Wednesday, September 18, 2002|
Product placement comes to The Sims. Intel and McDonald's have paid millions to have their products appear in the next version of The Sims. [Boing Boing Blog] 6:08:52 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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The peppered moth story reminds me of a Participaction commercial sequence run by the Canadian government in the early seventies. It featured, among other things, a vigorous, white-haired man running while the narrator explained that the average sixty year old Swede was in better shape than the average 30 year old Canadian. The not-so-subtle message, of course, was that we should get off our keesters and exercise more often. I found out many years later there wasn't a shred of evidence to support such an assertion - it was just dreamed up by some ad agency. Somehow I don't think Mr. Mill would approve. 3:49:25 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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When science lied
It was a world-famous example of evolution in action, and it was rigged. How the case of the peppered moth proved that "scientific fact" sometimes isn't either.
[Salon Headlines]
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Who's Running the Digital Show?
Imagine a home entertainment system that works like an iMac: plug it in, turn it on and it's show time. It's coming. But in exchange, digital media companies want control over what consumers do with content. By Brad King. [Wired News]
I have one of these. I like to call it "The TV". Wait, that's not quite right. My iMac has had two motherboard failures in the last nine weeks while my TV hasn't so much as blinked in 14 years. 8:56:15 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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More Frontier 9 screenshots:
virtual domain hosting and redirects.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog] 8:50:55 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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As I was writing that last bit (that ain't writing, that's typing!) I heard the garbage truck roll by. As in "move on to the next house after not picking up the garbage I forgot to put out". This happens way too often here, like two times out of five. You'd think a grown man could learn that garbage pickup is every Wednesday around 8:30, but apparently you'd be wrong. But then Wednesday follows Tuesday and, as everyone knows, Tuesday is music night. This entails plenty of singing, playing, laughing and socializing but no so much sleeping. Oh well. 8:43:07 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Amazon.ca throws down a gauntlet to Chapters.Indigo
"After failing to persuade Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps to ban Amazon.com Inc. from setting up shop in Canada, Indigo and a group of Canadian booksellers demanded a federal court review of the heritage department decision that allowed the Seattle-based bookseller to continue operating Amazon.ca."
[National Post: Financial Post]
Oh yeah that's the way to do business. Somebody call the waaambulance. Normally I'd favour a Canadian retailer, but not in Ms. Reisman's case. Keep in mind this is the woman who banned Mein Kampf from her stores. Not that I recommend it but it's an important historical document and banning it amounts to book-burning. 8:33:14 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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This little bit of high quality spam was filtered by my copy of Post Armor this morning:
Message From: williams.t@caramail.com To: null Subject:Doesn't that header just make you want pop that baby open and start reading? 8:19:23 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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