First off, I’d like to welcome WAL*MART—er, Walmart—to 2005! It seems the neighborhood-munching behemoth’s nearly two decade old logo wasn’t friendly enough to represent the company in this brave new world. Second, I wonder how long it took to develop this logo. Ten minutes? Fifteen? It probably took a year of focus groups consisting of [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, advertising, business, design on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
It must really suck to make a computer-generated guesstimate at a future car model just days before the real deal gets leaked onto the internet. If your Photoshop handiwork is pretty close to the real deal, that helps lessen the blow, but still….
Here’s what Autobild came up with, seen just a few days ago at [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on August 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
I bought a cheap pair of glasses when my last pair broke because I needed new glasses ASAP, but I wanted to look for a pair that really suited me. See, when you’re buying eyeglasses because you actually need them and not for fashion reasons, you walk into one of several eyeglass stores and you’re [...]
Filed under: business, rants on August 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve got IKEA on the brain. I came across this name generator while perusing Apartment Therapy. Here’s what I got when I typed my (nick)name in:
Filed under: business, humor on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
Can you spot the real Albertsons?
There are two Albertsons supermarkets near my home. I know exactly where they are, but out of curiosity I decided to go to albertsons.com and search their locations. Instead of a list of stores, I was greeted with the notice below:
“The ZIP Code that you have entered is in an [...]
Filed under: business, thoughts on June 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently, the Associated Press, in a noble effort to appear as much as an obsolete dinosaur as possible, has rules barring bloggers from citing more than four words out of an AP article without paying fees. See the deets at Boing Boing.
This got me thinking: What would AP headlines look like were everything past the [...]
Filed under: business, humor, news on June 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adapted from school a project write-up from last semester — When you add several ingredients together, the result will either become nothing more than a hodgepodge of dissimilar ingredients, or something new and equal to much more than the sum of its parts. The latter case is a transformation. It’s the difference between the tacked-on [...]
Filed under: business, school, technology on June 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
While I’m satisfied with the cheap wood laminate flooring that I inherited when I bought my home, I’ve been waiting for the time when I’ve got the extra change needed to get some real hardwood floors installed. And being, a tree-hugging liberal, the first thing that came to mind was, of course, bamboo.
Sure, bamboo, unlike [...]
Filed under: business, design, environment, living on June 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
You might (or not) remember Chevrolet’s concept car from a few years back, the Nomad. It never made it to production, but a similar car might thanks to Murat Günak, former design boss of the Volkswagen Group.
Günak co-founded a new auto company, Mindset and made the Six50, whose purpose is to buck the trend toward [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, business, design, technology on June 10th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, at this year’s WWDC, the Apple folks announced that .Mac is being replaced with a new service called Mobile Me. They’re still charging $99 a year for 20 GB storage, push e-mail, and and over-the-air syncing between iPhone and Mac or (gasp) Windows PCs…you know, mostly the stuff that Windows Mobile and BlackBerry [...]
Filed under: advertising, business, technology on June 9th, 2008 | No Comments »