Archive for June, 2004

Loving Day

« 8 June 2004 | 16:37 | America, diary, law, politics | No Comments »

Loving Day is June 12th. Check out the “legal map”. Amazing.
via Gen.

Candy Apples

« 8 June 2004 | 10:55 | geekery, macnuttery, music | No Comments »

Apple is on roll, and there’s no stopping in sight. Egad!
The Express requires Apple’s basestation if you want to use it as a repeater, but a wireless repeater for a fraction of the cost of what’s on the market now? Almost too good to be true; I think it’s time to retrofit the [...]

Connect

« 7 June 2004 | 12:06 | music, sonystyle | No Comments »

Connect “…falls far from Apple’s iTunes.”
Maybe no news is good news in this space.

Nobu Tokyo

« 7 June 2004 | 2:16 | Japan, food, tokyo life | 2 Comments »

Had a fantastic evening at Nobu in Tokyo. Never been to the Manhattan one, but if the menu is anything like it is here, I can see why reservations are tough to make. The rather inconvenient location here though made for a quiet and patron-sparse evening. Dewi Sukarno sat at the next [...]

Bubblegeneration

« 4 June 2004 | 11:37 | biznomics, scitech | No Comments »

Bubblegeneration, by Umair, always has inspiring if not eloquently put thoughts. Love his most recent post, from which I quote:
Like many media industries today, the games industry is dying a death by incrementalism. That’s because of it’s economics: as the industry’s matured, publishers (suits and droids) have iron-clad economic control over what gets produced [...]

Rocker says iTunes rocks

« 3 June 2004 | 1:45 | biznomics, macnuttery, media, music | No Comments »

PBS Frontline has an interesting interview with music legend David Crosby. Choice quote:
I think the only way to sell records that I know about now that does look really, really, really promising is iTunes. I think Apple is the smartest company in the country, and they are doing something brilliant.

Reinstating the Draft?

« 2 June 2004 | 2:36 | America, law, politics | No Comments »

When I first heard about it, I surely thought it was a joke. I’m … speechless…

iPod competitors

« 1 June 2004 | 11:19 | Japan, biznomics, music, salaryman, sonystyle, worklife | No Comments »

Actually, this should read “Microsoft, Sonys Announce iPod Competitors”. It’s almost humorous how analogous Sony is to Cerberus.

McSony

« 1 June 2004 | 11:12 | biznomics, sonystyle | No Comments »

Sony links up with McDonald’s.
Heard it a few months ago. Still think it’s a bad idea.