I like Amazon a lot. So much so that one year they gave me a coffee mug for Christmas because I bought so much smurf from them.

But their home page leaves a lot to be desired, especially when compared to Google's. Sure, Amazon's home page is awfully busy, presenting me with tons of smurf in which I have no interest. There is a compelling, Zen ( Read more... )

I watched Murderball over the weekend. I originally dropped it in my Netflix queue because it is about a form of rugby ( Read more... )

I read an athlete who is short and stout describe herself as "vertically challenged" but "horizontally gifted".

( Rant on the silliness of major sports )

Adam Carolla posits that the only explanation for Pat Robertson is that Robertson is a 34-year-old performance artist named Mark who lives in a tri-level outside Oakland with his life partner.

From Kawasaki-san:

"Live long and kick butt."

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Why have I not seen the term "Macintel" bandied about? Surely one of those clever digerati has thought of it!

Kawasaki-san writes "An innovator doesn't worry about shipping an innovative product with elements of crappiness if it's truly innovative" and "I'm saying it's okay to ship crap--I'm not saying that it's okay to stay crappy".

I really, really disagree. No company should ever ship crap. Maybe the product has an incomplete feature set (e.g., only ( Read more... )

Good
Apple has shipped my new toy.

Bad
Apple shipped my new toy via FedEx.

Ugly
FedEx claims they will deliver it on Wednesday, the one day when there will be a few hours where no one will be available to sign for it.

So I expect the same behavior from them as when Apple shipped the iBook via them. FedEx will claim that they tried to deliver it ( Read more... )