OK, so Facebook-flavor drink. Check. There's already a drink in honor of the gaming segment: Mt. Dew. So what comes next? Posterous-flavored Powerade? A brew for Twitter, perhaps we'll call it "Sweet Tweet malt liquor"?
Somebody. Make. It. Stop.
Advertising Age noticed a Facebook-flavored drink and speculates what's next... I cannot confirm or deny the existence of a Posterous-flavored Powerade.
Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governing system is old and broken and dysfunctional. Fixing it—without resorting to a constitutional convention or a coup—is the key to securing the nation’s future.
This was absolutely well worth a read by any civic-minded American. Yes, things are screwed up here... it's not as bad as people say, but then again there are plenty of things wrong.
And our government sucks, and it doesn't look like there's a decent way to fix it. Some effort in the article is spent decrying that our Senate is massively out of whack -- that the Gang of Six of health-care-reform-fame represented a mere 3% of the American Population. That our government, often like our military, is horribly driven day-to-day by short term tactics and completely blind to long term strategy as a result.
Some amazing points here -- with hope for the future as well. We've been talking about the fall of America for well over 200 years... with any luck, we'll be talking about the impending fall for hundreds of years to come.
Man we're going to have to license this design and print a few of these... ;-) Thanks Micah.
This is an example of the 'new computer setup' form that gets filled out when you buy a new computer at Best Buy.
Are we buying consumer electronics, or are we getting our car serviced? Because it seems like one way or another, we're getting fleeced.
Consumerist has the inside scoop on the $70 scam of 'pre-optimized computers' that Best Buy has been trying to pass off as a product. All they do is remove some of the Norton crapware that come pre-installed. Isn't that funny? In a mad grab for more consumer dollars, the consumer electronics apparatus has created scam upon scam, first with computer makers over-monetizing their out-of-box experience with absurd preinstalls, and then with retailers charging $70 on top of the whole thing to uninstall it.
Insanity piled upon depravity, is this how the computer industry plans to eke out extra profit?
Label your units... kind of funny to what length larger orgs have to go to in order to hide information from their competitors. Vince was like:
what are we measuring? sec? millisecs? ... minutes?
Because I get to listen to awesome gems like this one from Jimi Hendrix's deep b-side catalog and only pay 10 cents for it.
Here's hoping the business model carries over under the Apple helm. *crosses fingers*
In 1977, a 22-year-old truck driver named James Cameron went to see Star Wars with a pal. His friend enjoyed the movie; Cameron walked out of the theater ready to punch something. He was a college dropout and spent his days delivering school lunches in Southern California’s Orange County. But in his free time, he painted tiny models and wrote science fiction — stories set in galaxies far, far away. Now he was facing a deflating reality: He had been daydreaming about the kind of world that Lucas had just brought to life. Star Wars was the film he should have made.
30 years ago, James Cameron was a dropout and a truck driver. How crazy is that?
A lot can change in 30 years. Or even 10. Sitting with old friends at a dive bar in the Mission this past weekend, we thought back to 10 years ago -- we were high school seniors. It is funny to think about how far we've come in 10 years... from fresh faced kids to building our grand plans. Its even more staggering to think where we'll be in another ten.
And what about another 10 after that? If we keep moving, who knows?
If I buy an e-book device, I need to know that the service that backs it will be around forever. Kind of like a book. A book will sit on my shelf for-ev-er -- or at least until someone moves it.
I know Amazon has the resources and foresight to see this through all the way. The only other company that probably has the ability to be enduring in this way? Apple.
I'm certainly thankful for the Nook though -- it pushes new features and great ideas like the capacitive color touch screen below. Looking forward to the Kindle 3...
