M. Kingsley goes semiotic in this edition of Quipsologies.

~ KEVIN LO ~

I’m sure this is everywhere, but is it really the end of Emigre? [More - Ed.]

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And not sure if this is news, but Ed Fella has a web site. [Woohoo! - Ed.]

~ BRYONY ~

San Francisco made of J-ELLO

~ A new flickr tag: glowing apple

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iMac Chocolate cigarettes from Mexico. Does this even make sense? Why target lefties?

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Lugz footwear has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple Computer and its agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, over similarities between a commercial “Arrow” (left), which the company aired in 2002, and the recent spot with Eminem.

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Completely redrawn MTA maps in your new video iPod.

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Our very own Marian Bantjes has gracefully donated her talents to help raise funds for hurricane victims:

Please purchase with our friends from Veer.

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This just in: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, best known for handing out the Daytime Emmy Awards, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has created an award category to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, like the video iPod and PlayStation Portable.

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From a marketing executive to a Saks near you: the misadventures of Wawa Hohhot and her family of Mongolian cashmere goats goats who just happen to live on the roof of Saks’s Midtown Manhattan store (HarperCollins Publishers).

$16.99 per promo book.

~ M. KINGSLEY ~

The semiotics of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s jeweled brooches.

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The semiotics of Deterring Inadvertent Human Intrusion into Waste Isolation Plants — for about 10,000 years (excerpted).

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The semiotics of Transliterature; or “how can computer documents — shown interactively on screens, stored on disk, transmitted electronically — improve on paper?” [Via Bifurcated Rivets]

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The semiotics of Kermit the Frog in the “Got Milk” Advertising Campaign. [Found at Applied Semiotics/Semiotique Appliquee journal.]

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The semiotics of visual coding among homosexual men. (NSFW)

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Japanese information, organization and time management guru Noguchi Yukio’s Filing System has received a lot of recent blog attention. [Via Boing Boing]

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Two worthwhile exhibitions of text in art have recently opened in New York: The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at The New York Public Library and Looking at Words — The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper at Andrea Rosen Gallery. If you go to “Looking at Words”, give yourself at least an hour; the work is floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall full of amazing work by just about everyone.

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