December 2006
Return to Sender
I noticed something interesting at the Bowling Green, Kentucky Best Buy just after Christmas. The returns table was loaded with mp3 players of nearly every imaginable stripe, but not a single iPod. I wonder how many of these were gifts that were returned because they simply weren’t iPods, and Johnny only wants an iPod because that’s what all his friends have. As Michael Gartenberg...
79. Slate-colored Junco
Slate-colored Junco Photo by trisheroverton. Similar to the Oregon Juncos we have at our feeder back in California, this variant is a common visitor to the McGuffey’s feeder ibn Kentucky. (via 100 Birds)
iTunes Collapse: ORLY?
Engadget has an interesting headline today: “iTunes sales “collapsing,” blanket licensing to succeed?” It’s (loosely) based on an analyst’s report from Forrester. I haven’t gotten a copy of the Forrester report yet, but this is the kind of thing that makes me not take blogs seriously. I don’t think the Engadget reporter understood the Forrester...
My $100 Gamble
I have a bet with Ken Kurson. Ken is a longtime financial columnist for Esquire, and published the late, great Green magazine, which I used to do a bit of writing for. He’s also a Mac user, and a tech enthusiast, and a generally astute guy. At a Giants game last summer, we made a bet. I bet Ken $100 1 that in one year, Apple would still own at least 70 percent of the mp3 player and...
24. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Goddamn Cormac McCarthy can write. I think I finished this book in under 24 hours. I was compelled to finish it. It was one of his most disturbing works, yet with one of the most satisfying endings of any book I’ve ever read. I finished it a few weeks ago, and it haunts me still.
Buy this book.
(via Book Blog)