Kurt Cobain in a 1992 diary entry: “Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend.”
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Eighty-eight comments (many of them useful) on Jason Kottke’s off to New York thread. Oh, and Jason: Island Burgers. Must go to Island Burgers.
Fake copy application by Andre Torrez.
On Madison Avenue, at lunchtime, on the east side of the street, between 56th and 54th Streets: my friends’ friend’s ex-fiance, Peter, who unsurprisingly did not recognize me; a fair-skinned, red-haired woman adorned with a bindi; and Carlos Santana. It was an entertaining walk.
Great piece: Branding in The Morning News, all about ridiculously avant-garde company names of the late 20th century.
“âAquentâ actually does have a meaning in English: Itâs a geological term for poorly drained human-altered soils.”
I will be in my employer’s London office next week. Thus, I will be in London for a few days. Funny how that works.
I arrive Sunday morning, October 27, and stay until midday Wednesday. I hope to meet some of them thar Internet peoples while I’m there (already have lunch plans Sunday). Give a shout if you’re there, too.
Steven Den Beste has an explanation of cell phone technologies with damning evidence against GSM.
Stewart Alsop writes an advocacy of CDMA as an eventual worldwide success.
Meanwhile, AT&T just introduced GSM in the U.S., calling it “is beefing up their mMode service.”
Is my next phone obsolete before I even buy it?
Brian, 12:34 p.m. “Why Charley?”
David, 1:29 p.m. “It’s in honor of the Charlotte Inn, where we got engaged (and from where we returned to find out he’d been born). I wouldn’t let Amy name a male dog Charlotte, so Charley it is.”
Brian, 2:01 p.m. “Charley was also the name of the dog in ‘The Final Countdown,’ not the song, but the movie where the aircraft carrier goes back in time to Pearl Harbor. Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen and Charles Durning.”
David’s brain, 2:49 p.m. “DUH-duh-DEH-dah, duh-duh-DUH-dah-duh-dah-DEH….”
Chez Daniel by Rosecrans Baldwin in The Morning News. “Itâs like going to a bachelor party where one of the guys drinking with you is a member of Sonic Youth, and he mentions, over your third or fourth beer, that heâs read your Web site, and actually liked it. Well, okay. Yes: Heâs a dude, like any dude at the bachelor party, and he even skips out on the karaoke part. But heâs in Sonic Youth.”
AOL is eliminating third-party pop-up ads, ostensibly because their users don’t like them. So how come they’re still using pop-ups for their own internal services?
Also fun in this press release is AOL CEO Jonathan Miller’s use of the term “member experience” rather than “user experience.”