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Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos
Topic: Miscellaneous 3:29 pm EST, Feb 19, 2008

Really neat article with old tech logos. And stories. Like this:

The first Apple logo was a complex picture of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. The logo was inscribed: "Newton … A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone." It was designed by Ronald Wayne, who along with Wozniak and Jobs, actually founded Apple Computer. In 1976, after only working for two weeks at Apple, Wayne relinquished his stock (10% of the company) for a one-time payment of $800 because he thought Apple was too risky!


(Market cap of Apple then: $8k; today: $108b)

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos


Toshiba loses face but saves money in DVD defeat | Reuters
Topic: Miscellaneous 11:53 am EST, Feb 19, 2008

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp will have to swallow its pride, exiting from its DVD war with Sony, but analysts say it's a smart move to cut its losses now rather than later.

This has been in the works for a while, but only today it occured to me...

Did Sony just win a format war?!

I may have to revise my assumptions about our land war prospects in Asia...

Toshiba loses face but saves money in DVD defeat | Reuters


Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal: The past tense of looming
Topic: Miscellaneous 10:46 am EDT, Nov  3, 2007

Hi Neil.

I was wondering if the looming writer's strike has the potential to impact any of your projects.

-Mike
Aurora, CO

More than looming. It has loomed, and I am now On Strike. I've never been On Strike before...

And yes, it impacts some of my projects.

Interesting view of the WGA action from a superstar writer and active blogger.

Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman's Journal: The past tense of looming


Farm Fetish
Topic: Society 12:11 pm EDT, Oct 25, 2007

They send a reporter to literally Middle America, and surprise, discover that they don't much care for them Hollywood movies. Suuuurrr-prise!

But one chunk of this report, to me, is symptomatic of a larger issue that grinds my molars.

ANDERSON: We stopped by the Lebanon [Kansas -- ed.] hotspot, Ladow's Market, where one local told us Hollywood just can't relate to a farming way of life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They've never been back in here to know what it's like to actually have to make a living doing this.

You know what, Unidentified Male? You're right. I don't know what it's like to have to make a living farming. NOBODY DOES.

...

Four million people in the US play World of Warcraft. And yet, do I ever hear:

ANDERSON: We stopped by the gates of Ogrimmar in Durotar, on the east coast of Kalimdor, where one local told us Hollywood just can't relate to the level-grinding life.

UNIDENTIFIED ORC: They've never been back here, questing Razormane or Drygulch Ravine, y'know ... or farming for Peacebloom and Silverleaf. They're out of touch.

No. No I do not.

Farm Fetish


RE: Rome's Trevi Fountain Gets Dyed Red
Topic: Arts 9:38 am EDT, Oct 23, 2007

CypherGhost wrote:



Vandals dyed the Trevi fountain red in protest of some issue over the city's film festival.

Trading satellites for substance
Let spectators pay their way
We'll invade the Trevi Fountain
Now that everyone must pay
Mama and babies mother tragedy
Babies mothers tragedy

RE: Rome's Trevi Fountain Gets Dyed Red


A Song For Lindsay Lohan
Topic: Miscellaneous 6:53 pm EDT, Sep  9, 2007

Perez Hilton highlighted a song/performance by Tori Amos about Lindsey Lohan. Brilliant.

When I was 21 do you think I had a bag of cocaine
in my car?

If I did - if I did
You’d never know it because it would have been hidden
I’m not stupid.
But why are so many 21-year old millionaires so stupid?
Stupid and cute.
But stupid - I don’t know.

Let’s just say
When I was 26 (or seven - or eight)
And I was a billionairess
What would I have done?
Many naughty things.
Many, many, many naughty things.
But I would have had a DRIVER!

‘Cuz I’m not stupid, no.

A Song For Lindsay Lohan


Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions
Topic: Science 10:25 am EDT, Aug 22, 2007

What percentage of your ancestors were men?

No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly.

Great lecture

Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions


CRACKED.com - 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons
Topic: Miscellaneous 8:54 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2007

CARTOON: Popeye
LESSON: Spinach is good for you.
Sure, it doesn’t taste as good as candy, ice cream or opium, but it’s full of essential vitamins and minerals that’ll make your muscles explode like battleship cannons. If you want to triumph over the bullying Blutos of the world and win the affections of your own lovely, leggy Olive Oyl, pound a can of spinach at least once a day. Or put it in your corncob pipe and smoke it, like everybody’s favorite ornery, mumbling sailorman. Toot toot!
How it affected us as adults: You only need to look at the steroid scandal rocking Major League Baseball to see that Popeye raised a generation that is willing to use performance enhancers. Also, it should be pointed out that Olive Oyl was the first anorexic sex symbol.

LMFAO!~

CRACKED.com - 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons


YouTube - Jesse Joyce on Pittsburgh Tunnel Traffic
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:15 am EDT, Jul 25, 2007

Standup comic on a funny story about driving in tunnels in Pittsburgh (I generally avoid them).

YouTube - Jesse Joyce on Pittsburgh Tunnel Traffic


Frank Lloyd Wright's Duncan House ready for visitors
Topic: Miscellaneous 8:50 pm EDT, Jun 17, 2007

Built in a Lisle, Ill., in 1957 for Donald and Elizabeth Duncan, the Duncan House was deconstructed in 2004 and reassembled over the past 12 months near Acme in Westmoreland County as part of Polymath Park Resort. The retreat also includes two homes by Wright apprentice Peter Berndtson -- the Balter House and the Blum House, both built in the 1960s for Pittsburgh businessmen.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Duncan House ready for visitors


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