Dean Landolt

I hadn’t noticed (I avoid ‘em like the plague) — but apparently Starbucks has decided to return to its roots with it’s old topless, spread eagle mermaid logo. Boobies!

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Masnick on the rumored Y!AOL marriage to keep MS at bay:
That seems sort of like trying to keep a wild animal from eating you by covering yourself with feces.
If Google was pleased with their competitive prospects before, they must be ecstatic now…
Not only would an AOL/Yahoo merger appear to be less of a competitive worry […]

Egads. Microsoft offering $44 bil for Yahoo! eh? Smells an awful lot like desperation. Perhaps it’s not the same as the AOL/TW boondoggle as far as mismatching industries go, but it’s certainly a mismatched culture. As Kevin Dangoor notes:
Years ago, Microsoft bought HotMail. At the time, HotMail’s servers were all running FreeBSD. Somewhere along […]

…and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated.
[via /.]
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If three graphic designers can recreate d-day for practically free…

Hollywood, you’re proper fucked!
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So here I am, on hold with Sprint. I just reupped my contract last night and got myself a new fangled, craptastic phone — yeah, they don’t offer any normal phones anymore. What thanks do I get for signing on for another two years? They cut service off to my current phone…brilliant. No wonder they’re […]

I’m terrible at running a meeting.
I’m too ADD to keep myself on-topic, let alone a handful of adult children, each with their own agenda. Of course, I also hate agendas — a list of bullet-points religiously followed does dickall to bring legitimate issues or ideas to the forefront.
There has to be a balance — a […]

Interesting sentiment from Koyono…
At Koyono quality is implicit. From materials of construction to specifications and processes on how we design and manufacture, we are obsessed with providing you the highest quality products, on time, the first time.
I’ve spent a bit of time lately thinking about messaging — mostly how incredibly worthless it all is. It’s […]

According to Gartner, France’s famed 35 hour workweek (finally being loosened up by Sarkozy) may yet look like a miserable slog to us all in a few short years. Hell, it’s almost possible today, though the choice may be between bike or bus rather than of Benz or Beamer…
It’s all about choice, though. As self-sustenance […]

Doc Searls (hater of surveys), in response to an SAP survey:
Web 2.0 is what we’ll call the next crash.
Amen, Doc!
The more useful distinction is between the Live Web and the Static Web. The Live Web today is branching off of the Static Web. Much of what we call ’social’ happens there, though I dislike the […]

I can’t believe they actually did it…

I love it when companies finally get it — commercials are content! If your ads are worth watching, you’ll get a lot of eyeballs. The days of the captive audience are over. Get with it.
Here’s an ad — crazy as it may be — that cost just $500 to […]

My girlfriend just passed along an interesting link: the anti-fast culture in food…
Sure, I hate processed food just like the next guy, but it led to an even more interesting place: the Slow Company idea.
Most businesses see speed of growth as a measure of success, and aggressive growth is typically encouraged. In contrast, slow company […]

I can’t understand why the greenies keep building a false dichotomy between looking out for the bottom line and being clean — they both mean green…
Saving energy means saving money — you couldn’t ask for a better selling point, especially as energy prices continue to climb. We don’t need alarmism to lower our carbon levels […]

Going way back to 1946, from Economics In One Lesson…
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics […]

I just realized this site was down and put in a support case to the host. Before I even got the automated confirmation email, Dreamhost support had patched up apache and had me online. Now that’s service!
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Some days…

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So I’m back from Riviera Maya [relatively] unscathed. I’ll get some shots up in the gallery soon, but take my word for it, the place was frickin’ beautiful! Whoever designed the layout and grounds of this place is a true artisan. That said, it’s a shame it seems to be run by a bunch of […]

Interesting take from Hugh Macleod of gapingvoid…
As we move from proprietary to open worlds, we are seeing another transition. The customer is becoming the partner. And not a day too soon.
He’s got a tough road ahead of him, and good luck to him. Let’s hope this kind of fresh perspective can rub off on his […]

I finally found the time to do a little following up on ProjectVRM (if you haven’t heard of it, it’s worth reading up on). Doc Searls has a great article up on VRM and a public commons — or more specifically, a more efficient market for getting support. The general idea is simple, but Doc’s […]

This is pretty interesting stuff (words I doubt I’ve ever uttered when discussing monetary policy). My vote’s for the first reason given for why the two-buck is back in fashion — currency inflation…
In 2005, depository institutions ordered $122 million in $2 notes, according to Federal Reserve statistics. That is more than double the average […]