“Gina Pell is easily San Francisco’s most glamorous Internet executive.” (Sunset Magazine)
She’s actually pretty damn hot even when compared to those outside of the internet exec ranks.
Although, if your willing to look beyond glamour and explore more of a John Belushi during his last moments at Chateau Marmount look, then this might be more your speed...
So while putting together the various toys and nursery furniture items for Herschel’s room I’ve come across what I think could be a long term plot by the Chinese.
There are two factors to consider.
The first is obvious. Just about every item in the nursery was made in China.
The second is slightly more subtle. Almost everything I’ve put together has only called for a single tool. A phillips screwdriver. Need to put together a vibrating seat? Get a phillips screwdriver. Want to add batteries to a medium-sized toy? Grab a screwdriver. When our changing station wall-unit slash dresser arrived in 8 massive boxes, I was shocked to learn the entire job (for which I had set aside 4-6 weeks of total attention) required only 16 screws. That’s it.
So at this point, the plot should be obvious to you. But just in case, it goes something like this:
Several years from now, during a particularly contentious international debate, the Chinese government orders the detonation of silent bombs in cities and towns across America and boom, just like that, with an involuntary turn of the screw, all of our shit falls apart.
Homeland Security tip: Superglue.
1. Webby’s are so over.
2. Web Design and Development can’t be reduced to a competition.
3. It’s all just a marketing trick like every other awards show.
4. Isn’t there already a way to judge sites called traffic?
5. There are like 500 categories…
6. How can you compare start-ups with massive companies in the same category?
7. That’s the award show where JLo wore that dress, isn’t it?
8. Best Insurance Site? Anyone smell a sponsorship-driven category?
9. MySpace vs JDate? Why do the Jews always faces odds like that?
10. Great news folks. I just learned that Rollyo has been nominated for a Webby Award. And all kidding aside, with Passover right around the corner, I needed the boost…
All it really took was a little shove by Steve Jobs and suddenly mainstream content owners are starting to make sense.
ABC just anounced that they will stream top series over the web and that the whole thing will be supported by ads. You may have heard of that model. Why it took so long to move it on over to the web is anyone’s guess.
A funny thing happened when the creative types behind Scrubs decided to give up hope for the show’s popular success and instead just let all the weirdness hang out…
The numbers went up. And what was envisioned as an in your face last hurrah has turned into an almost certain next season.
The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium.
Taken totally out of context, one could make the argument that this is a somewhat reasonable strategic course. Gather intel, get human resources on the ground, plan for any eventuality…
But given the mindset and past performance of the Bush inner circle, this is incredibly worrisome stuff.
