INFAMOUS Magazine’s January issue hit the shelves a week into the new year with an innocuous black on white cover. It disappeared from shelves almost immediately and thereafter, could only be sighted if you happened to be friends with someone with the foresight to pick up the magazine during the hipster feeding frenzy that occurs around the publication date.

December was a good month. Great food, awesome events including the launch of Imagine1Day at Chip and Shannon Wilson’s home and a calendar chock full of celebration.

As always, INFAMOUS was on the cutting edge, getting access to places that even I hadn’t got the press release to yet.  Hot new places, cool new things and great events. Check out INFAMOUS Magazine and the latest issue, HERE.

UPDATE – September 8th, 2008:

Looks to be a pretty important topic out there. It appears that one out of a thousand visitors that view this blog post thinks that either I’m facebook or that I’m affiliated with facebook. Let me be clear:

I am neither facebook, nor am I affiliated with facebook.

I repeat,

I AM NOT FACEBOOK.

Leaving a comment on this blog asking to be reinstated will only lead you to being publically ridiculed.

Now, back to regular programming…

Earlier this year, in January, my facebook account got suspended. I’ve always seen it as an opportunity to talk about the various implications (and opportunities) presented by this suspension but it’s taken me forever to finally get to it.

Read past the jump to find out more about it.
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This one hits close to home, U of A and Hokkaido University doing a collaborative study… go figure, here’s the repost.

From Terrie’s Take #460, HERE.

In an interesting experiment, researchers from the University of Alberta and Hokkaido University have found that Canadians and Japanese assess the moods of people they interact with differently. In the experiment, people from both nationalities were asked to judge whether a face in a photo was happy, angry, or sad. The photographed subject was standing in front of a group of other people who were also visible. More than half of the Canadians focused just on the face of the subject, while 72% of the Japanese took into account the looks on the faces of the group in the background. ***Ed: So it’s official, Japanese care more about groups when deciding a course of action.** (Source: TT commentary from sciencedaily.com, Mar 7, 2008)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…