlton today based on this effort. (Hat-tip to Scoble)

I sat in the Admiral’s Club at O’hare airport for 4+ hours today… rediculous how a little rain can totally screw up the air traffic to Texas for that long, but anyways… I was quite impressed by the paper quality of the New York Times here in Chicago… Amazing paper quality, and I used to [...]

Just taking the opportunity to point out one of my favorite italian restaurants in Houston, Texas (I’m going to eat lunch there next week) to the good folks out there on the internet. Birraporetti’s used to be a place my dad took my kid brother and I when we were really young to have Shirley [...]

This past weekend, I decided I needed to clean up my Powerbook hard drive. I was down to 500 MBs of space free on the machine when I booted it up… this meant that after regular usage for a day or two, I was out of space… I think because of how Mac OS X [...]

Gaspedal has posted some great tips for tradeshow attendees. Enjoy.

Dave Hamilton posted an interesting comment on Branding online with this memorable quote: “Lose sight of branding, and you lose that customer.” Read his entry for the whole story behind that quote. Good post Dave.

I was reading Iceberg by Clive Cussler last night, and came across a new word, so I looked it up today: bon vivant means “A person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink.” Good word that I’ll have to use more often in the future: “My best friend Josh could be [...]