This means I’m the most productive employee ever. I’m going to show this study to my employers and ask for a raise.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090402/lf_nm_life/us_work_internet
Category Archives: BTW
Store Closings
Paul Bogan has a piece on the failure of big box retail, followed by a chilling list of chains with store closings. Notables (to me, at least) include Barbecues Galore, Dell (their kiosks?), Loews, Office Depot, Sprint/Nextel, and Starbucks. Check it out, the list is huge! If this keeps up, that $79 for Amazon Prime will easily be worth it.
Sony, Meet Patches
I just did a system update on my PS3 in anticipation of Street Fighter IV. It took 45 minutes. If anything goes wrong while updating, you’re likely to have an unusable system. Does no one at Sony know about patches?
When you think authentic Chinese food, what name comes to mind? That’s right! Sullivan: the name you’ve come to trust for authentic Chinese food.
Visit our sister restaurants at O’Grady’s Fine Italian Dining and McDonald’s Ethiopian Cuisine.
Democrats, Spending, and Taxes
The spotlight on Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Charles Rangel, and Timothy Geithner has finally answered the question, “Why aren’t Democrats doing more to lower taxes?” Because they don’t pay them!
Crack Team Guides
I’ve added a guide section (look to the left) and inaugurated it with a Barbecue and Grilling Equipment Buyer’s Guide. You can leave comments on guide pages just like any other post. I hope you find it useful.
New MacBook Pro
So they released the new MacBook Pro, claiming it’s “engineered to standards that don’t even exist yet.” Really? Hey Apple, how about – gasp! – conforming to a standard that does exist? It’s called Blu-ray, and if you want to be taken at all seriously as a video editing and motion graphics platform (or even a purveyor of modern consumer electronics) you’ll get your hardware and OS developers working on it so you can add it to the 17″ model (whenever that gets updated…).
YouTube Comment Censor
YouTube comments are notorious for being so mind-numbingly stupid that they cause more brain damage than huffing paint. If you can’t stop yourself from reading them, use the YouTube Comment Snob plugin for Firefox and save a few brain cells for the videos to destroy.
Michael Bay’s The Dark Knight
What if Michael Bay wrote the screenplay for The Dark Knight? A hilarious exploration on what that would look like. It’s uncannily – and sadly – spot on.
LiveScribe Pen
This pen would have been really useful in college (click on the videos at the bottom of the page). These days I don’t take notes often, but I imagine it would be quite useful if I had a lot of face-to-face client meetings.
UPDATE: There’s a better video at ZDNet.