Archives for December 2005
Some time ago, I blogged to ya about Talk Digger. Frédérick Giasson’s has improved the service and released Talk Digger 2.0, and let me tell you: this is a Web app you should know about. Talk Digger is the simplest way to understand, in a single view, the activity on the Web surrounding a given URL.
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The man who implants an RFID chip in himself is deluded. Crazy. Ack. I have little else to say about that. Ack.
test test test
It occurred to me today that shaving should be easier. Every days, billions of men spend between three and ten minutes shaving. This process it not particularly efficient.
Think about it. Gillette spent over a billion dollars on the Mach3 razor. That’s one billion freaking dollars on R&D and initial marketing push. From the horse’s mouth:
Gillette spent more than $750 million in manufacturing capital and research and development to bring MACH3™ - the first and only shaving system with three progressively aligned blades to provide men with a closer shave in fewer strokes with less irritation - to market. The Company is investing more than $300 million to bring the message of MACH3’s superior performance to consumers worldwide.
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NashvilleKnifeShop has shaving sets as well as straight razors and safety razors. Find these, as well as shaving sets and skin care products.
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I have one reaction: so? Think about shaving today versus shaving 20 years ago. How about shaving today versus shaving 2000 years ago? We’ve got companies spending billions and my faced is still nicked up.
Basically, I want some kinda super duper laser machine that I can pass over my skin and be done with this facial hair thing in about 5 seconds every morning. IS THAT TO MUCH TO ASK? Hot damn, we can put a man on the moon but we can’t have a laser shaving system? We can put a digital copy of the Library of Congress on a chip the size of my nostril but we can’t get me a better shaving system? WHY CAN’T WE SURPASS THE ROMANS?
k i’m done
The time between Christmas and New Year’s is kinda of a luxurious, lazy, lethargic No Man’s Land of vacation time. We tend to forget about it until we’re knee-deep in it, but it’s pretty great. If you do have to work during this time, it’s not all bad, because pretty much zero work gets done during this period (unless you work in garbage hauling or retail).
I wonder: is there a name for this period?
Lovely little tale from the always entertaining Coyote Blog:
In September, the State of California sent me a check for $81 as a tax refund. … Then, in December, the State of California sent me a notice that the $81 was in error, and I needed to send it back. … But here is the good part- they claim I owe interest and penalties for holding their $81 since September, despite the fact they sent me the check out of the blue and it was their error.
If the era of big government is over, I guess the era of stupid government is not. Or is that phrase redundant?
Google is riding high. Its stock price soars. It releases new products, tosses out press releases, basks in the warm light of praise from bamboozled techies Web-wide.
But Google’s fall is coming. Google will be slain, and it will be slain by the law.
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