A reader sent in some info regarding the ‘Hack Mac‘ image I posted a few weeks ago.
Apparently, this French dude does mockups (referred to in the email as reality hacking) of false products, ads etc. Too bad my high-school French is wearing off. Beware: the site uses Flash, and rather poorly. But check it out anyway.
I just went to Borders today, and was surprised by the increase in number of Mac-related books in the computer section, at least compared to my last visit (admittedly, that was probably 2 years ago). Although the number of Linux-oriented books was fully triple that of the Mac books. But still.
Have you installed MS Entourage with Office 2001 lately, only to have Internet Explorer crash on you every time you have them both running? I came across an easy fix for this: install Entourage or IE on a separate drive or partition, and they play nice together.
Before you read this post, just remember that I’m 21, and cut me some slack.
Okay. So today is the 20th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination, and of course there has been story after story published all over the place about what a great man he was, etc. So this has brought back a confusion that’s been lying dormant in my mind since junior high. You see, my friends at the time were all about the Beatles, and I struggled (as a 14-year old) to understand exactly what was so great about them (The Beatles, not my friends). My parents weren’t Beatles fans, even when they were around in the 60s, so I never inherited a sense of wonder like my friends did from their parents. My father was more into Jethro Tull and Black Sabbath, and that sort of thing.
So now, today, I’m asking the same sorts of questions I asked 7 years ago.. ‘What’s the big deal about The Beatles?’ ‘Why is John Lennon still worshiped, 20 years after his death?’ So I, being the resourceful youth I am, downloaded ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ via Napster, just to see what the big deal was. And I gotta admit, I still don’t see it. I mean, I understand that what they did in the 60s sounds commonplace and normal today but was on the edge then, but it just seems like the Velvet Underground was more influential than The Beatles.
So. I’m sure I’ve enraged a lot of people by this point, but I would really appreciate some perspective on this. Keep in mind, I was not around when The Beatles ‘changed the world,’ and my parents never imparted any information to me, so please, let me know what you think, and maybe some ways for me to better understand this phenomenon. Thanks.
I believe both those sites are part of a ‘viral marketing’ campaign being unleashed by the geniuses who do the ‘Buddy Lee’ Lee Dungarees denim ads. In the TV ads, Buddy Lee (the lovable doll who always wins in the end) competes against both Supergreg and Rubberburner (DJing, the former and go-cart racing, the latter). So I believe ‘Rubberburner’ refers to burning rubber in a go-cart.
I had totally forgotten about this, but when I first discovered the IHT, I sent them an email relaying my thoughts about it probably being the best site ever. I just got a response today from them, hand-typed by a human, telling me thank you, and to use it often. That’s rad. More than that, it’s k-rad.
Ill keep this simple. You *ABSOLUTELY MUST* check out Super Greg and Rubber Burner.
I just can’t figure out what kind of rubber is that jackass burning? Is that a really bad reference to safe sex (RubberBurning) or is he just smoking burnt rubber.
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Here’s the situation: you have money to burn, and you don’t know what to get your CEO for Christmas. What’s the answer to this problem? I believe that would be this $24,000 Palm V cover from Ashford.com:
…remember those special dates with this one of a kind Ashford Palm case. This case is set with over 13 carats of diamonds in 300 grams of platinum.
<Dr. Evil>Riiiiiiiiight.</Dr. Evil>
