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...adrift. It had dabbled in creating content, a strategy it later cut back on, and had fallen further behind Google in generating revenue from its huge audience. Last November an agent provocateur emerged in Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president, whose leaked memo became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. He argued passionately that Yahoo! was wasting its talent by distributing its resources like peanut butter on a widening slice of bread. "The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular," Garlinghouse wrote. "I hate peanut butter...
...close as they are, the three directors do not share any particular aesthetic; they'd never devise a Dogme-style manifesto of belligerent minimalism. Their rule is No Rules...
...environment and for the animals than grain feeding them, but produces more succulent meat. And Santi Santimaria, of Barcelona's Can Fabes, reproached his colleagues for their constant pursuit of the vanguard. "We're a gang of frauds who work to distract snobs," Santamaria said, before issuing his own manifesto: "The only truth that matters is the product that comes out of the earth, passes through the ovens to the mouth of the eater, and is then defecated...
...except food, medicine and essential toiletries for a year? Thus was born a movement that they named, in a light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that lists their aims as going "beyond recycling," reducing clutter in their homes and simplifying their lives: "Borrow, barter or buy used...
...three letters are visible everywhere along the Saint-Martin canal in northeast Paris. They're on makeshift traffic signs warning "Attention, SDF." They're on sheets of paper tacked to trees, titled "SDF Manifesto." But most of all, they're inked on the sides of some 250 lightweight tents planted along the canal's frigid banks, alerting passersby, "An SDF Lives Here." SDF stands for sans domicile fixe and refers to the nation's estimated 86,000 homeless people. Though usually scattered around the city and hidden from view under bridges, in Metro stations or in parks, nearly 300 Parisian...