Archive for the 'History' Category

1/31/07 – The day the Mooninites won.

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A quick tip to the citizenry and local authorities of Boston: today is the 1 year anniversary of your collective freak-out over a guerrilla marketing campaign. So, when looking overhead, possibly on some scaffolding set up in a construction site, and you see some bright blue lights arranged on what can otherwise be called a […]

105 years ago today: Edison westinghoused an elephant.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Quickly, do you know who created the phonograph? The carbon filament found in incandescent light bulbs? The stock-ticker? How about movie production as we currently know it? Now, do you know who electrocuted an elephant as a marketing gimmick to slander the name of alternating current?
The answer to those question is one name: Thomas Edison. […]