When you first start planning a big trip, step one will likely happen at the Google search bar. Step two might be clicking onto the images of your target destination. The North Face, in a campaign with agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made, took advantage of this consumer behavior to keep its name top of mind …
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How a Racoon became an Aardvark
“Sort of as a joke, I slipped in the ‘also known as the Brazilian aardvark’ [at the Wikipedia entry of the coati] and then forgot about it for awhile.” When Breves made the change, he assumed that someone would catch the lack of citation and flag his edit for removal. Over time, though, something strange …
Listen to Wikipedia
Bells are additions, strings are subtractions. There’s something reassuring about knowing that every user makes a noise, every edit has a voice in the roar. (Green circles are anonymous edits and purple circles are bots. White circles are brought to you by Registered Users Like You.) Quit relaxing as it turns out. Uses Websockets, the …
Where citations come from
Also see South Park’s S15E13 episode where the boys get taped with statements about a History Channel show they saw, which is then used in the follow-up of that show as actual fact. Citogenesis → Here on bram.us I have this post named “My lighter”. It contains a quote from a song by The Streets …