June 2009
20 posts
“As Apple’s ecosystem has grown, from the Mac to the iPod to the iPhone,...”
– Oregon takes a bigger bite of the Apple [The Oregonain]
Silicon Forest? Eventually every state will have a silicon ___ moniker. Welcome to Nevada’s Silicon Cesspool. Next stop, the golden Silicon Plains of Nebraska.
“The Postman inspires a teenager named Ford Lincoln Mercury (Larenz Tate), and...”
– The Wikipedia page for Kevin Costner’s “The Postman” is always good for a chuckle.
Area Man Maps Out Drinking Strategy →
Brandon Roy Wants Ronny Turiaf →
Make it so.
“I love lists, and nostalgia, and snap remembrances of matters long forgotten....”
– Boy, That Decade Just Flew By, Didn’t It? - Will Leitch
Obama creates Pacific Northwest Trail →
Glacier National Park is God’s country. Maybe I can hike all the way there from Portland?
“If friendship is the key to happiness, then maybe this is the key to friendship,...”
– “Ya Gotta Have (Real) Friends“ (via kmaverick)
“And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. Most...”
– Jay Heinrichs in “How to Teach a Child to Argue” (via delayprocrastinate)
A good face-to-face argument can make you feel alive and not just a slug on a log staring at a screen all day. The key problem with Political Correctness today is that people take disagreements as personal attacks. Fight it...
“This is the year of WTF. Yep, What the F&&&.
It doesn’t matter...”
– “Success and Motivation” From Mark Cuban’s Blogmaverick blog.
Checkmark on #1…
But If We Started Dating It Would Ruin Our... →
So much good stuff from The Onion
Put Ad on Web. Count Clicks. Revise. →
From the “Mad Men” era until now, advertising has been about a catchy tagline, an arresting image, the Big Idea. But Mr. Herman and his competitors are bringing some Wall Street-like analysis to Madison Avenue, exploiting the huge amounts of data produced by the Internet to adjust strategy almost instantly.
“There are still Chris Bermans and Terry Bradshaws, “entertainers” mugging to...”
– Will Leich’s “For The Fans” article from New York Magazine and why blogs and new media are making nerds out of all of us. Even sportscasters.
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