One Weird Trick

Have you ever spotted these web ads and asked yourself "Who do these people think they're fooling?"

"One Weird Trick"....or some variant in ads for everything from mortgage reduction to testosterone building. Nothing screams SCAM louder.

They began appearing around 2008. And became ubiquitous by 2010.

In copy writing, one major no-no is overused superlatives. The reason is simple - They get old. And cliche.

And apparently, I'm not the only one who notices it. 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-09/just-1-weird-trick-to-get-you-to-read-this-article.html

The Town That Time Forgot

Welcome to Kitsault, BC Canada.

Ninety-four homes,

Two hundred apartments,

A library

A shopping mall,

A restaurant, movie theater, sports center, a bank and a hospital.

It's a town with everything.

Everything but people.

More below......

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/09/04/the-time-capsule-ghost-town-waiting-to-be-brought-back-to-life/

Radio Station Stickers

More here.....

http://radiostickeroftheday.blogspot.com/

The Cassette Tape Turns 50

The cassette tape has hit a milestone.......

The History Of Cassettes

http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2012/07/history-of-cassettes.html

More

http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-musics-worst-format-has-found-a-new-life,102531/

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/09/06/cassette-tapes-at-50-alive-and-kicking/?intcmp=obnetwork

The Ediphone

 Whilst on a visit to my friend's house, he had something in his yard he (and no one else) could identify. Only that it looked like a "typewriter with no keyboard" But what was it?

It was an Ediphone (or what remained of it.)

The Ediphone was an early dictation machine like the Dictaphone that used wax cylinders (cylinder records were considered obsolete by 1912. But Edison made commercial music cylinder records up until 1929.) But beyond that into the '30s and even as far as the early '50s. The wax cylinder was used for office dictation before it was replaced by belt machines and a few years later, tape - even The Edison Company eventually got into tape.

 ..........until the 2000s when digital took over.

The Ediphone was electrically powered, but strangely recorded acoustically.