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Entries for December 2002
RIAA add press release form screenshot
RIAA add press release form screenshot. and no, I didn’t actually add or modify any press releases.
Top 10 seriously flawed games of all time
Top 10 seriously flawed games of all time. #1 features a naked General George Custer
Handbag piracy
An article in the Boston Globe talks about handbag piracy. A senior VP at Coach says that they seize about $50 million worth of counterfeits each year, about 3% of the total amount produced.
As with music, movies, and software, handbag piracy isn’t the huge problem that the manufacturers would have us believe. Here’s why:
- Very few of the people purchasing the knockoffs for $25 would purchase the originals at upwards of $300 apiece. Different audiences.
- Fake bags can function as free advertising for the real thing. If you’re seeing that cute Kate Spade bag everywhere, you might want to pop into Barney’s and get one.
- Knockoffs act as “gateway handbags”. Young women who buy fake Louis Vuitton bags on their just-out-of-college budget might be more inclined to buy the real thing as their income increases. As with many expensive goods and services, once you get a taste of luxury, the habit is difficult to break.
Related reading: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution by Tim O’Reilly.
public access TV over TCP/IP
public access TV over TCP/IP. didn’t the camgirls and camboys invent realtime vlogging several years ago?
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society. by David Sloan Wilson
I wanna be an astronaut
Adam Greenfield takes astronaut lessons:
“Flying out of Incheon today, on our way back to Tokyo, our flight hit an unexpected void just as I climbed out of my seat to let Nurri into the aisle, and dropped what must have been hundreds, if not thousands, of feet of altitude in seconds. For a brief but endless interval, we - alone among the passengers - found ourselves free of the grip of gravity, Nurri actually floating all the way up to the cabin ceiling before the (auto?)pilot found a layer of clear air and we settled back to the deck.”
Trilingual weblog
Trilingual weblog. simultaneous postings in Dutch, English, and Portuguese
These photos of Paris make me homesick for it
These photos of Paris make me homesick for it. that reminds me, must post my own Paris pix soon
Crossword puzzles for nerds
Crossword puzzles for nerds. and to think I forgot what “1 if A>B, 0 if A=B, -1 if A
The Perpetual War Portfolio
“The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war. The stocks were selected on the basis of popular product lines, strong political connections and lobbying efforts, and paid-for access to key Congressional decision makers.”
The PWP is up 3.25% since its inception on 12/2/02, compared to a 4.68% drop in the S&P 500. The five companies included in the index are Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Alliant Techsystems.
Segways selling well @ Amazon
Segways selling well @ Amazon. but no specific sales rank listed at Amazon
coming soon: Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out
coming soon: Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. I read a preview copy several months ago…good stuff
Blogs topple Lott? Hmmm.
Blogs topple Lott? Hmmm.. doesn’t really matter if they did or not, it will go down into history as having happened that way. maybe those bloggers should do some of that “journalism” to see if it really happened that way.
Take-out standards
New York has take-out down to a science. When you purchase food to take with you for immediate consumption, you can be sure of three things when it is handed to you:
- your food will be placed in a paper or plastic bag
- plenty of napkins
- and if you purchase a cold, non-alcoholic beverage, a straw
In other parts of the country, straws are seldom distributed, napkins might be the customer’s responsibility, and you might get stuck with an unwieldy styrofoam container. In NYC, you get all three, all the time, no matter where you go.
US strategy: divert attention of citizenry with
US strategy: divert attention of citizenry with petty political squabbling (Lott), leaving them free to start Muslim concentration camps in So. Cal.. let’s round up all the Texans instead…
Prada is paralyzed by the Web
Prada is paralyzed by the Web. they have no idea what to do with their site
Prep star scores 61 to honor grandfather
Prep star scores 61 to honor grandfather. one point for each year he was alive
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