Six-year-old Zachary, who is fighting leukemia, had a wish: ”To meet and become Hellboy.” Fortunately, Ron Perlman was available. (ht Micah Pearson)
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Billboard of the Day: Aretha Swift needs a kidney, but she’s buried deep on the donor transplant list. So she coordinated a fundraiser to buy ad space, and now has 24 billboards plastered around Pennsylvania and in Times Square that send people to AKidneyForAretha.com, where they can find out whether they are a match for Swift.
If Swift’s billboards manage to land her a kidney, expect others desperate for organs to get similarly creative. But at least they’re a major improvement on the billboard recently erected by a Texas mom to get her daughter voted prom queen, and the billboard in Chicago that compared global warming believers to the Unabomber.
[adweek]
Smart idea. We wonder if anyone’s considered a similar idea for the Web. Say, a Kickstarter for organ donations. There has to be a way to encourage more of this.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m598pbLYj71qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Billboard of the Day: Aretha Swift needs a kidney, but she’s buried deep on the donor transplant list. So she coordinated a fundraiser to buy ad space, and now has 24 billboards plastered around Pennsylvania and in Times Square that send people to AKidneyForAretha.com, where they can find out whether they are a match for Swift.
If Swift’s billboards manage to land her a kidney, expect others desperate for organs to get similarly creative. But at least they’re a major improvement on the billboard recently erected by a Texas mom to get her daughter voted prom queen, and the billboard in Chicago that compared global warming believers to the Unabomber.
[adweek]
Smart idea. We wonder if anyone’s considered a similar idea for the Web. Say, a Kickstarter for organ donations. There has to be a way to encourage more of this.
Still watch Saturday morning cartoons? Or, perhaps, The Disney Channel? In case you do, you may soon stop seeing ads for sugary cereals, candy or other unhealthy products. The company is enacting a new policy called the ”Mickey Check” that will only allow for nutritionally-approved products to be sold on their shows, Web sites, or other branded products. On top of this, the company will cut back on sodium in the kids meals served in its theme parks and increase its efforts to promote exercise and healthy eating. Only downside: Due to currently-existing contracts, the ads won’t change over fully until 2015. Hey, Michael Bloomberg: this is how you do it.
Stop everything you’re doing. Fill this out. This is the only bracket that matters this year. Basketball is so 1987. Diplomacy is where it’s at, brah. When you’re done, paste your link here. Here’s some of the SFB staff’s picks: Ernie Smith, Seth Millstein, Scott Craft. What are you waiting for?
@shortformblog colbert should argue for citizen’s united at scotus. that would be a great civics lesson.
— josh sternberg (@joshsternberg) February 18, 2012
Inspired by Josh’s tweet above, a question for you guys: If Stephen Colbert were to argue this case in front of the Supreme Court, what should he say to keep corporate influence in politics alive? He’s been running a comedy SuperPAC for months, so he’d be perfect for this case. What sort of line of argument would you imagine him taking?
The one thing the iPad was missing, finally accounted for: This Kickstarter project, Touchfire, promises tactile keyboard functionality. And wow, does it deliver. The cost is perhaps a little high — $45 for a pre-order — but for people who wish they had a keyboard on the iPad, this might actually be your dream piece of latex.
Livin’ on a prayer? Jon Bon Jovi’s new restaurant will still take care of you: Inspired by the same model Panera’s been using for some of their restaurants, the ’80s hair-metal dude launched his very own pay-what-you want soul food restaurant. Class act. source
WOW. This is awesome. TheNextWeb just put up this mind-blowing content-copying tool called Clipboard, and we totally recommend you grab it. (It’s invite-only, but TNW has a link to an invite site.) This tool is like a combination of copy-paste and taking screenshots. Totally painless, seriously. (Our public profile is over here.) This is what content curation SHOULD be.
Excellent idea. Our mascot Julius will don a black turtleneck all day tomorrow. Let’s make this a thing, guys. We should call it #BlackTurtleneckDay.
Right now, searches are proceeding under the object of preventing terrorist activities. But we’ve got to draw a line. You’ve got to have reasonable cause to touch people’s private parts.Texas State Rep. David Simpson • Discussing his bill to prevent the TSA from intrusively groping people in the name of national security. (Which, as you might know, is kind of a pet issue for us.) The bill actually went somewhere last month — it passed the state’s legislature. However, it stalled in the senate because the state got pushback from the federal government, who threatened to stop flights into Texas if the bill became law. Simpson (a Republican), however, notes that the law doesn’t prevent these searches, but forces a good reason for them to happen: “But what we’re basically saying is, ‘Show me the law that says you can touch my private parts in order to travel and I’ll let you do it.’” This guy deserves a high-five. source (via • follow)
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We totally have to give Apple credit: The conceit around the iTunes portion of the iCloud service, while not exactly what we expected (it’s not Lala 2.0, sadly), manages to pull off an interesting trick — it creates a revenue model from a place where only piracy existed before. By upgrading your music’s quality and making it easily accessible from the cloud, it adds value inexpensively, and gets around a major sticking point for the major labels cleverly. And music industry officials see it as a positive. “It allows for revenue to be made off of pirated music in a way that consumers don’t feel that’s what they’re paying for, and that’s what I find fascinating about it,” noted Jeff Price, the CEO of TuneCore Inc., which helps independent artists sell their music online. Our music anywhere for $25 a year? Sure, we’ll pay that. source
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