Archives for the 'Culture' Category
Short Post: Mac/PC/Palm Calendar Woes
Why is it impossible to find a program that will empower my wife Kathi and I to synchronize our datebooks across:
My Palm Treo 700p
My Dell desktop
My Dell laptop
Kathi’s Palm PDA
Kathi’s Mac iBook?
A web calendar
This doesn’t seem like an impossible dream, but so far it is.
Does anybody out there have an idea on this? I’d […]
More on “I like big BOOKS and I cannot lie”
Note: this is a continuation of my last post.
Digging into this image:
The joke hinges on a simple substitution of the word “books” for “butts,” but that substitution creates a collision of two opposite sensibilities. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s song is about a public, joyous, Rabelaisian and loudly-proclaimed love of the bodily and sensual– complete with dancing and […]
Harry Potter meets Sir Mix-A-Lot
I recently ran across this funny t-shirt design, which some college friends pointed out in an email list we all share, and it has stuck with me as a wonderful example of where fat old mass culture and our new, more nimble and infinitely more fragmented niche or slice culture intersect.
Take a look:
The t-shirt is […]
Obama’s Falstaff: Why the Senator should banish Jeremiah Wright
Listening to Senator Barack Obama’s measured, careful and slowly increasing rhetorical acts of distancing himself from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s dizzying flights of intemperance and just-plain craziness, I keep finding myself wanting to hear more bite from Obama. Obama came close when he mentioned, yesterday, that Rev. Wright “certainly wasn’t thinking of me” when he […]
The Internet Hits Adolescence: What’s Next?
This came out in this morning’s ad:tech Daily, and I wanted to share it with you here:
Last year the publicly-available internet turned 13.
If we think of the early banner ad, spam and the pervasive pop-up as interactive advertising’s first baby steps, then we might also think of the pop-up blocker and the spam filter as […]
