So the CBC lost the use of the theme for “Hockey Night in Canada” and while no one else will say it I will, shame on Dolores Claman. That’s right, shame. CBC paid for that song many times over. She received royalties every time it played and after negotiations broke …
I was watching live blog updates of Steve Job’s presentation at WWDC and a thought occured to me. If Apple keeps naming their software after endangered cats, perhaps they could spend a little money, say one percent of total sales to protect that animal. The next OS is called snow …
“May you live in interesting times.” – Old Chinese Curse A couple of weeks ago some friends were over and we began discussing China. While most of them were not Chinese, a few were and a couple more, myself included, had been to China for extended periods of time. This …
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. – Robert Frost
Art died in April 1917. We can thank Marcel Duchamp for that. His urinal in Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917, signed R. Mutt was the final nail in the coffin. I bring this up now because other artists are still kicking that corpse. Take the London Duo Jake …
There are many things that one needs to explain to clients when discussing the implementation of a metrics plan. I think all of these presentations should start with “WE DON’T GUESS” This is incredibly important to state. We may infer, suggest and suppose, but we do not guess. All of …
The government is still trying to take away your iPod! Well not really they are just trying to make it shittier to use while still allowing device shifting (think CD to iTunes to iPod) and time shifting devices like TiVo and PVR. However, if you purchase a CD with digital …