This is 100% taken from the OP’s post. Read the comments to see more people musing on it, and lamenting that NO ONE WAVES ANYMORE. This is an addendum to my rant at JEEP corporate for missing out on one (more…)
You’re on coke. Oh you didn’t know? Marketplace’s piece on Coca-Cola’s back pedalling fails to ask an important question:
Coke cancelled their “You’re on [Diet] Coke” campaign. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/coca-cola-cancels-its-youre-diet-coke-campaign THIS IS NOT A JOKE. I saw it was like “NO WAY – SOMEONE (more…)
The Coming Age of Long Form Journalism – some delightful examples of media rich articles.
The duality of a society with less and less attention finding the time to consume large bits of detailed information is not so surprising, as modern times find niche markets victorious. Looking to be (more…)
27 Foods to never purchase again, or “How to become healthier in a super simple way”
Far more surprises that I might have expected. This is actually worth reading… it talks about why some “health” foods are a scam, how gluten is REALLY bad for you if you aren’t celiac, and just how (more…)
Open Letter to JEEP & their corporate thinkers. I don’t cars much, because, you know… yeah. Cars.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/04/11/mxp-vo-land-rover-disappearing-hood.hln.html For those of us in high center trucks, who sometimes go offroad, this is INCREDIBLE. I often end up (more…)
Home Brewers that will suffer a Fishbits request to name a beer:
I would like to name a beer this: “Ahab’s Whale Tail Pale Ale Tale” as observed by Ishmael, bottled by Fishbits. Please make the back of the bottle note: “Fishbits accidentally bottled a crisp (more…)
Was the Nest buy overvalued? Google’s Internet for Things for Things.
No. Internet of Things. “An internet for things”. This is about google’s hardware struggles. Nest has some great designers (people heard of the ipod?), but it’s not about that. It’s about the other internet, (more…)
14 Tech Trends for 2014 from FastCo that aren’t uninspired, derivative “It’s the year of mobile” nonsense.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024464/15-tech-trends-that-will-define-2014-selected-by-frog  Anonymity, Disconnecting, Facebook unseated by Chinese, THE CONSUMER OWNING AND CONTROLLING THEIR DATA… (more…)
The Power of Adobe Photoshop, and a Plastic Vision of the Future Singularity… Augmented Humans seeking perfection.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/10/watch-as-woman-goes-from-average-to-fabulous-in-37-seconds/ That video is nutso, because we’ve actually created a human image that doesn’t exist, and (more…)
Broken Systems – watching the current rough seas of the 20th century from the shores of the 21st.
It’s not just NY. It’s cities, governments, and the systems firmly entrenched in the 20th century. It’s painful to watch – these broken systems haven’t been able to yoke themselves to the steam engine (more…)