So “Windows. Life without walls” is the campaign slogan. I can already hear what a Seinfeld not paid by Microsoft would say in his monologue: “If you live a life without walls- why on earth would you need windows?”
— Jan, Mississippi

This election isn’t American Idol or some other reality show where you just choose someone for President because you like them or you can see a little of you in them. This election should be about ideas and who’s best able to implement them. 

From Valleywag.com: Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!

Microsoft’s version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates’s company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company.

These ads were horrible.

Microsoft has no clue how to market the company hence this new marketing roulette.  The problem these days for Microsoft is that they’re completely reactionary now, trying to catch up in areas where they’ve been soundly beaten.

It really helps to have a product innovative enough to be worth talking about.  Not just another copy.

Related story:
From The Huffington Post: Jerry Seinfeld: Microsoft’s New $10 Million Pitchman

From MacRumors.com: Commuters: Get Extra Sleep with iNap

Ever wanted to get some sleep during a train ride, or a quick powernap on the bus to work? You either hoped to wake just in time not to miss your station, or set an alarm to wake you far too early… Let iNap wake you when you get close to your stop!

The application uses the iPhone GPS to wake you when you arrive at or within a certain distance before arriving at your destination.  Pretty cool.

Gas here in Cincinnati has been $3.99 since the wind storm blew through the city on Sunday.  Most places now seem to have power and no shortage of gas, but the prices are still pretty much $3.99.  I have a feeling that $3.99 was chosen because it was the largest amount they could raise prices without seeming to be gouging customers.

From NYTimes.com: Making America Stupid
Op-Ed Piece by Thomas L. Friedman

Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”

Too often in politics it seems like you have to choose sides, even if your side doesn’t really make any sense.

From NYTimes.com: Fiorina Sets off Flap, Saying Palin Not Ready for Big Business

“Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard,” Ms. Fiorina was asked.

“No, I don’t,” Ms. Fiorina said.
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Later in the day, Ms. Fiorina defended her comment on MSNBC by adding others to the list of people who could not run Hewlett-Packard either: Mr. Obama, Joe Biden and, also, John McCain.

You’d probably have to add Carly Fiorina to the list of people who couldn’t run Hewlett-Packard either.

The major difference between being CEO and President of the United States.  As CEO, you’re actually accountable for failure.

From NYTimes.com: Toilet – paper researchers create 3 – ply tissue

Yes, there is such a thing as a toilet-paper researcher. And a team of them at Georgia Pacific’s Innovation Institute in Neenah has come up with a three-ply version of its Quilted Northern product.
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The company touts the toilet tissue as ”ultra-soft” and says it plans to market the product to women 45 and older who view their bathroom as a ”sanctuary for quality time.”

I can understand a nice warm bathtub as being a “sanctuary for quality time”, but not the toilet and toilet paper.  But, I’m not and will not be a 45 and older woman, so I guess I’ll never know.

I’m Wood Corps Palin, what’s your name?

Sarah Palin baby name generator (via CityKin)

From TV Barn: Forget Tina Fey. Sarah Palin’s worst nightmare may be Jay Leno

Here’s something I mentioned last week. For some reason the Secret Service revealed this. Sarah Palin’s Secret Service code name is “danali.” Turns out danali is an old Eskimo word that means Dan Quayle.
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Today the Secret Service revealed that Sarah Palin’s Secret Service code name is “denali.” Here’s my question, what’s the secret part? I mean if the Secret Service is going to give you a Secret Service code name, shouldn’t they keep it a secret? Why not just call her Sarah?

They also revealed that Sarah’s husband Todd, who works in the oil field…His Secret Service code name is “driller.” I guess they figured Bill Clinton wasn’t using it anymore.

Read the article for more Jay Leno monologues.