Linkpile

• When Context Matters: Consumers Link Unfamiliar Products To Surrounding Items: “We might think a car advertised among expensive cars is also pricey—but only if we’re unfamiliar with the car.” Intuitive. Has now been studied.
• poppytalk: This Week from Lisa Congdon: Artist Interview – Amy Ruppel: Ruppel’s new painting series, “Birds That Are Mean,” looks quite interesting.
• The Joe You Know: On Shakespeare and “Stealth Starbucks”: Interesting writeup on Generation Bubble.
• A Top Etsy Seller Downsizes: Craftypod Podcast interview with Ryan McAbery , a top seller on Etsy who decided to walk away from it.
• Interesting aside in Nicholson Baker’s NYer Kindle piece: “Romance readers are major Kindlers. ‘The success of the ebook is being fueled by the romance and erotic romance market,’ Peter Smith, of ITworld, reports.” I didn’t know that. Extra detail: “Smith cites the actress and Kindle enthusiast Felicia Day, of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ who has been bingeing on paranormals like ‘Dark Needs at Night’s Edge.’ ‘I’ve read like, 6 books this week and ordered about 10 more,’ Day blogged. ‘It’s stuff I never would have checked out at the Barnes and Noble, because the gleaming and oily man chests would have made me blush too much.'”
• Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga: In 1985. BoingBoing link, to video. Neat.
• Shockingly violent coffee commercials starring Muppets: “The ads starred the cheerful Wilkins, who liked Wilkins Coffee, and the grumpy Wontkins, who hated it. Wilkins would often do serious harm to Wontkins in the ads — blowing him up, stabbing him with a knife, and smashing him with a club, among many other violent acts.”

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