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And now for something completely different: Invisible Marketing makes microloans through Kiva

Invisible Marketing is now promoting global entrepreneurship through Kiva. (“Loans that change lives.”)
Through Kiva, we’re making microloans to small businesses throughout the world, especially woman-owned businesses in Latin America. Check out our lender page to see who we support.
Our motivations and actions defy every attempt at prediction, as any honest economist will admit. But people [...]

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Toyota should fire their PR team.

In house, agency of record, whoever it is hasn’t done their homework in responding to the crisis with facts and data.
Here’s a useful table of US federal data on auto acceleration complaints similar to those from which Toyota is now being smeared in the popular imagination (gathered by National Public Radio (NPR) in the [...]

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Fun Rube Goldberg machine video from OK Go: “This too shall pass”

Their previous video went viral on youtube.
They’ve restructured their approach to their music and the market. But someone still talked them into doing this great Rube Goldberg contraption as an alternative video to their new release.
I think they are interesting artists. Hope it goes well for them.
Here’s BoingBoing’s take on the video.
Here’s [...]

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Happy Independence Day!

From Abigail Adams (1744 – 1818), wife of John Adams (one of the American revolutionary founders).
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
in a letter to her husband, 1774
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be [...]

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Unpaid announcement: bone marrow

On behalf of a friend of a friend –

Karen Mellow Stock was diagnosed in December 2008 with lymphoma, a life threatening disease. Karen’s only chance at a cure is through a bone marrow transplant from a genetically matched donor.

Finding a donor is critical to her survival. Imagine what you [...]

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Remember the Alamo!

(Fall of the Alamo: March 6, 1836.)
“You may all go to Hell and I will go to Texas.” – Davy Crockett
Happy anniversary.

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