Government is broken
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Bipartisanship apparently means finding common ground with these people.
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Oct 26
A what?
Disney is releasing a 3-D thrill-ride version of A Christmas Carol, but there's some risk (3D!) that it will be (3D!) seen as a gimmick (3D!). From a NYT article about A Christmas Carol: "For starters, the studio is replowing perhaps the most overplowed piece of intellectual property in history. The 1843 novella about a greedy curmudgeon who is visited by three apparitions on Christmas Eve is old enough that it is public domain, and it has been adapted for stage, television and film more than 50 times in recent decades, including an all-dog version." How, exactly does one conduct an all-dog production of a play?Comments [0]
Oct 22
Ballmer: The Internet is like a ...
Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone," Ballmer said. "That's why they've got 75,000 applications — they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.
via google.com
I can't actually come up with a metaphor that captures what Ballmer thinks the internet is. Has he ever actually seen the thing?, I wonder.
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Oct 20
Orrin Hatch is still a dick
People Are Hurting And The GOP Still Blocks Unemployment Benefits
Because of the actions of two Republican senators, every day this month 7,000 jobless workers have lost their unemployment insurance (UI) coverage. Each day these two Republicans continue to stand in the way of Senate passage of a UI extension, 7,000 more workers will run out of benefits.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tried twice to bring the UI measure to a vote on the Senate floor. First Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), then Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) blocked action.
Kyl, goes without saying, is too. I have the sharp pain of being "represented" by both of them, past and present.
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Oct 20
DroidDoes web site: a missed opportunity
missed opportunity
One quick note on the DroidDoes campaign: the whole site is built in Flash, which makes it completely unreadable on the iPhone. This fact may be some cute inside baseball play on the "iDon't" theme, but as a marketing tactic it's absolutely boneheaded. Dear Verizon: your campaign is a meme. You want it to spread. To people with iPhones.
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missed opportunityOne quick note on the DroidDoes campaign: the whole site is built in Flash, which makes it completely unreadable on the iPhone. This fact may be some cute inside baseball play on the "iDon't" theme, but as a marketing tactic it's absolutely boneheaded. Dear Verizon: your campaign is a meme. You want it to spread. To people with iPhones.
via sippey.com
I tried to check out the DroidDoes site myself last night, and had much the same impression. Any web site that presents solely gigantic flash splash page (rendered a big grey box by Click to Flash), offers an opportunity to skip the intro (also in Flash) that, when selected, still presents a short whiz-bang cinematic, all to allow the user to get to a second page that functions solely to harvest email addresses and contains no useful information whatsoever, is not a successful effort.
If that's all your web site does, I wouldn't advise putting the URL in your expensive TV ad.
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Oct 19
The Emperor's Castle
via flickr.com
Wow, this is cool.
From "The Emperor's Castle" by Thomas Hillier, produced at the Bartlett School of Architecture, 2009.Hillier's Project Text:
The Emperor’s Castle
The Emperor’s castle originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker, Ando Hiroshige. This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. These characters have been replaced by architectonic metaphors creating an urban theatre within the grounds of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.
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Oct 14
Article: That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/sports/playmagazine/05robicpm.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
In a consideration of Robic, three facts are clear: he is nearly indefatigable, he is occasionally nuts, and the first two facts are somehow connected. The question is, How? Does he lose sanity because he pushes himself too far, or does he push himself too far because he loses sanity? Robic is the latest and perhaps most intriguing embodiment of the old questions: What happens when the human body is pushed to the limits of its endurance? Where does the breaking point lie? And what happens when you cross the line?
(via Instapaper)
This is a great, fascinating story about the intersection of physiology and psychology -- and a guy who's nuts.
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Oct 3
Spock knows cool
I dig the way the windshield reflection is reminiscent of Spock's eyebrows.
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Sep 30
Ssssh. We've replaced their gourmet coffee with STARBUCKS CRYSTALS
via smartplanet.com
Instant coffee from Starbucks? I don't know about this. Maybe it's smart marketing in some segments, but it does seem like a strange identity and branding manuever for the guys who made the world safe for gourmet, expensive coffee.
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