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Archive for: June, 2010
Early adopters save everyone money
Many people mistake me for an early adopter, but compared to Apple fanboys I’m totally not. 🙂
WHY would anyone rush to buy a product knowing full well that it would be cheaper — and probably better — in a matter of months?
Hundreds of thousands of iPad buyers did just that last month. Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, crowed that in the first 28 days on the market, Apple sold one million iPads. He found it remarkable that buyers snatched up this new slate computer at twice the fervid pace of the first iPhone.
But what is truly remarkable about this surge in consumption is that early adopters — those who simply have to own a new gadget right away — cheerfully exhibited what might seem to be irrational behavior. These ardent consumers will stand in long lines, if that’s what it takes, to get an overpriced gadget ahead of everyone else they know.
Used BCD396T for $200 of Craigslist – What a great deal!
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Buying a new TV? Learn How Monitor Companies Cook Their Specs
Anyone who’s shopping for a new TV/Monitor and using specs to help them decide which to buy, should stop and read this first….
Take everything you think you know about displays and throw it out the window. It’s time for a clinic on what display specs really mean-brace yourself for the alarming truth
Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor Companies Cook Their Specs
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The latest Lexus LFA promo video and Top Gear Segment
I can’t wait for this car to come out! I’ve been waiting since 2006 when I first heard about it!
Turns out Top Gear has already done a segment on it…
The most significant habit of creative people is solitude
Now I don’t feel so bad for my anti-social stints… 🙂
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May
Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic that fascinates me endlessly — how does it work? What habits to creative people do that makes them so successful at creativity?
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Yup – those are screens in the *rear* headrests
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Worst Drinks in America 2010
These almost made me gag… ugh!
Over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem.
We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like “high-fructose corn syrup” and “ascorbic acid” on the labels. We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat – akin to an ice cream or a candy bar – and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. (The average American now drinks about a gallon of soda a week!) Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words “vitamin” or “energy” stamped on their labels. And, in just the last decade or so, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying things with vaguely European names, like “mocha latte,” or swapped out coffee altogether for something called “energy drinks,” which taste exactly like what would happen if a crazed pastry chef hijacked a truckload of Smarties and drove it into a battery acid factory. And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health.
America’s supermarket aisles and drive-thru menus are awash in empty liquid calories. We’ve updated our list of worst offenders. Survive the rising tide by eliminating these, the country’s most damaging drinkables, from your beverage regiment.
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