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I’ve subscribed for the past few years (my wunnerful girlfriend actually helped me make the leap from newsstand customer to subscriber) and I’ve noticed over the past year or so that it’s a real conversation starter if I get a cup of coffee or something after I get the new issue out of my mailbox. […]

I’m infuriated by the official U.S. Buy Nothing Day (read about it at Wikipedia, Adbusters). The organizers promote the day after Thanksgiving — i.e., one of the biggest shopping days of the year — as a good day to try to get people not to buy anything.
I think this is the same run-before-you-crawl error […]

I didn’t really set out to boycott major label recordings (at least those that don’t have software nasties), and the fact that I’ve kinda been doing so for the past several years is more a byproduct of how I’m exposed to and purchase music than a deliberate strategy.
Since I joined La La, I’ve gotten […]

Once upon a time, I attended a conference about (unclassified) artificial intelligence applications in (defense) logistics. One presentation there trumped any horror flick I’ve ever seen for sheer terror. It dealt with robots designed to enter storage tanks that had a mixture of toxic contaminants, identify their contents, and neutralize them (if possible). What made […]

I think “Wii” is quite possibly a great name.
Why? Because everyone from Seth Godin to my friend Flashhe is writing about how terrible it is.
Result: the product name is more firmly embedded in my cranium than anything else in its line since, oh, I dunno, the Atari 2600.
Crypto marketing at its finest.

One of photo sharing/social networking site Flickr’s interesting features is its ability to create RSS feeds for photos from its members. I have several such feeds to help keep me in touch with distant friends. Today they all suffered an interesting glitch: they delivered me ten seemingly random photographs from a bunch of different folks. […]

Every now and then, something that seems like it should have been blindingly obvious forever hits me like a an uppercut to the jaw. Today’s bolt from the blue:

A $1500 consulting project requires as much client management and administrative time as a $5000 project.

I’ve been aware of this for a long time, but I’ve always […]

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