Royal Virility Performance

Royal Virility Performance a.k.a “the viagra beer” goes on sale on april 28th and is limited to 1,000, er, units. supposedly “guaranteed to beat brewer’s droop”. what will those brits think of next?

Saturated by psd.

i think i saw this x-files espisode, the one where the mulder finally gets a chance to see the vault where the fbi kept the x-files only to be told they were supposedly destroyed as a matter of policy. turns out, it’s true! the fbi, at last, fesses up and says it has had a policy of destroying documents related to UFO investigations because they would have taken up too much filing space. my impression of the FBI is one of an agency that’s very concerned about collecting and retaining excess paperwork.

that home you bought in 1979 has lost 8.5% of its inflation-adjusted value and is now similar to inflation adusted prices of 1894. i’m guessing a generation of folks accustomed to thinking of a a home as a cash machine would be surprised to learn that, in real terms, prices for U.S. home prices changed very little from 1890 to the mid-1990s.

set godin write in “The realization is now”, “we’re realizing that the industrial revolution is fading…The promise that you can get paid really well to do precisely what your boss instructs you to do is now a dream, no longer a reality.” the recently deceased harvard professor daniel bell first wrote about the “the coming post-industrial society” way back in 1974 but, perhaps we can finally come up with something more descriptive than post-industrial.