moses runs the numbers: There is only one logical integration of all these statistics with the recent Soundscan data: even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US – and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) – the Industry is still […]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
film photos are now niche
we <3 sciam
Scientific American has a great op-ed satirizing creationism: There’s no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don’t mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. […]
when computers crash
one guy was not happy when his machine died: “There was one restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer,” Norman said. “That destroyed the laptop … and deep fryer, too.”
plagiarist laura k. pahl aka laura k. krishna
So this guy catches a plagiarist, Laura K Pahl, then tries to cover it up by changing her name (but doesn’t change the URL). Ooops. And Laura goes to Lewis University. (And he didn’t change James Gaffney’s name.) Yay Google cache.
prius love
The Boston Globe on the Prius love: Then there’s the hipness factor: ”I’ve had a lot of kids tell me that this is way cool,” she says, ”and at age 52, I have very few ways to be way cool.” When she first started driving the old Prius, it was, she says, ”a guy magnet.” […]
hybrids in Wired
Wired talks about the Prius: But the marketing department knew that only a special customer would pay $20,000 for a compact car. Specifically, someone with a master’s degree, a six-figure income, and a fondness for composting. Oh well, I’m 0-for-3 on that one. :)
japanese movies
Any movie that starts with 50 japanese schoolgirls jumping in front of a speeding train is by default messed up.
back in the day…
Gerald Weinberg talks about what it was like to be a real programmer: A San Francisco oil company, which couldn’t accept the coast-to-coast turnaround time, requested an IBM machine of its own (at a cost of roughly $20 million) to run an application that blended oil from its distillation towers everyday. According to Weinberg, performing […]
easter bunny attacked
boy attacks easter bunny at mall.