This frown really is a smile turned upside down.
From the NYTimes.com: Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry
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March 2008
From ABCNews.com: Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions
In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.
It seems like Hillary’s work as a director at Wal-Mart would have received more scrutiny during the battle for Ohio, especially with the union workers in the Northern part of the state. This story is from the end of January and I never heard about it until today. Maybe I just missed it.
From CNN.com: Girl seen in Clinton’s ‘3 a.m.’ ad supports Obama
Casey Knowles didn’t much like a recent campaign commercial for Hillary Clinton — even though she’s in it as a sleeping 8-year-old.
After all, she about to turn 18 now and is a big supporter of Barack Obama.
No, not a scene from the Matrix. Better than the Matrix. It’s the police in Pakistan shooting tear gas at a lawyer.
From the NYTimes: Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf
From NYTimes.com: Dancers in the Crowd Bring Back ‘Thriller’
By this week, the videos had together been viewed more than a million times, to the pleasure of the music company Sony BMG, which staged the scenes to promote the 25th anniversary of “Thriller,” the Michael Jackson album that featured the zombie dance in a graveyard video.
This is pretty brilliant marketing. Probably cooler than having Michael Jackson doing it himself. Here are three of the videos referred to in the story.
From CNN.com: BBQ-smoker-turned-‘Robocop’ chases off drug dealers
It’s a barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water about 20 feet.
“He’s a neighborhood vigilante,” says Meredith, “and when he came up with this — you know, I call it Robocop — I said, ‘Praise God.’ “
Anita Beatty, the director of the shelter, is suspicious of the barbecue-smoker robot. “I just think the whole ‘Robocop’ spraying people is a little freaky.’
Forget about Street Fighter! I’d love to see this as a movie!
Street Fighter is one of the greatest arcade games of all time. A truly skill based game, the controls of Street Fighter were so precise that if you learned strategy and perfected the moves, you’d be nearly unbeatable.
As good as the game was, its story was razor thin, so I was surprised when they decided to make a movie of it. Movies based off of video games are usually pretty bad, and Street Fighter with Jean-Claude Van Damme is no exception. That’s why it’s doubly surprising to see that they’re going at it again! 2009 will be bringing us Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. This movie does not bode well for the career trajectory of Smallville actress Kristen Kreuk who plays Chun-li.
From Business Week: Apple Goes Corporate
With shares down 35%, Jobs & Co. have a union between the consumer-friendly iPhone and Corporate America in mind
I think it’s pretty safe to say that current share price is not one of the reasons Apple is trying to work on corporate markets. Most technology stocks have been hit by the slowing economy and Apple has been affected a little more since it’s tremendous run up last year.
William Markey, president of telecom consultancy RelevantC, is skeptical of Apple’s prospects. “What’s the business case for the iPhone? Being able to listen to music on your [work] cell phone?” he says.
After all this time, this analyst still doesn’t get what the iPhone is about. Music isn’t the key to the iPhone’s success, it’s accessing the web. With the iPhone, Apple is transforming the mobile internet like it did the music industry before it. Before the iPhone there were phones that could access the internet, but not with the ease of use that the iPhone can. Many of the phones were only capable of showing the most basic of pages designed with mobile phones in mind.
The iPhone was designed with the web in mind. The large screen space and the software keyboard that pops up only when needed allows for the best web experience. By removing the keyboard and creating a new gesturing language, Apple has stepped beyond just providing easy access to email like the Blackberry. This is where the future of the mobile internet lies.
From Fortune.com: The trouble with Steve Jobs
An interesting read. Most revealing is that Jobs was skeptical of mainstream surgery for his pancreatic cancer so he employed an alternative treatment for his cancer for 9 months before finally having surgery.