Sweet. Apple is planning a Denver-based Apple store. Actually, it’s going to be in Littleton, a suburn of Denver (remember Columbine?):
The latest spot is in Littleton, Colo., where Apple is planning a 6,500-square-foot store, according to the March issue of Shopping Centers Today, a publication of the International Council of Shopping Centers trade group.
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This page has some links to the major ad banner networks opt out pages… those are the assholes spamming you with 50 fucking cookies so they can track you everytime you load a page at *MOST* major websites. I have been experimenting with having cookies off and/or asking to accept them and I must say it’s a PAIN IN THE FUCKING ASS… anyway, this site’s links seem to be a very useful way to keep most of the larger ad tracking/marketing companies off your desktop.
By the way, the only company who’s opt-out feature didn’t work was of course, DoubleClick: the largest of all those corporations.
Wanna know why ‘The Sopranos’ is so good? Check it: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/02/arts/02TVWK.html Note: NYTimes login required. This is probably the first time I’ve actually planned on watching TV 3 days in advance.
News from VeriSign, the people that control .org among other things.
“The agreement calls for .org to be ultimately returned to the exclusive use of non-profit organizations. Although .org stands for organization, anyone could currently register such names.
“Officials have yet to determine what would happen to names already claimed by companies and individuals under .org. Existing owners may have to give them up ‘after some appropriate transition period.'”
So what happens to sites like this? And what exacly is an ‘appropriate transition period’?
So my TiBook G4 ships tomorrow. Fucking sweet.
It occurs to me that the movie “eyes wide shut”, about a secret society whose members- all of privilege and wealth- gather to engage in ritualistic nihilism and (sometimes violently) defend their organization from both scrutiny and infiltration, was stanley kubrik’s last great joke on us all.
With it being in the news lately, it recently wandered through the dusty field that is my brain that he managed to recruit two of the biggest stars in the world to star in a movie that, while based on a short story that surely didn’t intend to do so, perfectly depicts the money-based faith corporation that is Scientology.
And he got Tom Cruise to come on TV after Kubrick passed away and defend the
picture’s
artistic statement.
Fuckin’ beautiful.
MSNBC has been hacked. Pretty good job. Link via MetaFilter.
For too long, military planners have been denied the use of the supernatural in attempting to protect American citizens from attack, Bush declared today in a speech to the National Association of Amateur Submarine Captains. There is no reason why we cannot maintain a healthy separation of church and state while still calling on divine intervention for the Pentagon budget.
Heh. Here’s a screenshot (105k) of it, if they take it down.
The Mormon Church has just released the bank records of thousands of people freed just after the Civil War. I find this to be really interesting because it opens the window for millions of Americans to look back at their geneology, which may have been shrouded in a haze. The entire database is available really inexpensively as well, which makes this all the more valuable. This really peaked my interest because about a month ago my parents sent me a huge book tracing my own family tree. Although no one was famous, its still really interesting.
I’m just curious why the Mormon Church undertook this enormous effort, they seem to have no real relation to the issue at hand. I think it is a really noble thing to do though.
For example, you’re sitting in a taxi traveling up 6th Avenue when the cab passes by a Starbucks. Suddenly, your cell phone rings. Starbucks is offering you a 50-cent discount on a Mochaccino if you come in right away. But in a recent cab ride through the Big Apple, Catlett said he noticed there is a Starbucks every two or three blocks.
Right. So I’d get to PAY by the minute for ads to be CALLED INTO MY PHONE? Wonder-fucking-ful. And what if you LIVE right next to a Starbucks? What then? Why can’t marketers and advertisers just, for once, leave something alone? I mean cell phones are pretty intimate.. far too personal for it to be acceptable to be called like this. I was reading tech news from Yahoo! wirelessly in a cafe at lunch today, and I actually could pay attention to the story. You know why? There’s not banner ads yet in the wireless internet. If I get any coupons called to me, I’m going to flip out..
