links for 2008-07-20

„I’d somehow failed to consider that stock pictures could be made, not just found.”

Loud music may have had a negative effect on social interaction in the bar, so that patrons drank more because they talked less.

„Understand, we were not just selling motorized sticks. We were also teaching women how to never be submissive. A woman with a well-stocked toy drawer isn’t dependent on anyone and is unlikely to hurl herself at a lowlife just for nooky.”

I don’t know of any designer, any brand, that is really global in its thinking. It may be global in its reach, but in terms of global in its thinking, that remains ahead of us.