Archive For January, 2010
We live in a superlative culture. If a thing isn’t super, ultra, extra, power, etc, it’s not much of anything anymore. Here’s an example: Phones –> cell phones –> smartphones –> Google’s new Nexus One “superphone” If you have an important business meeting you can put on your power suit. Politicians cinch up their power [...]
Focus on the Family, the same ultra-conservative Christian group that brought you the best website ever, has now decided to blow approximately $3 million on a 30-second pro-life Super Bowl ad. I haven’t yet seen the ad, which apparently features Heisman-winner Tim Tebow, but I would be surprised if it changes anyone’s opinion on the [...]
Google, the benevolent dictator of the interwebs, has undertaken a massive project to digitize and index all the world’s printed material under the Google Books platform. So far they’ve scanned over 10 million books, including those in the public domain and those still protected by copyright. The cost of the scanning, an estimated $50 million [...]
In honor of Sunday’s premier of the 8th season of 24, I’ve compiled this list of Jack Bauer one-liners from some online sources. Dammit, we are running out of time! Jack Bauer named his cat ‘Chuck Norris.’ Why? Because He’s a pussy. If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, [...]
Yahoo has been losing market share to Google for years, and now is determined to fight back. In a bold move that surprisingly has garnered zero press and somehow went unnoticed by the few remaining Yahoo searchers, Yahoo has increased the maximum length of description text for search advertisers from 70 characters to 71 characters. [...]
This is the back of our property tax payment stub: So clearly what they meant to say was “Due: April 10, 2010.” What’s the point of having a deadline if it’s not enforced?
