Holy FUCK!  Did you watch Steve Jobs’ presentation at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference?? It’s 1981 all over again.  MTV was seen as a sideshow.  A marginal effort reaching few homes that wouldn’t impact the mainstream music business. But that thesis was WRONG!  MTV REVOLUTIONIZED the music business.  But in order to play, you had to […]

From a thirtysomething female friend of mine: I am sure you have already read this, being the instigator of the fabulousness of geekdom for the past umpteen years…but I definitely think these geeky guys have become the football jocks of this genration–the "popular" girls are gravitating toward them in high school–a true reversal of fortune […]

So I’m sitting in the urologist’s office reading "Freakonomics" about conventional wisdom. First the authors start off with the concept of asking questions.  It is said those questions that have not been asked are not going to yield interesting answers.  That all the GOOD questions have been pondered again and again.  The goal is to […]

Something’s happening in Apple land.  CONSTANTLY! The company is about to blow up video on the Web.  Hell did you see in iTunes 4.8 there’s a button to show video FULL SCREEN??  What, you mean you didn’t download 4.8??  Are you living in the WINDOWS WORLD, where to upgrade your computer is akin to bungee […]