does a nice job of highlighting the
nokia 3650’s finer points
and yet somehow manages to leave out it’s ability to
deter mosquitoes
. [ anti-mosquito via
rael
]
does a nice job of highlighting the
nokia 3650’s finer points
and yet somehow manages to leave out it’s ability to
deter mosquitoes
. [ anti-mosquito via
rael
]
taking a page from the prescient “conquest of cool”, adbusters is getting into the the shoe business by starting the blackspot sneaker brand. according to their marketing plan, they are accepting “preporders” [ no payment required ] and once they get 5000, they can start a production run at a unionized south korean factory.
of course they are open to cheap shots at using a south korean shop, but i’ll take them at their word that it’s a clean, well-lighted, unionized place at this point. i’ll admit that i haven’t preordered anything yet, because i’m a bit suspicious of a product that is only displayed in fuzzy artistic renderings. adbusters can position the shoes as being a nike killer all they want want, but i’m not going to get suckered into shelling out my money for what could potentially be a pair of crappy, chuck taylor ripoffs [ note that i’m saying they are, i just want more evidence and don’t make the logical error of assuming that i’m endorsing nike; it’s just that if i’m going to spend $60 to make a point then there are better ways to do it thanforking out cake for an adbusters stunt ].
theoretically, i’m all for what adbusters is trying to do. personally, i like how americanapparel going about it, which is similar in spirit on many levels; however, compared to the blunt instrument of blackspot rhetoric, there’s a savviness to americanapparel that i think is more broadly appealing.
in an amusing post the site formerly known as up2speed [ and even more formerly known as marketingfix ], explains why they’re changing their name to marketingwonk mere months after the last change. they forgot to do a trademark search. anyway, best of luck to them. the site, whatever the name, is always informative.
that said, i’m not sure why they just didn’t stick with marktingfix, which i think is less clunky than marketingwonk.
i live for the days that i can juxtapose the announcement of a shiny, new aviation software system which will rate your risk level based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling companions and date of ticket purchase, with the news that a man shipped himself from new york to texas in crate.
yes, that’s right. today i had the easiest,
least painful experience with
sendmail
of all things. for reasons too obscure to go into, i needed a local
mail server. normally, i avoid
sendmail
like the plague after discovering the pleasures of
postfix
. but local in this case means
os x
, which comes preloaded with
sendmail
.
great. i’ve either got to fiddle with installing
postfix
which will inevitably have a few speed bumps, but i get the
advantage of being able to configure it quickly; or i go with
sendmail
which is already installed, but which will likely come with it’s
own configuration speed bumps.
but a quick search for
“os x sendmail”
turns up the
“one click sendmain enabler”
, which happens to be heartily
recommended
by
jon udell
, which is good enough for me.
1 minute later i had a functioning mail server running.
i hear that
panther will go with postfix
anyway, so maybe i’ll only need to sully my system with
sendmail
for a short time.
recently, i downloaded a few of the christopher lydon interviews and put them on my ipod for when i’m running or driving around and sick of npr.
yesterday i rather enjoyed wandering around the home despot, while listening to an interview with the real live preacher. good stuff. now a good thing is even easier, considering that all the interviews are available in one tidy collection. just in time for a trip to chicago