Finally. A new fragrance, brought to you by Alan Cumming. Let the word/fore-play begin!
Get retro and new: the top 100 gadgets of all time.
Googlezon
The New York Times goes offline as a print pamphlet in the face of increased competition from Googlezon in the year 2014.
The McLibel Two should have been given legal aid during their fight against McDonald’s, a British court rules. Background of the case here
“We need to have a cathedral builder’s mentality when we’re doing these campaigns,” Mark said. “We may not see the building completed in our lifetime, but if we finish the foundation, the next generation can build on that.”
Why the left needs to be patient and persistent
Boycott? Too negative, says co-founder of BuyBlue.org.
D is for Dean in DNC
Howard Dean elected DNC chair. Finally, some vertebrae in the party.
Beautifully-rendered and funny animation about the greeting card industry.
Modern Drunkard
Google comes up with a mapping tool that effectively pounds Yahoo into a stain. Futher the pounding: See how to create an Internot startup at Enormicom.
San Jose-based Wave Magazine brings forth Dorkstorm: The Annihilation.
What happens when Nike designs a mascot for the University of Oregon? A horrifying steroid duck.
Say it loud, say it plowed! Denver’s own Modern Drunkard Magazine.
Heavy metal fonts
Funniest critique of a Star Wars convention ever. And then find that heavy metal band font here.
What can one scene from the movie Sideways do? Get people crazy about pinot noir.
Have a kitty clean your screen. Everyone loves kitties.
And this is from album number 114.
I know almost nothing about jazz. In Seattle, jazz is everywhere (including Kenny G sightings in Greenlake, but I don’t remember that really being *jazz*) and so are black turtleneck sweaters and close-cropped George Clooney hair and withdrawn smiles, but I try not to pay too much attention to that, so when I’m invited to go to Jazz Alley (sidenote: The last time I was at Jazz Alley, I saw Tito Puente. He issued a memorable quote before introducing a song: “And this is from album number 114.”) to see The Regina Carter Ensemble, I had no idea what to expect.
Regina had had a family emergency, so her cousin, James Carter, an accomplished saxophonist, filled in. Carter had a talent for making a saxophone sound like several different instruments, and at one point it seemed like he was having an argument with his sax, and the sax would answer back, and after a bit of musical banter with the band, all the instruments made up and set off into a wacky tirade. That was followed up with a soft, dreamy number that reminded me of the outdoor snowy scenes from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, right before the placed ornament brought the tree down. Delicious.
My friend Todd is really good friends with the whole ensemble, so after the show we got to hang out with the band, so much so that I ended up driving the drummer and the bassist to their accommodations in Eastlake (I’ve never driven a band home before, unless it was family). The Regina Carter Ensemble, featuring James Carter, is playing through tomorrow night, February 5th.
Grand Theft Auto: Myst
Microsoft managers get upset seeing their employees with iPods, causing employees to swap out the white headphones for black ones.
Howard Dean emerges as the frontrunner for the DNC leadership. Avoid the scream, Howard. Avoid the scream.
Laptops render men infertile! Solution: play Doom as a boardgame., while your salary decreases compared to the rate of inflation. Or put your laptop on your desk, and play the hybrid “mashup” game Grand Theft Auto: Myst.
“We’ll have no trouble here!”
It’s coming! It’s coming! The League of Gentlemen movie!
Great article in Seattle Weekly on investing for change.
I’m feeling a bit luddite: why on earth would people watch TV on a cellphone?
Fidgeters seem to burn an extra 350 calories a day, or 10-20 pounds a year.
And the FCC and White House drop their effort to relax media ownership rules. Thank you, Media Alliance!
Health insurance … with attitude?
I’m a big fan of Apple and its products and third-party furniture spinoffs, but when will they green up their manufacturing process?
Why does health insurance have to have attitude?
Mr (Ted) Turner … said it was “not necessarily a bad thing” that CNN and other news networks were behind Fox in the ratings. Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany in the early 1930s than people that were running against him”.
Former AOL/Time Warner chairman Ted Turner compares Fox to Nazi propaganda
A very cool set of Yellow Pages, although I’m not sure I’d have wanted to be the photographer who rode in the van all day to get these photos.
A horrible US remake of BBC hit The Office is making the rounds on the Internet today (d’oh, link removed).
Tiv-NO?
SiliconValley.com positions Tivo as on its way to becoming the most successful failure in history. While my Tivo is already paying for itself with its lifetime subscription, I wonder if its too soon to be making that prediction. If they do go south, I predict they’ll be purchased by a competitor with the leverage to market a product with tremendous brand identity. They’re solvent for another year.
There will be no more Powells in the Bush administration come March, now that FCC chairman Michael Powell is leaving.