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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 […]
My iMedia interview with Kodak’s Jeff Hayzlett
I interviewed Jeff Hayzlett, who keynoted at last month’s ad:tech San Francisco, and the interview has been published today in iMedia.
I think it came out rather well.
“I like it better than Google…” (Cue the Darth Vader music.)
At our last week’s ad:tech SF, Drew Ianni premiered some screenshots of SearchMe, a new engine financed by, among others, Mark Kvamme of Sequoia Capital. (It’s an open beta so go sign up right away.)
SearchMe, a bit like the Windows Vista operating system, is a highly graphical search engine that displays screenshots of results pages […]

