Someone must have done really good research to come to a profound conclusion like that. Finally, a statistic that is true to a 100 percent and can’t be argued at all. Go wako wako Pac Man style.

[via TUAW]

A collective experiment in brand perception.

Lately, philsblogging has spent quite some time dealing with brands and how we interact with them. If you haven’t read Where We Encounter Brands by now, this is now highly recommended. As a follow-up story (there are more to come, that’s what I can say for now), I point at a research program that describes the offered service with the following words - and I quote now:  ”A collective experiment in brand perception.” Brandtags.net digs deep in our (collective) minds to answer one question. What associations is the public reflection of world brands made of?

This is what a flickr search for “collective brand” results in · Ever wondered what the public reflection of the Coke brand looks like? · photo by Ende

It’s time to face the truth… Are you abusing lol? You are most likely to be one of the internet generation LOL Abusers according to a statistic by the National Acronym Monitoring Board of Linguistic Anomalies. Research could reveal a devastating misusage of lol since people actually don’t laugh out loud whenever they add lol in a chat message, text message on their cellphone or even worse in everyday conversations in real life. Caution: “False Lolling” [...] is a class G felony punishable by permanent IP banning and in rare cases death by pawnage.”, it says on nomorelol.com

Remedy LOI: Laughing on the inside.

False usage of the abbreviation lol (laughing out loud) is committed by so called lol addicts whose remedy should be found in loi, as in laughing on the inside. LMAO (laughing my ass off) and ROFL (rolling of the floor laughing) are most likely to be replaced with an alternative as well. Since how often do you roll over your floor.

Nomorelol.com - Check it out and make sure you don’t misuse internet acronyms. I guess someone might have confounded figuratively and the more commonly used literally.

Dealing with the question of where the money comes from once it ends up in my wallet is not the very first thing I’d do. Usually. But during my stay in the US of A, I came across with the depicted 1-Dollar-Bill. The Currency Tracking Study is obviously researching on where the money goes and comes from. Here is the statistic for the Dollar bill that I got at Fresh Planet, Santa Cruz (I crossed out the serial number to ensure that nobody messes up the tracking):