Condi: Crack the Whip Cool
Tina Brown in the Washington Post on Condi Rice’s evolution to cool… For sure, it’s great to see how Condi has changed now that she’s out from under. Like Hillary Clinton’s confidence when she escaped from the suffocation of being first lady, Condi’s has begun to unfurl like a flag. […]
A Museum Quality Pension Plan for Artists
Some times you come across ideas so clever you wish you had thought of them. Moti Scriberg, as described in the most recent issue of Wired, is an artist who has devised a pension plan for artists, using the value of their peer’s donated artwork in the future as a […]
A Sleek Little Jet in Every Driveway
Last night’s chill brought a cozy fire and some fun on television. The History Channel’s “Modern Marvels” was about pilots who live with their planes. There are now more than 400 communities where residents park their private planes next to their houses, and taxi right out to the runway. A […]
How Long Does it Take to Read the Newspaper?
The Washington Post ran a story about the volunteers at “Washington Ear” who read every day’s newspaper for the benefit of the blind. It takes about 24-25 hours to read every single word, including each panel of each comic, and every television listing. “There’s a bit of skill to reading […]
Actually, Sex Doesn’t Sell.
Movies about sex are usually box office flops. says CNN. Last year, five of the top-10-grossing movies were PG. Of the top 25, only four were rated R. “Increasingly, if a movie is rated R,” says producer John Goldwyn, “audiences won’t go.” Outside of the sophisticated urban art-house milieu, most […]
An Interesting Fellow
This morning brought bright sunlight. And when we drove up to the office door, there was a guy waiting for us holding magazines. “Uh, oh, I thought. Here must be the ad sales guy, who, seeing the feature story in Business West, is ready to try to get me on […]
The Siren Call of Television
Matt from ABCNews 40 called, wanting us to come on and speak about Internet issues. It is always fun to oblige, but by this time I did ask to be on at 5:30 pm and not earlier. The subject is a new website called zoominfo.com and its ramifications for internet […]