Well, it’s not the Jetta. It’s two women in a Passat blindsided by an SUV as they discuss Volkswagen’s controversial Jetta commercials that depict… well… the same thing: A commercial referencing a commercial to make real more real. Too meta for me.
YouTube got a lot of flack for making a recent deal with NBC, so perhaps it was not NBC’s prerogative to lampoon it. Still, you gotta respect the network’s moxie for going head on at the controversy with this video: As long as the root cause isn’t killing anyone, this is exactly what a company…
You know you’ve created something good when your fans create a crop circle to honor your product. Yesterday, I read a nice piece from Business Week about how Mozilla is leveraging grassroots and guerilla tactics in its bid to become mainstream. There are dotcoms, and there are dot orgs. Dot org means there’s a mission,…
My next deathmatch post was going to compare these two music recommendation services. I’ve used both pandora and last.fm for a little while, and I’ve been taking some notes. I love them both, but I have my favorite. Thing is, someone else already wrote such a good piece on this topic. It’s way better than…
Ok, this isn’t exactly a new topic, but some thought-provoking (and entertaining) nuggets have come across the wire recently. This photo nicely sums up my long series of rants about Apple’s one-button mouse. Several people sent me this parody of an exercise whereby Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging. I’m not sure who’s responsible for My…
Did that get your attention? That’s the name of the movie I saw last night, as part of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. It’s a documentary about the word, not a portrayal of the act, so don’t be offended. Or be offended. That’s the power of fuck I suppose. After indulging in Monday’s all-you-can-eat…
I had brunch at The Ramp this morning with my friend Bee. The Ramp has been my default Sunday post-laundromat stop for the past couple of weeks (and for the month of May, when I was last in SF). The weather has been perfect, and The Ramp offers some of the best outdoor seating in…
Today I discovered the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible, a website that strives to address the following catch-22: …faith tells [believers] they should read the Bible, but by reading the Bible they endanger their faith. The SAB’s annotations flag things like * Injustice * Absurdity * Cruelty and Violence * Intolerance * Contradictions * Family Values *…
Driving into the city on I-80 today, I saw a billboard for BAJobs.com touting the website’s “better interface”. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen User Experience (UX) highlighted so prominently to sell a website. Does this mean the market recognizes the narrowing distinction between websites and software? Does it mean UX is leaving…
On Anca’s blog tonight, I came across this H.L. Mencken quote… Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted…