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Unboxing Kettle Bakes Lightly Salted, 4-Ounce Bags (Pack of 15)
One of the Interweb’s most recently developed art forms is the Unboxing. This is defined by the Urban Dictionary as: The Internet trend of showing photos or video from the unpacking of a retail box of some desirable product, such as the latest laptop or portable music player. Since we try to remain fashion forward, … Continue reading
COP15, Compromise, Christmas And…Romance
Here a world conference, there a world conference. Whenever one of these big-time global confabs takes place, like COP15, I get the urge to watch “Girl In The Cafe” again. Released a few years ago, it is still strikingly relevant today. So right now would be a great time to rent, watch or purchase this DVD. … Continue reading
What’s Better Than Music Subscriptions? Coming soon, iCloud
What’s in a word? If the word is Cloud then the assumption is that it’s newer and better. Last week Apple bought the music service Lala. Without going into the gory details, Lala’s product allows you to access the music you already purchased from their cloud computers, no matter where you are located. The technology … Continue reading
The Swiss Step Poorly, Falling Off The Mont(blanc)
As recently reported in the Financial Times, the Swiss have stuck their foot in it once again, The Swiss penmaker Montblanc, in a jarring attempt to raise its profile in India, has unveiled a gold-and-silver fountain pen to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi, the independence leader whose austere asceticism was at the heart of his liberation campaign. … Continue reading
What’s Better Than The Darwin Awards? Ig Noble
We’ve always been a fan of The Darwin Awards, A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek honour named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. Awards have been given for people who “do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool” (i.e. lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid … Continue reading
Kindle Nation Finds The Symbol
Not to beat a Dead Symbol, but here’s an update on Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” sales. The Kindle version is outselling the Hard Cover edition on Amazon’s website! We’ve been following the back and forth between the publishing industry and Amazon for several months, and this latest data point should really focus some minds. … Continue reading
A Big Happy Group
“The Lost Symbol“ by Dan Brown was published a few days ago. His last book, “The DaVinci Code” has more than 81 million copies in print world wide. With books sales down about 15% this year the entire publishing industry is hoping that “The Lost Symbol” will pull consumers into bookstores and boost sales for … Continue reading
Have They Seen The Light? Probably Not Yet.
Several weeks ago we castigated the book publishing industry, and in particular Knoff Doubleday, for the idiocy that passed for their marketing strategy of e-Books. At the time of our post Knoff Doubleday had declined to offer “The Lost Symbol“, Dan Brown’s (author of Da Vinci Code) new book on Amazon’s Kindle until some unspecified … Continue reading
You Book Publishers Think You Are Sooo Intellectual
In a previous post we brought you up to speed on what passes for strategic thinking in the book publishing world regarding electronic editions. Instead of working with distributors like Amazon (Kindle) to develop new business models, the publishers have been screwing their partners by forcing them to sell e-books at a loss, while they increase … Continue reading
Don’t Stop Now, Let’s Just Put Everything In Oil Drums!
At least the lawyers kiss you first. I’m not a huge fan of the legal profession, but compared to the people who package the laundry detergent at warehouse stores, they are squeeky clean. About three years ago we consumers were the beneficiaries of a huge step forward in state-of-the-art packaging. Laundry Detergent delivered in new … Continue reading
What The Flock?
I guess I completely missed the 80′s. I know for sure I missed the 60′s, but I came by that honestly; as in “if you remember the 60′s you weren’t there.” So imagine the surprise when my son Matthew told me he found a really great T-Shirt featuring a Flock of Gulls. He pointed me … Continue reading
