May 2007
53 posts
Bloom - A Different Kind of Grocery Store. →
…and by different, I mean that it’s Food Lion, minus the lousy name. Friends at Giant Foods - take notice.
Seriously, Japan. WTF? →
A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for... →
An interesting background on the spiritual journey of Barack Obama.
CFL bulbs aren't perfect either. →
Baseball's rarest play - the unassisted triple... →
It’s not so much that I care…come to think of it, I don’t at all. It’s interesting statistics, though, and by posting this, I’m beating Hynes to the punch.
April 2007
63 posts
Last night I had a bad dream.
So last night I had a dream that I was watching television. There was this horrible Nickelback song playing as the soundtrack that was so bad that I couldn’t pay attention to the show. Thinking about it now, it seems that my dreaming mind was trying to write a Nickelback song in my sleep, making something even more horrible than an actual original. If that is even possible. (I wonder if I...
Satan behind illegal immigration, Utah County... →
Note: Japan is currently looking less crazy.
As it turns out, the "Japanese Consumers Buy Sheep... →
This news really doesn’t affect my feelings about Japan…
Bill in Congress attempts to reset internet radio... →
Patriarchy as a means for societal survival. →
An interesting commentary on the functionality of patriarchy in the preservation of a society. It’s interesting to look at demographic trends in Europe as a means to explaining the rise of Islam there - native Europeans have dramatically smaller birth rates, while immigrants reproduce much more frequently. The historical comparison to Rome presents interesting insights into both the causes...
TRANSUMERS | Consumers driven by experiences. →
Japanese scam sold sheep as poodles.
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It’s all in a good haircut.
Putin rejects talk of third term in office.
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Adobe Flex goes open source. →
The browser wars are over. Nobody won. Microsoft and Adobe are now digging trenches for the “rich media plaform” wars, where operating system and browser are irrelevant. While it’ll likely be confusing for consumers for a while, this is web 3.0 - where the web stops, and rich interactivity takes over.
So far, I’ve spent over an hour trying to navigate Verizon’s website to sign up for super-cheap phone service with DSL. It’s quite possibly the worst pre-customer experience I’ve ever had, second only to the last time I tried to sign up with them and they couldn’t find my house but forgot to let me know for three weeks. It’s completely amazing that this company...
Vonage attempts to raise awareness for patent... →
Yeah, it’s pretty self-serving. On the other hand, they’re right. I’m not a Vonage subscriber, but I believe that innovation, not patent encubrances should be the prime force in market economics.
Spinal Tap to reunite for Live Earth show in... →
This really tempts me to burn hydrocarbons and fly to London just to see them. Is doing this counterproductive to green efforts?
Drunk Man Parks Horse in German Bank. →
Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In... →
Limbo is sent to purgatory. →
So, all the babies queued up in limbo…where do they go?
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel →
Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of...
Supreme Court upholds partial birth abortion ban... →
Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright... →
Traditional media interests win again. Huzzah!
“Fortunately, nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were...”
– When bidets catch on fire.
Global warming seen as security issue. →
Wars over water and other diminishing resources are seen as potential threats to US security over the next 30-40 years.
Joost scores first deal with major broadcaster,... →
I really do think Joost, or a company very similar, is going to totally disrupt the cable industry.
The end of peak oil? →
Royal Dutch Shell has a patent out on an efficient, ecologically friendly process that extracts crude from “oil shale”. Enormous deposits lie in the Western US, but until now, it’s not been cost-effective to refine it.
“Vonnegut dead yesterday at age 84.”
– ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ author Vonnegut dies at 84. 12/04/2007. ABC News Online
Yo! Wordsworth Raps! →
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their...
The world will either change on August 13, or it... →
Nobody curses like an archbishop. →
Ex-Bangladesh PM charged in murder case. →
Bangladesh plunges further into instability between elections after former prime minister (and daughter of the founder of modern Bangladesh Mujibur Rahman) is vaguely charged with murder.
Hey Apple! Fix the green button already! →
It’s the button I try to never click.
A conversation about doing things.
Ethan: yeah
Aaron: it should be pretty easy
Ethan: yes you would mind?
Aaron: no, i mind would not
Fans Sour on Sweeter Version of Asia’s Smelliest... →
So they’ve found a way to make it smell less? Good - now work on making it not taste like onions.
Information software design is graphic design. →
DRM will never work. →
Create a secure system, and some very bright person will find a way to waltz right around it.
Pearls Before Breakfast →
A world-famous violinist plays a set in L’Enfant Plaza in DC. Does anyone notice?
Spinning Into Oblivion →
Record labels wanted to kill singles, but instead killed albums. They wanted to kill Napster, but instead killed the compact disc. Record stores blame the RIAA.