Category: Design

  • I admit to be fascinated by as Jimmy Buffet says, the Bamboo Steamer. He wrote that song as tribute to all the cable tv junk that gets sold on the weekends. Surely we could think of the next great  Billy Mays or Ron Popeii cut the wine bottle to make a glass pasta maker or…

  •  Dubai World said Uncle on  Nov 25 asking for an extension on debt payments totaling some $80 B. Dubai does not have any oil in particular, the oil is in the neighboring countries. So who's in charge now. We have followed Dubai's failure to follow through on a similar project in Las Vegas, City Center.…

  • Alfred HItchcock often filmed his movies in famous locations and settings using The US Open Tennis match for Two Men on a Train and Mt Rushmore for North by Northwest. To Catch a Thief is set in Monaco when most Americans knew little about such spots. This is where Grace Kelly met Prince Ranier which…

  • Murdoch's Newscorp owns the WSJ, it is considering listing WSJ articles only on MSFT Bing. Bing, huh?  This is the latest in a never ending series of catch up attempts by MSFT, opening MSFT stores mimicing Apple is another.  Google is the run away winner with 65% of searches, even with Yahoo, another failed effort,…

  • Okay the truth is out, the dancing stars have the lean sprayed on. It certainly beats the going to the gym right, and doing it the hard way! Read this wsj article on just how far make-up has come. 

  • Regular readers are aware that ATT decided to disconnect my att.net e mail last friday morning, it is working again but I lost whatever got sent from friday morning to monday morning. If I did not respond to an e mail in that period it is because I was not able to do so. If…

  • Debt-ridden MGM could be sold 12 November 2009 4:52 AM, PST | The Guardian – Film News | See recent The Guardian – Film News news » The studio with the famous lion logo and library of James Bond films appears to be headed for the auction block to recoup some $3.7bn in debt The MGM lion, a star…

  • These are just too good. Photographs from readers in http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2008/08/reader-photo-contest-photography Note how the single person perched on the rock gives perspective for the entire vastness the photographer wants to emphasize. 

  • I have advocated making Design a centerpiece of an MBA program. Here is an article that manufacturers are turning to Business Week's list of Design schools for a competition, click on the list of BW Design Schools to see what I mean. 

  • Yesterday i speculated that the Kindle lacked an internet ability and it would need that to catch on.  I also speculated that the tablet might re emerge as that product. Well whaddya know? Apple and a host of other elec manufacturers are racing to do just that. I really don't see the necessity of allowing one…