M. Ward on Cadillac Ad
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Music, Television | 1 Comment
Just caught M. Ward’s great “Here Comes The Sun Again” on a Cadillac SUV ad. As you were.
Read More..>>Sports Guy Hit-n-Run
Posted on September 1, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Money, Perception | Leave a Comment
Two things jumped out from Bill Simmons’ summer recommendations: 1. He alerts us to “Amazon Prime” in which for $80/year, supposedly you can get anything you order shipped second day air, with no minimum order price. My question: Does this include Fried Chicken?. NOTE: A quick google shows “The Perils of Amazon Prime” at the [...]
Read More..>>In Defense of Geeks
Posted on August 9, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Politics, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Joel Spolsky to Travelers Insurance – don’t fuck with the geeks. I’m sorry, Travelers, maybe the current Bush presidency has given you the idea that it’s ok to make fun of the scientists, inventors, researchers and programmers who are creating the future, finding cures for your diseases, building the spreadsheets you use to figure out [...]
Read More..>>Joy In Mudville
Posted on August 8, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Despite their best efforts to shoot themselves in the foot, Major League Baseball will not be able to ban people from playing fantasy baseball. “The names and playing records of major league baseball players as used in CBC’s fantasy games are not copyrightable,” Medler wrote. “Therefore, federal copyright law does not pre-empt the players’ claimed [...]
Read More..>>Fear and loathing in the Richmond District
Posted on July 18, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Ahhhh, a landlord with style: Sometimes late at night I can hear you scuttling around out there on the internet; packs of feral tenants, slavering and cackling as the rents on craigslist sink ever lower, heedless of the landlords you have broken: kindly, decent family men who built this city brick by brick with their [...]
Read More..>>The Job You Save May Be Your Own
Posted on June 9, 2006 - Filed Under Money, The Man Stickin It To Us, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Bank of America lays off workers to be replaced by overseas employees. If the dead men walking don’t train their replacemetns, ix-nay on the everance-say ay-pay. Shirley Norton, a BofA spokeswoman, confirmed that while workers aren’t being explicitly told they have to train their replacements or risk losing severance pay, they are being instructed that [...]
Read More..>>Tienes comfort?
Posted on June 7, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Money, Politics, Race, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
A few years ago, I visited Chile with my family after graduating from college. After landing in Santiago and paying my $50 Reciprocal Visa Fee, literally the first words out of my mouth were “¿Donde esta el baño”, putting my four years of high-school Spanish to good use. It didn’t take me long to also [...]
Read More..>>Today’s Conspiracy Theory
Posted on June 2, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Money, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
At first, I thought that the surprising increase of Homeland Security Cash to Omaha (and other urban areas) was a simple way to buy some vote-love in the Heartland. But then why lower the amount for obvious terrorist targets like NYC and DC? It’s not as if there is X amount of dollars — so [...]
Read More..>>Brilliant!
Posted on May 25, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Politics, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
“A regional advertising campaign touting Omaha as a summer vacation spot will have to wait until after the Fourth of July.” I think I could think of better ways to spend $450,000.
Read More..>>Is This Just Fantasy?
Posted on May 22, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Perception, Sports, Statistics | 2 Comments
Coming up on one of my favorite podcasts “Open Source” 56, .406, 755 — baseball’s record hit streak, batting average, and home run total: numbers at the intersection of history, myth, memory and, now, at the heart of a lawsuit between ball players and their fantasy fans. Because from these numbers has grown a side [...]
Read More..>>Virtual Reality-Based Community?
Posted on May 18, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Robot Brains, Tempests In Teacups, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Have you heard of Second Life? I think it’s like Sim City meets Dungeons and Dragons + MySpace all rolled into one. Forget the clowns…bring on the lawyers!!! …the dispute could test the relevance to virtual worlds of existing laws. “Linden Lab is still obligated to honour real-world contract law and consumer law, even if [...]
Read More..>>$12,000,000 worth of non-guilt
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Money, Music, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Universal music, despite claims of no wrong-doing, has settled with the New York Attorney General to pay $12,000,000 after investigations into their payoyla schemes. Apparently, a number of the people begging for Nick Lachey, Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, and Lindsay Lohan (among others) were on the take. In other (presumably lower-stakes) pay-for-play news, [...]
Read More..>>I /read/ the books from here to Albuquerque…
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Kids These Days, Money | Leave a Comment
… to get the Ice Cube scholarship.
Read More..>>Inflation, My Ass!
Posted on May 3, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Pain, Sports | Leave a Comment
“in case you were wondering what loyalty to the Royals is going for these days, it’s somewhere around $278.47.“
Read More..>>Quakes
Posted on April 26, 2006 - Filed Under Death, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Round these parts, there has been a lot of attention given to the 100 year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. As it should be. However, in not a single documentary, “Are we ready?” piece or event coverage did I hear any mention of the earthquake disaster last fall, though it seemed to [...]
Read More..>>Billboard Liberation Front
Posted on April 17, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Money, Politics | Leave a Comment
I see the Billboard Liberation Front has a blog. Set your feedreaders now. Digging through their archives, they have the “Lord of War” improvement done near Zeitgeist last year. Turns out BLF didn’t do it … we can thank Citizens for the Betterment of Billboards* for that one, but they do point out the previously [...]
Read More..>>Going to the Track
Posted on April 7, 2006 - Filed Under Drinking, Money, Statistics | 1 Comment
Tomorrow marks my first ever trip to the horsetrack. Any advice / tips that can be sent my way will be gladly accepted. My current strategy is to bet horses that sound like the most likely choice for an ODB alter-ego nom de rap.
Read More..>>Chef Bogusardee?
Posted on April 6, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Food, Kids These Days, Money, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Child porn may be the $20,000,000,000 industry, but “‘Italian-sounding’ products now rake in some six billion dollars in sales while the genuine articles only make about two billion dollars”. So what is an “Italian-sounding” product? The article focuses mostly on fake sauces & cheeses with alliterative ire: The USA is now churning out 1.7 million [...]
Read More..>>I’m Gonna Touch Her All Over Her Body
Posted on March 22, 2006 - Filed Under Food, Money | Leave a Comment
Business lunch, date rape … or both? As awkward as it can be to be in the car with a stranger, it’s an intimate setting, and [he or she] will share with you.
Read More..>>Next: Roto Prouster, Down the Drain?
Posted on March 9, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Money | Leave a Comment
And who says Americans aren’t edumacated? Where else can you kick off a conference presentation on how to target the marketing of air conditioning and related products/services towards women with a little Proust? As my Texas grandmother used to say: “Now, don’t y’all throw out that baby with the bath water.” And, as Marcel Proust [...]
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