Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over each eye, one protruding from each cheek bone and a row of ten across the frill at the back of its head.
"As far as we know it's the most ornate-headed dinosaur ever found, with so many well-developed horns on its head," Sampson told the Guardian.
Scientists have long speculated about the purpose of dinosaurs' horns. In the past, some suspected that beasts like Triceratops used their headgear to fight off predators, as depicted in the prehistoric clash between a fur-bikinied Raquel Welch and a Triceratops in Ray Harryhausen's 1966 movie, One Million Years BC. Many palaeontologists now believe that dinosaurs' horns were often more for sexual display and fighting off other members of the same species, much like rutting deer.
And also why I love the Guardian.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
because its goooood clark
1. You are a prisoner in a croissant factory and you love it.
- Frank O'Hara Fortune Cookie Quotes
- Frank O'Hara Fortune Cookie Quotes
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
anybody still out there?
haven't been to this thing since my last post.
nothing really new to report as far as I'm aware.
Yup, tom is still a fruit.
anyway if you do keep coming back hoping for something, anything, I'm going to start putting stuff back up here, but it would be great if someone else did as well.
ping the comments if you still come.
and, first thing to check out:
nevver.com
makes me smile,sigh,laugh,cringe,get dark,get bouncy, etc. all the time.
Its fucking stellar.
nothing really new to report as far as I'm aware.
Yup, tom is still a fruit.
anyway if you do keep coming back hoping for something, anything, I'm going to start putting stuff back up here, but it would be great if someone else did as well.
ping the comments if you still come.
and, first thing to check out:
nevver.com
makes me smile,sigh,laugh,cringe,get dark,get bouncy, etc. all the time.
Its fucking stellar.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Elegantly Mindblowing
Red families vs. blue families
In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults form families.
Quite a statement. It sums up the how the red- and blue-state families approach marriage, childbirth, and divorce. The red-state approach worked well until our society changed.
New norms arise for this environment, norms geared to prevent premature family formation. The new paradigm prizes responsible childbearing and child-rearing far above the traditional linkage of sex, marriage, and procreation. Instead of emphasizing abstinence until marriage, it enjoins: Don't form a family until after you have finished your education and are equipped for responsibility. In other words, adults form families. Family life marks the end of the transition to adulthood, not the beginning.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100501_5904.php
In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults form families.
Quite a statement. It sums up the how the red- and blue-state families approach marriage, childbirth, and divorce. The red-state approach worked well until our society changed.
New norms arise for this environment, norms geared to prevent premature family formation. The new paradigm prizes responsible childbearing and child-rearing far above the traditional linkage of sex, marriage, and procreation. Instead of emphasizing abstinence until marriage, it enjoins: Don't form a family until after you have finished your education and are equipped for responsibility. In other words, adults form families. Family life marks the end of the transition to adulthood, not the beginning.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100501_5904.php
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
In other news, TOM NAUGHTON NAMED PLANNING DIRECTOR!
He's moved shops again folks (trying to keep pace with Kevin), and is now the proud planning director at Euro on the Dos Equis Business.
Dangerous.
The Greatest Obit. Ever.
Coots Matthews, Cantankerous Hellfighter, Dies at 86
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/us/08matthews.html?src=me&ref=us
Highlights:
He was 86. He had respiratory problems, she said, that might have been related to his breathing carcinogens for 54 years and his penchant for good cigars.
His daughter characterized him as a “barroom brawler” and “hell on wheels,” who “too often let his fists do the talking.”
In 1942, he joined the Army Air Forces and became a tail gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress. His plane was shot down on his first mission, but he went on to fly many more.
After the war, Mr. Matthews opened a beer joint in Houston called Cabin in the Pines. It was fun, but not profitable. So he took a job working in oil field services for Halliburton, an industry giant. After 10 years, he was fired for crashing seven company cars.
Mr. Matthews and Mr. Hansen later stuck to Mr. Adair’s tradition of hiring mainly oil-patch roughnecks and roustabouts. No engineers, thank you.
“An engineer’s not going to put his hands on a fire, but he thinks he’s so much smarter than us,” Mr. Matthews said in an interview with The Washington Post in 1991. “And if they ever get a computer to cap a goddang oil well, I guess I’ll be out of business. But I ain’t shakin’ in my boots over it.”
Mr. Matthews was married four times to two women.
Perhaps Mr. Matthews’s most harrowing experience was when a piece of a crane fell on his leg, pinning him, while a poisonous gas well was spewing, his daughter recalled. Mr. Adair grabbed an ax to whack off Mr. Matthews’s leg. At the last moment, though, Mr. Matthews summoned his strength and jerked his leg free.
He later asked Mr. Adair if he would really have done it. Mr. Adair replied, “A one-legged Coots is better than no Coots at all.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/us/08matthews.html?src=me&ref=us
Highlights:
He was 86. He had respiratory problems, she said, that might have been related to his breathing carcinogens for 54 years and his penchant for good cigars.
His daughter characterized him as a “barroom brawler” and “hell on wheels,” who “too often let his fists do the talking.”
In 1942, he joined the Army Air Forces and became a tail gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress. His plane was shot down on his first mission, but he went on to fly many more.
After the war, Mr. Matthews opened a beer joint in Houston called Cabin in the Pines. It was fun, but not profitable. So he took a job working in oil field services for Halliburton, an industry giant. After 10 years, he was fired for crashing seven company cars.
Mr. Matthews and Mr. Hansen later stuck to Mr. Adair’s tradition of hiring mainly oil-patch roughnecks and roustabouts. No engineers, thank you.
“An engineer’s not going to put his hands on a fire, but he thinks he’s so much smarter than us,” Mr. Matthews said in an interview with The Washington Post in 1991. “And if they ever get a computer to cap a goddang oil well, I guess I’ll be out of business. But I ain’t shakin’ in my boots over it.”
Mr. Matthews was married four times to two women.
Perhaps Mr. Matthews’s most harrowing experience was when a piece of a crane fell on his leg, pinning him, while a poisonous gas well was spewing, his daughter recalled. Mr. Adair grabbed an ax to whack off Mr. Matthews’s leg. At the last moment, though, Mr. Matthews summoned his strength and jerked his leg free.
He later asked Mr. Adair if he would really have done it. Mr. Adair replied, “A one-legged Coots is better than no Coots at all.”
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
and in other news
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/opinion/30brooks.html?src=me&ref=homepage
The best of which is:
The overall impression from this research is that economic and professional success exists on the surface of life, and that they emerge out of interpersonal relationships, which are much deeper and more important.
The second impression is that most of us pay attention to the wrong things. Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives. Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.
All of this is really just saying: Really? A Wall Street sequel? Really?
Fuck that.
The best of which is:
The overall impression from this research is that economic and professional success exists on the surface of life, and that they emerge out of interpersonal relationships, which are much deeper and more important.
The second impression is that most of us pay attention to the wrong things. Most people vastly overestimate the extent to which more money would improve our lives. Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and not enough preparing them to make social decisions. Most governments release a ton of data on economic trends but not enough on trust and other social conditions. In short, modern societies have developed vast institutions oriented around the things that are easy to count, not around the things that matter most. They have an affinity for material concerns and a primordial fear of moral and social ones.
All of this is really just saying: Really? A Wall Street sequel? Really?
Fuck that.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Because he's too modest to post it himself...
and because that headshot is unmissable.
http://pereiraodell.com/?p=2398
http://pereiraodell.com/?p=2398
Joshua Brandau named acting media director
Brandau previously worked as Media Supervisor at Fallon Worldwide were he served as Media Supervisor on Global Holiday Inn Express, Bravo TV and USA Network. Prior to Fallon, he served as the first Communication Alchemist at Venables Bell & Partners on Audi, HBO and Barclays, among others.
Brandau, who joined Pereira & O’Dell’s strategy group in May 2009, oversees all mediums of purchase with an expertise in partnership negotiations. His charter is to create and execute groundbreaking media opportunities that leverage the strengths of the agency’s buying partners as they relate to the agencies varied brands. In this newly-created position, Brandau will report to Scott Kraft, Chief Strategy Officer at Pereira & O’Dell. Buying partners of the agency include Carat and Palisades Media.
“The merging of creative and media is a given. The future lies in the inherent metrics built into many of the new mediums coming out today. Essentially, data is pushing our understanding of how far we can take things creatively instead of reigning it in and that’s a pretty rad place to be”, Brandau commented.
“Joshua has proven to be one of the true innovators in media. He combines his uniquely creative thinking with factual analysis to connect brands with customers and goes to great lengths to ensure that we evaluate and integrate our media partners with the appropriate client,” said Kraft.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
Unrelated statements/questions from my class last nite, a not untypical account of process
Welcome to Cookin' for your Cat, with X
How do you know what a dead human smells like?
How many lava lamps are too many?
Why do companies always have parent companies that have even worse names?
20 drops of lavender in a glass of water should do it.
You are a business poet. That's what you should tell your parents when they ask what you do.
What is that word for a circular plane on which you can jump? Trampoline! Yes. Thank you.
Actions live everywhere. Our job is to collapse them into something consumable.
Human experience is now the only thing you can't forward to a friend.
How do you know what a dead human smells like?
How many lava lamps are too many?
Why do companies always have parent companies that have even worse names?
20 drops of lavender in a glass of water should do it.
You are a business poet. That's what you should tell your parents when they ask what you do.
What is that word for a circular plane on which you can jump? Trampoline! Yes. Thank you.
Actions live everywhere. Our job is to collapse them into something consumable.
Human experience is now the only thing you can't forward to a friend.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
books
Perfume by Suskind
Spoon River Anthology EL. Masters
If on a winters night a traveler by calvino
Invisible Man Ellison (you probably already read this)
Best of by Roald Dahl
extremely close and incredibly loud j.s.f.
Gordy Howe by GH
blood meridian mccarthy
anything by anton chekov
anything by Dostoevsky
anything by tom stoppard (mostly plays)
anything by tom robbins
what the hell else?
Spoon River Anthology EL. Masters
If on a winters night a traveler by calvino
Invisible Man Ellison (you probably already read this)
Best of by Roald Dahl
extremely close and incredibly loud j.s.f.
Gordy Howe by GH
blood meridian mccarthy
anything by anton chekov
anything by Dostoevsky
anything by tom stoppard (mostly plays)
anything by tom robbins
what the hell else?
Monday, January 11, 2010
Latest Lego short film. Best thing we've done so far Lego Click!
Check out wwww.legoclick.com for more on click moments.
Friday, January 08, 2010
QR codes meet AR
Pretty neat, especially this bit- "In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself."
Thought:
This novel solution is already outdated as AR has now achieved the ability to accurately 'see' and identify physical structures.
Thought:
This novel solution is already outdated as AR has now achieved the ability to accurately 'see' and identify physical structures.
N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo.
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