2020
Surprisingly, China actually benefits from the perception that its vendors are government stooges. [Ray Le Maistre/Light Reading]
Boston-area natives Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Rachel Dratch and David “Big Papi” Ortiz in a wicked good commercial for Smart Park for the Hyundai Sonata.
PR pitch of the day: “Parents find sex education conversations easier than technology conversations.”
Because unlike USB connectors, with sex it’s easy to figure out which direction it should be facing when you stick it in.
Panasonic ad, 1970 via
This trailer for "Spenser Confidential" looks great!
The Netflix movie coming March 6 stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston “Black Panther” Duke, and Alan Arkin.
I wasn’t sure about the movie after reading on Wikipedia that it’s only very loosely based on one of the Spenser books and merely “uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker.” I’m a huge fan of the novels, and I was afraid this would be travesty.
But the preview looks great. It has some hints of the novels and the Parker characters, and that’s all – but that’s enough. It looks like it’s going to be its own thing.
A few months ago we re-watched Beverly Hills Cop I and II, and I rewatched Midnight Run. And I’ve seen 48 HRS many times, also Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. I was commenting a few weeks ago that they don’t make action-buddy movies like that anymore. Well, looks like they did this time.
Juniper Returns to Growth – No Thanks to Service Providers lightreading.com My latest on Light Reading: Juniper returned to growth in its fourth financial quarter, but cloud and enterprise had to carry the stumbling service provider sector.
You look like you’re having a tough day so here is the Addams Family dancing to Joy Division’s “Disorder."
Cory Doctorow: Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement boingboing.net
The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won’t speak to another human until Monday’ theguardian.com
Paula Cocozza: “For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent.”
The iPad is fantastic but also disappointing daringfireball.net
Great short essay by John Gruber. Among other things, he perfectly captures why iPad split screen, slideover and multitasking confuse the jeebers out of me and I almost always don’t bother.
Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad politico.com
Only Monday and we already have the headline of the week.
Trump Impeachment: A Ukraine Smoking Gun Exposes Republicans bloomberg.com The White House knew Bolton’s book was coming, but they let it blindside their Republican Congressional allies anyway.
Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez was suspended after tweeting a link to an article about Kobe Bryant’s rape case, following up with screenshots of the hate mail and death threats she received. vox.com
Is Corona Beer experiencing the AIDS/Ayds effect? [boingboing.net]
Mark Frauenfelder: Ayds was an appetite-suppressant candy popular in the 1930s-80s with the misfortune to have the same name as a fatal disease. The unfortunate nomenclature proved fatal to Ayds.
Seeing reports about a woman physicist who developed a theory of gravity that, if proven, would fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.
If only there were a song to commemorate this event, a Broadway type anthem about female empowerment and defying gravity.