One of the best recent embodiments of “words mean things” comes from an unlikely source: the new-business magazine Context. We all have too little poetry in our lives, especially this time of year.
Month: December 2000 (Page 2 of 2)
Just got back from “Vertical Limit” with Chris O’Donnell. The closest I can liken this experience to is having an iron smacked into your skull for two hours straight. Nitro, avalanches, pulmonary edema, frozen corpses, cut climbing ropes, exploding nitro, broken fingers, giant crevasses, leaking nitro, coughing blood, slicing helicopter blades. And did I mention the nitro? Mountain climbers are nuts. “Because it’s there” be damned.
Don’t miss this incredibly Zen election parody at my new favorite site, Edge.org. They also have a scholarly debate, too, if that’s more your speed.
I want to introduce you to my latest online obsession: Zangelding. The subject is too vast and complex for me to go into a lot of detail here, but you can take a look at a great beginner’s guide to Zangelding. Enjoy.
As this sad and shameful little election ‘crisis’ comes to a long-awaited end, I thought I would propose a Christmas gift for our pseudo-President.
My colleague John Mosey has dubbed me the “Anti-Mosey,” and at the risk of alienating the few readers of this page, I’ve included a link to his personal site so you can see how appropriate this title is.
“The whole charade of letting one’s children climb into a tarted-up drunk’s lap at Macy’s to bark out their greedy consumer object-lust is bogus and unwarranted, and the chilling result of corporate brainwashing.”
-Salon’s Cintra Wilson, with the best anti-consumer Christmas quote yet.
P.S. Why does Santa have to see me while I’m sleeping?
Chris Whittle tried it years ago with Channel One. It didn’t work then, and it doesn’t work now. When will they learn?
The flap over the Palm Beach butterfly ballot just reinforces my long-held belief that not enough thought is put into design at any level. When’s the last time you stepped into a hotel bathroom shower and knew instantly how to 1) turn on the water, 2) make it hotter or colder, and 3) turn on the shower? I thought so.
One of my favorite books, The Design of Everyday Things, is fascinating reading about doors, phones, shower assemblies, alarm clocks and other stuff that should be easy to use and understand but isn’t. No doubt the new edition will include ballots.
While I was an e-mail administrator at my previous job, urban legend e-mails sprouted like kudzu and were just as difficult to stamp out. One of my favorites was the one about KFC raising headless, legless chicken blobs in giant Matrix-like factories. Well, apparently they found the head.