digital rubbish: Archive

Nov 1st

Google Local Business Hijacking: Microsoft... →

Oct 31st

Happy Halloween →

San Francisco Zombie Mob

Oct 31st

Time Ranks 50 Top World Changing Inventions...

And the winner is 23andMe, a genetic testing service co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. 23andMe markets a genetic test that uses saliva to determine a person’s predisposition to 90 inheritable traits. Really? 23andMe didn’t invent the saliva test, they just market it at an affordable price ($399). This is the most important “World Changing”...

Oct 30th

Ten Awesome Costumes You Slackers Can Get Done By... →

Can I just go as the lame office guy who refuses to wear a Halloween costume to work on Friday??

Oct 30th

Moved by a Crescent →

An interesting account of what motivated Colin Powell to publicly endorse Obama.

Oct 30th

GM Lobbies for a Piece of the $700 Billion Pie

GM and Chrysler and in talks for a merger to try and stop the downward spiral both companies have been going through this year. But that’s not preventing GM from lobbying in Washington for some of that $700 billion in handouts aid. Wait, wasn’t that money earmarked for financial institutions only? GM argues that they’re too big to fail, and that if they did thousands would lose...

Oct 29th

Oct 28th

What Makes for a Good Blog? →

Oct 28th

TechCrunch Layoff Tracker →

Oct 28th

19,683 Tech Layoffs And Counting →

Oct 28th

US helicopter raid inside Syria →

Now we’re invading Syria??

Oct 28th

Indiana Telemarketers Walk Off Job Rather Than... →

Oct 28th

Oct 22nd

Very Considerate Vandals Target Obama Supporter In... →

Oct 21st

Linux Ecosystem worth $25 billion →

from InternetNews: The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner

Oct 21st

Yahoo! to cut 20% of workforce? →

Oct 21st

“What are your top priorities as Google’s CFO? Look, I’ve just arrived. [But]...”

– Google’s new CFO, Patrick Pichette, from CanadianBusiness.com (http://rubyurl.com/mp03)

Oct 21st

Twitter and Yammer Test Dot-Com Business Models →

I’m not sure how Yammer is considered to have monetized their business with only 4,000 customers paying $1 per month.

Oct 21st

Difficult Times, Difficult Decisions | Zillow®... →

Zillow cuts workforce by 25% despite growth in business.

Oct 18th

Ev Williams didn't Twitter that he fired his CEO →

Oct 18th

Internet Trends: The vanity Facebook ad →

Oct 17th

How Your Beer Bought John McCain's $500 Loafers →

Uncovering the government subsidies behind Cindy McCain’s family fortune Interesting article on where McCain’s money comes from and how he’s benefitted from government subsidies, powerful lobbyists and anti-competitive practices.

Oct 17th

Buy American. I Am. →

Warren Buffet makes his case for why now is a great time to invest in American stocks.

Oct 17th

Joe the Plumber is an interesting case study in how we define patriotism. He says he supports the military, but he doesn’t pay his taxes. How does he suppose we pay for our military, and the war in Afghanistan and Iraq without taxes? How does he propose paying for the public education his 13 year old son receives without taxes? If our men and women in Iraq aren’t able to get their...

Oct 17th

Who's this Joe the Plumber? →

Apparently, he doesn’t have a license and doesn’t pay his taxes. Sounds like the perfect role model for Republicans.

Oct 17th

Oct 16th

Great advice on getting your house in order →

Oct 15th

Marketing budgets are getting slashed and the first things to go are those annoying in-game ads. http://gawker.com/5063745/investment-in-bullshit-ads-plummets

Oct 15th

10 Ways to Avoid Hipster Baby Names →

Oct 15th

Drunk, obnoxious and loud group of 50-something women behind me are baby talking. Turned iPod up to maximum volume and still no good… ear drums bleeding… can’t take this anymore.

Oct 14th

Bush: How Low Can He Go?

I just read that George Bush’s approval rating is now 23%, matching Nixon’s all time low. He only has one more record to beat - Truman’s low of 22% - to own the record of the president with the lowest approval rating ever.

Oct 13th